We welcome SPRING

Wishing all our Friends and Family a safe and  

Happy St.Patrick's Day

Defeat Diabetes Month

April 1, 2016 all-day

http://www.defeatdiabetes.org/
Defeat Diabetes Foundationbetes Foundation

Here’s a challenge: Track how many activities and good habits you can develop during  Defeat Diabetes® Month. We offer a variety of all-level physical activities, new places to go, different foods to experience and a little learning for each day of the month. This is not just for people with diabetes, so enjoy this 2016 Calendar of Activities with your entire family!

Diabetes is a life-altering and life-threatening disease. People diagnosed with the disease are at greater risk for heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, blindness, amputations, as well as incurring serious financial and emotional hardship.

Knowing the risks, recognizing the warning signs, and pursuing healthier eating habits and regular physical exercise, is critical to preventing diabetes or effectively managing the disease.

Lifestyle changes can be tough. So, we’re giving you an entire month of activities to get you started on the right track. Some of the regular activities include: Meatless Mondays, Take the Stairs Tuesday, Water Wednesday, Walk from the Back of the Parking Lot Thursday, and New Veggie Friday. Each weekend is dedicated to physical activity and getting outdoors.

Defeat Diabetes® Month is a calendar of activities, articles, downloads, tools and cartoons as well as some links to other sites with interesting information. Each day review the activities for the day and click the links to get more information or to complete the activity.

Commit to taking Defeat Diabetes® Challenges by participating in the full month of activities. You can invite family and friends to participate too!

If you don’t have diabetes, Take the Screening Test to determine your risk for developing diabetes.

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April is National Poetry Month 

Greenwood Place Assisted Living will be having fun with 
William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling,

Dr. Seuss, Psalms, to name just a few.   

How to read a poem

• Follow your ears
• Read aloud
• Become an archaeologist
• Don't skim
• Memorize
• Be Patient
• Read in crazy places
• Think Like a Poet
• Look who's talking
• Never be intimidated

Can't wait to get started 

http://allpoetry.com/column/2339540
http://academic.reed.edu/writing/paper_help/figurative_language.html
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/LiteraryTermsTOC.html#RhetLang
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/allegory.html

www.shmoop.com

Civitan Spring Fair

February 24-27, 2016

With over 15 acres of excitement to explore, Dublin’s Spring Fair has something for everyone! Take to the Civitan Fairgrounds as merry go rounds, ferris wheels, and rides for the whole family await. Open Wednesday to Friday from 6 PM - 10 PM and Saturday from 1 PM - 10 PM, kick off your St. Patrick's festivities with a smile!

 

Admission: $3.00 plus rides

Under 42" free

 

Click here for more info: Dublin Spring Fair

 

Civitan Fairgrounds

2503 Highway 257

Dublin, GA 31021

478-272-4002

February is Heart Month

Make Blood Pressure Control Your Goal

This American Heart Month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Million Hearts®–a national effort to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes in the United States by 2017–are encouraging Americans to know their blood pressure, and if it's high, to make control their goal.

Uncontrolled high blood pressure[469 KB] is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke. In fact, more than 67 million Americans have high blood pressure.1 People with high blood pressure are 4 times more likely to die from a stroke and 3 times more likely to die from heart disease, compared to those with normal blood pressure.2

High blood pressure often shows no signs or symptoms, which is why having your blood pressure checked regularly is important. It's easy to get your blood pressure checked. You can get screened at your doctor's office and drugstores or even check it yourself at home, using a home blood pressure monitor.

February 2016 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days:

1 National Freedom Day

2 Ground Hog Day

2 Candlemas

3 The Day the Music Died - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in 1959.

4 Create a Vacuum Day

4 Thank a Mailman Day

5 National Weatherman's Day

6 Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day - first Saturday of month

6 Lame Duck Day

7 Wave All you Fingers at Your Neighbor Day

7 Send a Card to a Friend Day - obviously created by a card company

7 Superbowl Sunday - Superbowl 50 date varies

8 Boy Scout Day - celebrates the birthday of scouting

8 Chinese New Years - date varies

8 Clean out Your Computer Day - second Monday of Month

8 Kite Flying Day - in the middle of winter!?!

9 Mardi Gras / Fat Tuesday - date caries

9 Toothache Day

10 Ash Wednesday - date varies

10 Umbrella Day

11 Don't Cry over Spilled Milk Day

11 Make a Friend Day

11 National Inventors Day

11 White T-Shirt Day

12 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday

12 Plum Pudding Day

13 Get a Different Name Day

14 Ferris Wheel Day

14 National Organ Donor Day

14 Valentine's Day

15 Candlemas - on the Julian Calendar

15 National Gum Drop Day

15 President's Day - third Monday of month

15 Singles Awareness Day

16 Do a Grouch a Favor Day

17 Random Acts of Kindness Day

18 National Battery Day

19 National Chocolate Mint Day

20 Cherry Pie Day

20 Hoodie Hoo Day

20 Love Your Pet Day

21 Card Reading Day

22 George Washington's Birthday

22 Be Humble Day

22 Walking the Dog Day

22 International World Thinking Day

23 International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day

23 Tennis Day

24 National Tortilla Chip Day

25 Pistol Patent Day

26 Carnival Day

26 National Pistachio Day - it's a nutty day!

26 Tell a Fairy Tale Day

27 Polar Bear Day

27 No Brainer Day - this day is for me!

28 Floral Design Day

28 Oscar Night - date varies

28 Public Sleeping Day

28 National Tooth Fairy Day - and/or August 22

29 Leap Day - it occurs in 2016, once every four years

In June of every year, we honor fathers. The first Mother's Day was celebrated in 1914, but a holiday honoring fathers did not become official until 1966, when President Lyndon Johnson declared that the third Sunday in June would be Father's Day. President Richard Nixon made this proclamation permanent in 1972. But this doesn't mean that the holiday was not celebrated before this time.

