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The Creative Corner

Mon, October 4, 2021 Published by

The Creative Corner is now open and is flourishing. We have an open workshop every Tuesday and Thursday.
Feel free to stop on by from 9:30AM-11:30AM on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Bring you projects during this open workshop and we will provide the supplies. All are welcome. We are also offering classes led by residents at this time. We are offering a Card Making class with Sylvia Anderson, a Decorative Painting class with Linda Danik, a Beading class with Noreen Wingham and a introduction to Stain Glass with Chuck Beaujon. You must call in to reserve a spot with the instructor.

  • Sylvia Anderson 623-975-4311
  • Linda Danik 602-544-5134
  • Noreen Wingham 602-544-5495
  • Chuck Beaujon 520-204-1639

Haven’t Been Scammed Yet? You Will Be!

Tue, July 30, 2019 Published by

Soon, you will also see announcements of a trial Scam Prevention Workshop. Korry Nelson and I are working together to create a LLL class for you with the goal of arming you with better tools to protect yourself against these criminals.

Hello Beatitudes!

Wed, January 18, 2017 Published by

I was asked to write my first article while Jon Schilling was on vacation.  Since I’m one of the newest full time employees, I thought that it would be best for me to take this opportunity to introduce myself to Beatitudes Campus.

I am a personal fitness instructor, certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine since 1996.  I worked as a fitness instructor in various Health Clubs and Medical Clinics. Most of that time I worked at Mountain Shadows Resort and Golf Club in Paradise Valley.

I am a new full time employee, but I am not new to this campus.  Many of you know me from my previous positions.  I started working here for Beatitudes at Home in July, 2012.

I later became the group instructor in the Functional Fitness class.

I left Beatitudes at Home to work in a physical therapy clinic in 2013 for two years, but I continued to be the instructor for the Functional Fitness class.

From the beginning, I made it clear that I enjoyed working with the people in this environment and that I wanted to work here full time.  The average age of my fitness clients, over the course of my 20 year career, has always been 50+ years old.

My new position title is Fitness Specialist.  My duties include Fitness Center Attendant, Personal Fitness Instructor and Group Fitness Instructor.

Now that I am here full time, I will channel all of my studies into fitness training for residents 65 years and older.   This means that I will find the best ways to address age related physical illnesses and injuries.

I am gathering as much literature on dementia as I can find, so I can create effective workout strategies that best serve residents who may suffer from this terrible disease.  I also want to be able to offer useful tips to help friends, relatives and caregivers to communicate with them through troubling times.

The physical therapists who work on campus are wonderful!  I have a good relationship with them.  Residents who have suffered from an illness or injury that work with the campus therapists may want to extend their physical rehabilitation long after they have been discharged.  I can do one on one fitness sessions to extend the physical therapist’s treatment strategies within my limitations as a Certified Fitness Trainer.  It has been three months since I have been a full time employee on Campus.  I DO NOT need any more time to analyze my decision to take this position.  I already concluded that I made the BEST decision to join this team.

I feel very comfortable with the staff and the residents.  I enjoy getting opportunities to share laughs with everyone, especially when I “goof up” during my fitness classes.

If I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting you yet, please stop me in the hallways, come to one of my fitness classes or stop by the Fitness Center.  I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT!

Active Aging Year

Mon, October 3, 2016 Published by

It was so fun to celebrate Active Aging Week like we did last week.  The week long events were fun and the culmination of the Street Fair down Central Park Mall was a fiesta.  But truth be told, every week is active aging week at Beatitudes Campus.  As a matter of fact, it is Active Aging Year at Beatitudes Campus.

The International Council on Active Aging wanted this last week to challenge society’s diminished expectations of aging by showing that, regardless of age or health conditions, adults over 50 can live as fully as possible in all areas of life—physical, social, spiritual, emotional, intellectual, vocational and environmental. Any given week, all you have to do is look around and you will see those diminished expectations burst before your very eyes.

Look at all the resident run efforts and programs, and one quickly sees that nothing could be further from the truth if one thinks that seniors, in this senior living community, don’t have high expectations of themselves and their abilities to make a difference.  You residents started a campus wide recycling program and developed the Elders for a Sustainable Future.  You started the Beatitudes Campus Center for Life Long Learners, now having offered close to a 100 classes and enrolling 150 or more each semester.  You have your own Facebook page which is as good as any out there with great shots of Campus Life.  You serve on Residents Council committees and design and contribute from everything like recreational outings and events to health and wellness programs.  The fitness classes are overflowing and the Fitness Center is rarely empty.  During the summer months, and even in the winter, the folk in the pool are always making waves.

And it doesn’t stop there!  I am amazed at all of the residents who are volunteering for non-profits off Campus, and with our CAREcorps officially launched, even more are volunteering on Campus.  You residents teach Sit and Be Fit and facilitate heady endeavors like Science and Spirituality.  You help in the Gift Shop, run the Beatitudes Backstreet Boutique through the Auxiliary and till the Beatitudes Community Garden making it the envy of every other Life Plan Community. You create game nights, you sing, dance and plan events for your floors and buildings, drawing our community closer and closer together.  When a new resident moves in, you cannot wait to send another welcoming resident to unleash the radical hospitality that makes this community shine.  You saw the need for teaching our immigrant brothers and sisters English and you started an English Language Assistance program and the list can go on and on.

I know I speak for all of us who are fortunate enough to be able to work and serve at Beatitudes Campus when I say that you all are paving the way for the rest of us and inspire us every day.  I only wish your contemporaries knew what you know and do with your lives and see that, if they think a community like ours is for “old people”, then the only thing “old” is their thinking.  You have created a vibrant, energetic, inspiring and anything but inactive community.

It’s Active Aging Year this year and, thanks to you, will be every year hereafter.

Excel for Beginners Class

Fri, April 1, 2016 Published by

There is still space!  Reserve your spot – the first round of these classes filled up quickly!Excel image

This is a two part class where we will focus on the basics of Excel and work through the common areas people use most. The first part will begin on April 19th at 10:30 to 11:30 am.
The second half will be on April 27th at 10:30 to 11:30 am.  Please note that you need to attend the first class in order to be a part of the second class. Both classes will be held in the Campus Computer Lab located northwest of the Town Plaza in the Central Park West building.  For more information contact Ashley Black (@ablack) in Accounting at [email protected] or at x6189.