A cohort of ten Givens Gerber Park residents celebrated their successful completion of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention National Diabetes Prevention Program on September 29th. This year-long research-based program has proven that modest lifestyle change behaviors can prevent or delay developing Type 2 diabetes in people with prediabetes or those at high risk …
It’s Resident Service Coordinator Appreciation Day, and while we appreciate the hard work our Resident Service Coordinators (RSC) do every day, we’ll take an excuse to give them a little extra love. Resident Service Coordinators assist residents by helping identify, locate, and acquire the services and support necessary to become and remain self-sufficient. Our team …
Cheryl Wallen, Director of Givens LifeMinistries and Lisa Rogers, Community Nurse successfully completed training as program leaders of the Stanford University Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. This six-week evidence based Chronic Disease Self-Management Program empowers older adults living with chronic conditions such as asthma/C.O.P.D., arthritis, back pain, diabetes, anxiety/depression, fibromyalgia, and heart disease, to recognize and …
What sticks out as a special memory from over 10 years of working here? The Eclipse Party of 2017. Building 40 opened in late 2016. The staff had worked hard to establish the community’s culture, fill apartments, and navigate our construction related issues. It had been a difficult prior 12 months and we were gearing …
It’s National Grief Awareness Day, and the best thing we can do is acknowledge it, talk about it, and know we are not alone. We all experience grief in one way or another throughout our lives. According to author on grief and grieving, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will …
On August 19th, 1998, President Ronald Regan declared August 21st, National Senior Citizens Day, as a day to recognize and celebrate the contributions of our seniors. For National Senior Citizens Day, we asked our residents to share their best life advice, from the wisest to the wittiest, since we know our residents are full of …
Do you ever feel guilty when you find yourself being idle? Sometimes just sitting and listening to the summer night noises can seem like a waste of time to some of us. But is it really? Why do we often feel if we don’t fill every minute or hour with some “productive” activity, we are …
The Golden LEAF Board of Directors has awarded $55,000 to Givens Gerber Park to be used to acquire a new van and upfit the van for MANNA Food Bank distribution. Givens Gerber Park is located in south Asheville and serves low- and middle-income seniors with 262 independent living apartments, a part of the Givens Communities …
There are few things more easily rewarding or relaxing than escaping into the world of books. Whether it’s non-fiction or fiction, we’re able to explore new ideas, challenge our perspectives, dream, wander, feel less alone, reflect, cherish, and even weep at the stories of characters and what resonates with us. It’s one of life’s simple …
20 years is a good chunk of our time. It takes 20 years to begin our journey of early adulthood, and even then, 20 (if not more) years to make mistakes, try new things, figure out who we want to be and how we want to live. If life is lived in chapters, 20 years …