Evanston, IL-based Mather is taking a page out of the luxury hotel/hospitality book with the launch of a customized training program designed to support front-of-house…Read More
Thad Parton, Director of Culinary Operations at Mather, has been with the organization about a year and a half. “This is my first time in senior…Read More
With months and months of delivery service at the majority of senior living communities, food services staff have mastered the system of meal drop-offs. But…Read More
Can you imagine finishing a meal by eating the very same utensils you used to consume it? How about the ability to choose between plain,…Read More
For Life Plan Community residents, personality traits like extroversion are associated with engagement in healthy behaviors such as exercise, researchers at the Mather Institute found.…Read More
The wellness trend has taken the senior living industry by storm — but simply encouraging more healthy habits or offering one-size-fits-all wellness programs may not work. Residents…Read More
Linda Womack worries about plastic trash. She’s heard about the island of plastic waste floating in the Pacific Ocean that’s bigger than the state of…Read More
The recent results of the first of a five-year study being conducted by Chicago-based Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging and Northwestern University, found that nearly…Read More
Residents of life plan communities across the United States are generally experiencing higher levels of wellbeing than older adults living in the general population. That’s…Read More
If you’ve noticed more monarch butterflies fluttering around Evanston this summer, it’s thanks to the efforts of nature-loving locals like Joan and Tom Soper. The…Read More
Paula Ledbetter
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