Spring Time is Rejuvenating

The time was right at Juniper Village at Aurora as we celebrated April with a bang. Our Open House was a great success to make new friends and to create a better bond with our known friends. Easter was also a great addition to April as we joined in harmony with families and residents to celebrate this beautiful holiday through Best Friend Easter Egg Dying, Easter brunch and an egg hunt on April 23, 2011.
Also, a special visit from the Easter Bunny surely brought smiles to our community as residents reminisced about when they were younger and
remembering their Easter traditions, which they shared with the children who participated in our egg hunt. We look forward to the upcoming months to enjoy the warming of air, the changing of colors in
nature and celebrating more holidays with the ones whom we love.

Spring time is a great time to renew oneself and to help motivate us to eat and be healthy so that we may live fully throughout all seasons of life.

A Beautiful Change

Juniper Village at Aurora celebrated our newly remodeled community with an Open House on April 14, 2011. Families and friends joined us as we showed off our beautiful community with a theme of a black tie celebration. Our residents had a great time engaging with our new life skill stations where they can practice gardening, sewing, baking, holding a baby again, or working with tools; it is times like these that allow our residents to be truly engaged with what they love to do. Through this time of watching Juniper Village transform its looks, it helps us realize that although change may be a tough process to go through, we must look into the future and be able to change ourselves. Believe in yourself and know that good can come from change as we notice the beauty of flowers and trees blooming in the essence of spring.

March Happiness

March was a great month at Juniper Village at Aurora, with Fat Tuesday celebrations, art museum visits, best friend talent shows, and most of all, a St. Patrick's Day celebration.  At the best friends talent show, the staff joined with their buddy to demonstrate the amazing talents we all have.  Of course with any talent show there is friendly competition, and with that, Marlene and her best friends showed their beauty and strutted their fashion down the runway.  On St. Patrick's Day, the Irish Step Dancers performed at their best, as expected from years prior at Juniper Village, and the residents and families had a grand of a time too.  So, with Colorado getting a taste of spring, it is that time that us Coloradans know that the April snow showers just may bring our May flowers.  The blooming of flowers and the budding of trees is another aspect of spring that allows us to relate and find our treasure within.

Juniper Village: A Performer in Art & Wellbeing

Juniper Village at Aurora celebrated Fat Tuesday with a Cajun style dinner of Jambalaya and jammed out listening to Gary Sattazahn play his digital trumpet. Along with the celebration of Fat Tuesday, the
residents made Mardi Gras masks and paraded around Town Square showing
off their talented art pieces. Sometimes in order to help us explore our creativity we must wear the "masks" that give us a different
perception on how to engage with our inner selves. Juniper Village also looks forward to more ways that our community can help our
residents explore their creativity through visits to art museums and having a performer come in to give us guided imagery. Come join Juniper Village at Aurora on March 17, 2010 for our next big event; St. Patrick's Day celebration as the Irish Step Dancers put on their best performance, it's one you can't miss!

Memories Filled Juniper Village

 

Love is a feeling that can bring people together in tough, happy, or sad times; as a way to help bring our families together in a joyous fashion, Juniper Village celebrated with an Eat Your Heart Out dinner and a Valentine's Day celebration.  For our Eat Your Heart Out dinner we had a buffet of spaghetti and meatballs with an official showing of the romantic movie Lady and the Tramp.  On Valentine's Day, residents, friends, associates, and families all gathered for Sweetheart Stories at Juniper Village.  The participants shared stories of love and how each was brought together.  Some of our fondest memories are created from connecting during these gatherings where the Juniper Village mission of Nurturing the Spirit of Life is truly evident.  It is during moments such as this, in groups large or small, that we celebrate love and life and reach out and embrace our Alive in All Seasons journey.

A Valentine For You

As we step into February, Juniper Village at Aurora is dedicated towards finding a cure for Alzheimer's Disease in one of our many fund raising activities, Valentine Balloon Bouquets. Also, during the month of February our focus is on art, and how it is one of many therapies that can help awaken your passion. Throughout the years, our residents have had the pleasure of using watercolors to paint from their fondest memories to create pictures of meadows, rainbows or flowers.  An assortment of quality crafts including watercolors, pottery painting, and flower arranging have all had an impact to help engage our residents in our Connections program.  We specialize our programming for our Wellspring Residents, where we thrive in letting the residents represent who they are through Art.  Our Balloon Bouquet project is just one additional way we, as associates, give back to our community and Nurture the Spirit of Life by contributing towards a cure of Alzheimer's!

Engaging the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Engaging the mind, body, and spirit is the philosophy we live by daily at Juniper Village at Aurora.  We do this in many ways, both big and small.  One way we we engage all of our senses, is through the Red Hat Society.  In 1998, The Red Hat Society was founded by a woman who gathered a group of ladies wearing decorative red hats, purple clothing and feathered boas. Juniper Village at Aurora  formed its own Red Hat Society and our ladies love sporting the purple and red!

Another way we engage our mind, body and spirit is through our Alive in All Seasons program.  During the month of January, our Alive in All Seasons theme is music.  Our Connections Program is filled with musical events and interactive song to fill our spirit.  As we celebrate music in January, we invite you to attend a performance by Leonard Barrett, Jr. on January 25, 2011 at 3:00pm as he pays tribute to famous artists such as Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Marvin Gaye, and Frank Sinatra.