Elaine smiles big and warmly greets integrative care specialist Katie Cook Fjelstad when Katie knocks and enters her apartment at the Villa apartments at Woodbury Senior Living. Elaine is on Katie’s list for a visit this week. This usually involves a foot massage. “Katie does such a good job and it feels so good,” she […]
Woodbury Senior Living staff members receive awards
Two Woodbury Senior Living staff members, Sherri Lage and Katie Cookfjelstad, will receive awards this fall from the Care Providers of Minnesota association. The awards will be presented at the Care Provider’s November 2019 convention. Expertise in aging and dementia Our memory care director Sherri Lage will be given the 2019 Dedicated Service Award, recognizing […]
Promising Practices for Meeting the Mental Health Needs of our Elders
by Leah Kaplan, LICSW, Associated Clinic of Psychology In 1980, Associated Clinic of Psychology (ACP) pioneered the practice of seeing patients in geriatric care environments to provide the right treatment at the right place and the right time, recognizing that these are unique patients and environments that require unique care. By going to patients in […]
Telling the Stories of our Lives
by Carol Dexter, integrative health volunteer My name is Carol. I have been volunteering at Woodbury Senior Living (WSL) twice a week for about nine months. This is my story: I never lived with elders and never experienced their lives as an adult except when they were hospitalized with an acute illness, injury, or were experiencing […]
My Volunteer Story
by Carol Dexter, RN, BSN, MPH, integrative health volunteer at Woodbury Senior Living Creative in My Work Hi, I am Carol and I have lived a very eventful life up until the time I decided to retire. I grew up in a moderate sized town with four other siblings and lots of cousins and friends. […]
Enriching lives through music therapy
By Erin Heidemann, MT-BC Angela Johnson, MT-BC and I are full time music therapists on the memory care unit at Woodbury Health Care Center. Angela and I have worked together on the memory care unit for four years. Together, we have developed a Music Therapy program of activities that enriches the lives of all residents. […]
Presenters at International Integrative Nursing Symposium
In early April 2017, Rachel Trelstad-Porter and Amy Quarberg attended the 2nd International Integrative Nursing Symposium in Tucson, AZ, presenting on the Integrative Therapies program at Woodbury Senior Living. Rachel is the Director of Integrative Health and Wellness at Woodbury Senior Living and Amy is an Integrative Nurse Clinician at Woodbury Senior Living and at […]
New Memory Care Director Brings Incredible Programming and Expertise to Community
Pamela Maury is the new Director of Memory Care and Community Life at Woodbury Senior Living. Her career in elder care spans over 23 years. In 1994, she became a long distance caregiver for her father, who was living in Minneapolis and was diagnosed with dementia. In 2001, she moved him to California to live with […]
