Sun Health Senior Living Archives

October 31, 2018

A Nicer Season

Two programs that brighten the holidays for others By Shanna Hogan Many of the seniors who frequent the Banner Olive Branch Senior Center in Sun City live on a fixed income and rely on the center’s meals and food boxes…

October 31, 2018

Mazel Tov

Sun Health’s ‘rabbi in residence’ officially ordained By Shanna Hogan and John Tucker Inside her unit at Grandview Terrace, 103-year-old Sybil Newman inches slowly from her dining room table to her couch. “Everything about me has become rusted,” she quips.…

October 31, 2018

Moved by the Spirit

jake wrote in 2018 October, Sun Health Senior Living with 0 comment .

Legendary comedian George Burns once said, “The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, and to have the two as close together as possible.” Fear not. This is not a sermon but…

October 30, 2018

Navy Launches a Career

jake wrote in 2018 November, Sun Health Senior Living with 0 comment .

Her interests range from fine art to world culture to human history. It sounds like heady stuff, but Rita Holton is very practical. When she earned a degree in anthropology in 1968 from George Washington University in Washington, D.C, she…

October 30, 2018

Proud to Serve

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Remembering the service of our veterans By Shanna Hogan It was 1944 — five years into World War II and a young U.S. Army pilot was soaring over Germany when a hail of gunfire suddenly pierced his plane. As the…

October 30, 2018

My Joe

jake wrote in 2018 November, Sun Health Senior Living with 0 comment .

Earlier in my career, I was the executive director of a retirement community in Mesa. When I started the job, I met a resident named Joe. It’s not polite, but with Joe’s hulking frame he reminded me of Shrek, the…

August 31, 2018

Active Aging

jake wrote in 2018 September, Sun Health Senior Living with 0 comment .

Activity adds shine to golden years By Alec Sills-Trausch To Grandview Terrace resident Nancy Paauwe, age really is “just a number.” The 84-year-old former teacher from Michigan spent much of her life hiking and biking, and today she continues to…

August 31, 2018

A Word to the ‘Whys’ Exercise is a gift

jake wrote in 2018 September, Sun Health Senior Living with 0 comment .

It’s uncanny. Almost every time I decide to take it easy in an easy chair and watch TV, invariably a news story pops up about another study touting the benefits of exercise to protect us from disease, trim our waistlines…

June 29, 2018

State of The Art

jake wrote in 2018 July, Sun Health Senior Living with 0 comment .

La Loma University’s College of Fine Arts awarded top honors By Shanna Hogan Retired engineer Lynn Snyder had not picked up a paintbrush since he was a child. But an art class at La Loma Village, where he lives, awakened…

June 29, 2018

Partners for Good

jake wrote in 2018 July, Sun Health Senior Living with 0 comment .

Congratulations to the residents and staff at La Loma Village for winning Best Practice honors at this year’s LeadingAge Arizona awards ceremony. Sun Health’s Life Care communities enjoy a longstanding connection with LeadingAge Arizona, a nonprofit that provides advocacy and…