Top 5 Blog Posts — Aug. 17

Did you miss last week's most-read Changing Aging blog posts? Ecumen's online visitors found these articles most interesting:

Ecumen Bethany Community Gets Medicare’s Highest 5-Star Quality Rating
The Ecumen Bethany Community in Alexandria, Minn., has received the highest possible overall quality rating of 5 stars from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS).

World's Oldest Twin Brothers Offer Advice on Wine, Women and Living Long
Belgians Pieter and Paulus Langerock have been best friends for 102 years. The twin brothers, born on July 8 1913, have been inseparable since birth and rarely spend time apart, and even share the same room at their retirement home outside the Belgian town of Ghent. They have some advice on living long and well. 

Live 2 B Healthy: Custom-Made, Home-Delivered Fitness for Seniors
A highly customized approach to senior fitness is showing amazing results in helping Ecumen residents regain strength, balance and mobility.

Pioneer Press Story Focuses on Services to Keep Seniors in Their Homes
Most seniors want to stay in their own homes, but often they need assistance to make that happen.  Increasingly, home care services and community programs are becoming widely available, but connecting seniors with the services they need can be challenging.

Ecumen’s Velocity Leadership Program Graduates Class of 2015
The Ecumen Velocity class of 2015 has just graduated from the year-long program focused on building leadership skills and developing innovative approaches to aging services.

You can read these articles and more at www.ecumen.org