The idea for Father's Day is attributed to Sonora Dodd, who was raised by her father after her mother's death during childbirth. While listening to a sermon at church on Mother's Day, she thought about all her father had done for her and her siblings and decided fathers should have a day, too. Because Dodd's father was born in June, she encouraged churches in her area, Spokane, Wash., to honor fathers that month. The first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane in 1910.

Over the years, the idea spread, and people lobbied Congress to establish the holiday. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson, who had signed a proclamation establishing Mother's Day, approved the idea, but never signed a proclamation for it. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event to "establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations."

Johnson County Relay for Life 2015— May 15, 2015 5:00pm - May 15, 2015 5:00pm

Each year, more than 4 million people in over 20 countries raise much-needed funds and awareness to save lives from cancer through the Relay For Life movement. Help fight cancer and support the Johnson County Relay for Life!

We are all so very proud of our son James Walker who has been a fireman over at Glynn County fire department. His rescue unit is in the city limits of the historical district of Brunswick Georgia. He had a big physical test and passed: he is no longer a rookie!!!

A BIG Congratulations from all of us here at Greenwood Place Assisted Living

Happy Mothers Day

Johnson County 

Alzheimer's Support Group

NOTE CHANGE IN DATE

The Johnson County Alzheimer's Support Group will meet Tuesday, April 21 at 7:00P.M. at the Johnson County Senior Citizens' Center.  Will be discussing ways to keep your memory strong, if you have Alzheimer's or you don't.  We look forward to seeing you on the 21st.

Alzheimer's materials will be available.

Please invite someone you know that is dealing with Alzheimer's or that is interested in Alzheimer's.  Refreshments will be served.

The Pilot Club of Johnson County sponsors the Johnson County Alzheimer's Support Group.

You may contact Mary Dixon   mddixon@pineland.net

Or Angela Blizzard at   blizzab@gmail.com

Greenwood Place Assisted Living 

and The Villas at Bellevue held our first 

Fire Safety for Elder Care Professionals.

We had a great turn out for our Fire Safety for Elder Care Professionals.  The class was very informative.  Fire is: Fast, Hot, Dark, and Deadly.  People between 65 and 74 are 2 times as likely to die in a fire, 75 and 84 are 4 times, and people over 85 are 5 times as likely to die in a fire.  We need to know: the risk, what is the behavior of fire, the facility safety features, the facility evacuation plans, burn prevention & treatment, and education for fire safety for seniors.   This helps to lower the risk in our senior population.

                     

When choosing a detector, consider:

• Sensitivity
• Ionization (Bedroom areas)
• Photoelectric (Kitchen/Family Room)  Homes should have both kinds
• Alarm Options
• Many seniors are hearing impaired.  Alarm should be LOUD and have a visual alert

We had fun learning and cutting up just a little bit.  

In February I went to Macon to take the

 Alzheimer's Care Certification Class Day 1

Mott Smith

Part 1 About Dementia

Dementia Basics 

This Class went over Statistics About Alzheimer's Disease.  In future blogs I will be sharing this information.  

 There is so much to learn about the disease and so much research needed to be done.  On February 12, 2015 Alzheimer's Awareness Day at the Capital was held.  It was a success in spreading the word for support for all our needs.  Volunteers are needed to assist the Association Georgia go to  www.alz.org/georgia   for information.

Greenwood Place and The Villas will be hosting a Fire Safety Class as well as CPR and First Aid

Just a Reminder!

You have a Fire Safety for Elder Care Professionals course scheduled at The Villas of Dublin.  

 Please verify:
The date/time:                                                 Friday, Mar. 27, 2015 at 9:00 am
The location of the class:             903 Bellevue Ave, Dublin  GA  31096
Number of people expected?

The cost of the training is $20 per student.   We ask for a minimum of 6 students in the class.   If you have less than 6, you will be responsible for the minimum charge of $120.

Your instructor will be Kelly 

  Of course, we always expect for a few more or a few less.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Kelly

HAPPY SPRING Everyone!

Just a reminder for the Dublin CHCC meeting next week:  Thursday, March 26^th 10AM-12 Noon at the Laurens County Library.

Hope to see you all there,

Melody

MELODY BROWN, MSM ~ Quality Advisor

GMCF, the QIN-QIO for Georgia and North Carolina

1455 Lincoln Pkwy, Suite 800

Atlanta, GA 30346

O 229-624-2051 | C 229-313-9121

Come check out our new website that was launched today for

The Villas at Bellevue, LLC

located in historical downtown Dublin.  

Its a Personal Care Home that excepts CCSP Residents.

http://www.retirementdublin.com

I would love any comments you have to share

New Residents !

We would like to welcome our three new residents : Mr. Edward Wilson, Mrs. Doris Jones and Mrs. Ruth Jackson!   They have all moved in with us here at Greenwood this week and we are so very excited to have them! :)

Tis the Season....

The holiday season is upon is!   This saturday we are having our Thanksgiving/ Fall party at Five Thirty for our residents and their friends and family :)     Then after that it's time to get out the Christmas decor and start listening to carols.. who's ready for a little Silent Night??  

I"m Back :)

Hey ya'll,

   It's me Miranda!   I'm back here in the south (Ohio is WAY too cold come winter! )  and I"m planning on being here at Greenwood again for the next long while.   I"m excited 'cause I've missed all my southern peoples!  I am seriously convinced Wrightsville is one of the best places to be; and us here at Greenwood are lucky to have such a nice little town to be a part of :)