The no scrooge neighborhood Eric Ehst, Executive Director It’s the holiday season again. Anyone who has read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol or seen one of the many movie versions remembers that moment when Scrooge realizes that a person’s true legacy is not how much money they accumulated, but the difference they made in the lives of…
95th Birthday Bash! Eric Ehst, Executive Director The name of our organization, Neighbors Who Care, is not an accident. It personifies the motivations of our volunteers and is reflected in everything they do. In September one of our long-term clients celebrated her 95th birthday. Helen, who no longer is able to drive, lives alone and…
Neighbors Who Care wants to revolutionize Independent Aging Eric Ehst Up until the last century few people lived past the age of 60 and most of those who made it that far spent their later years battling illness and physical impairment. Recent advances in nutrition and medical care have revolutionized aging. Today over 14% of…
Tom Adamson San Tan Crown Rotary club of Sun Lakes, along with Orbitel Communications in Sun Lakes and Metro Valley Computers, are working together to upgrade the computer systems at Neighbors Who Care (NWC). If your organization is interested in helping with this project to assist NWC, an organization that helps so many in need…
September 7 Office closed, no services September 8 Community Education Workshop from 9:00-11:00 a.m. at Sun Lakes United Methodist Church; call 480-802-0741 to sign-up; topic is Arizona Ballot Measures; speaker is Eric Ehst September 10 AARP Driver Safety class from 12:30–4:30 p.m. at Neighbors Who Care office; call 480-895-8133 to sign-up; instructor is Jerry Hartley September 14 Caregiver…
Life is all about change and in a retirement community such as Sun Lakes, we are aware of those of us who face perhaps the most challenging changes of our lives. It can be sobering and can give us pause. But at Unity we adopt a positive attitude and life style. We believe that God,…
Eric Ehst, Executive Director It’s that time of year again, back to school. This doesn’t usually create much excitement in Sun Lakes and surrounding communities like SunBird, Springfield, and Solera. We’re mostly older, without many school-aged kids. This year we want “back to school” to mean something good for the rest of us. Starting in…
Carol Bowers, Volunteer Manager S.M.A.R.T. Strategic Memory and Alzheimer’s Rehabilitation Training The statistics about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are staggering. This is enough to get most of us to pause and think about our future cognitive health. There are so many people with dementia out there who require daily care but sadly their are not…
It was the Christmas season in 1940. World War II was raging in Europe and James Dillet Freeman was asked to write an affirmative prayer for the Christmas service for Silent Unity workers. He wrote the first rendition of what is now known around the world as the Prayer for Protection. That first draft went…
Eric Ehst, Executive Director On July 4 we will celebrate that day 239 years ago when our forebears created a new nation, one that allows us the freedom to live with dignity where we want and how we want. At Neighbors Who Care our volunteers help over 1300 of their frail, homebound and disabled neighbors…