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For your enjoyment, we feature a special message from our Dining Services, Health Care Services Group. It’s fall and time for pumpkins. Here are some impressive health benefits to eating pumpkin or squash. Did you know? Pumpkin is high in vitamins, minerals and low in calories. It is source of beta-carotene. Pumpkin’s antioxidant compounds are linked to

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.

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.