On March 31, 2019, Karen Pollack, Director of Community Relations at Springhouse, was a guest speaker at the Harvard College Alzheimer’s Buddies Symposium. This was interdisciplinary conference on Alzheimer’s Disease. Her topic was entitled ”Best Practices of Caregiving.” The Keynote Speaker was Dr. Kirk Daffner from Harvard Medical School.

In May, we took a trip to Allandale Farm and then did some planting ourselves! We had a beautiful sunny spring day for our planting party. A cool breeze filled the air. Once we got working it was a welcome relief along with an ice-cold glass of refreshing lemonade.

Photographs by Ansel Adams, a re-created country estate circa 1800, Korean art featuring celadon vases, lacquer and metalwork from the 11th century–these are a few of the recent exhibitions our Allen House residents have toured on their monthly visit to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.

Wednesday means it’s “What’s Cookin’” demonstration day.  Today “OH CREPE!” Yes, they made crepes! Yummy…marscapone whip mixed with nutella created Marscapone Chocolate Hazelnut Whip and we added fresh fruit. Look how amazing these look!

Baby it’s cold outside ???? and that does a number on the skin, but nothing a little homemade vanilla lavender sugar scrub won’t fix! More from our baking and cooking group…sometimes it’s therapeutic more ways than one!    .

In our weekly cooking group: Springhouse approved football snack for the game Sunday. This was a touchdown!         .

By title we are a Senior Living Community, but how do we cultivate that sense of belonging that the word community infers? We have an incredibly diverse array of staff and residents stemming from many different backgrounds and experiences. So, We’ve created a monthly event we like to call Culture Day.

Winter blues got you down? JAZZ up your day at Springhouse! Please join us for a Pre-SuperBowl Concert by the renowned Winiker Brothers! Sunday, February 3rd 2:00 p.m. RSVP is a MUST!

Also a big thanks to Springhouse Residents: Evelyn Estridge, Fuzzy Downs and Kay Maloney View article For any questions and comments please contact: Karen Pollack at 617-971-1678 or kpollack@springhouseboston.org

Please join us in welcoming new additions to our team! Adrianna Alpaugh, our new Director of Social Services and Karen Levy, our new Independent Living Activities Facilitator and Goni Rubel Zlotnik, Activities Intern who all joined Springhouse Senior Living in September.