Le Club de musique Java Voilà! The Java Music Club is now available in French. Chartwell recently implemented the Java Music Club in all of their over 180 retirement and long-term care homes across Canada – including Quebec. The French...
Congratulations Schlegel Villages on your recent CARF accreditation with “Exemplary Performance”! Java Music Club is honored to have played a role. Schlegel Villages newsletter. From www.facebook.com/schlegelvillages “We are pleased to announce that Schlegel Villages has been awarded a Three...
Chartwell offers a wide spectrum of seniors housing choices from independent retirement residences with the option of assisted living services to long term care. They have implemented the Java Music Club in over 180 retirement and nursing homes across...
Why should we concern ourselves with empathy? Empathy is often thought of as the ability to imagine how another person feels, to walk in their shoes, to see life through their eyes. But it is also an important behavioral...
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” Mother Theresa In a study in the American Journal of Health Promotion, Cohen-Mansfield (2014) outlines the health risks linked with loneliness, including a large number of chronic...
The ‘Golden Years’ are not always golden. A recent study conducted at the University of Waterloo investigated the prevalence of depression among older adults admitted to long-term care or nursing homes in Ontario, and it reveals some startling statistics.1...
All behaviors have meaning and aggressive behaviors have been called ‘responsive’ because research suggests that aggression is not unpredictable or meaningless, but rather often a response to something frustrating or confusing. There is an increasing awareness that responsive...
In his book, “A Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness”, Dr. James Lynch calls loneliness a silent epidemic . It is often difficult for those that are lonely to communicate. The need for meaningful human...
The Java Music Club uses an Aboriginal traditional talking stick as a part of the mutual support group program. The talking stick is passed from group member to group member and serves as a reminder to honour each person...
Walk with me…changing the culture of aging together. March 24-25, 2014. Hyatt Regency, Toronto, Canada. Join together with older adults/residents, their families, researchers, service providers and policy makers to learn with and from each other. This is the first...