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Readers’ Choice: The Most Popular Changing Aging Blog Posts of 2013 (Part 2)

 Yesterday we listed the top 5 Changing Aging blog posts for 2013.  Today top posts ranked 6 through 10 are listed below with links: 6. Visit the New Ecumen.org! 7. Irene Carlson's Dream Come True 8. The 20 Basics From Ritz-Carlton – Have You Experienced Them? 9. Ecumen and MOJO Minnesota Launch AgePower Tech Search

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Oliver, the Golden Retriever, Feels the Love At Ecumen Scenic Shores

Oliver, the golden retriever, has an extended family of 40.  He’s being raised by the residents of Ecumen Scenic Shores Assisted Living in Two Harbors, Minn.  Housing Manager Julie Luchsinger sums it up this way:  “A big thing at Ecumen is creating home, and home to a lot of people is having a dog lying

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Readers’ Choice: The Most Popular Changing Aging Blog Posts of 2013 (Part 2)

 Yesterday we listed the top 5 Changing Aging blog posts for 2013.  Today top posts ranked 6 through 10 are listed below with links: 6. Visit the New Ecumen.org! 7. Irene Carlson's Dream Come True 8. The 20 Basics From Ritz-Carlton – Have You Experienced Them? 9. Ecumen and MOJO Minnesota Launch AgePower Tech Search

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Readers’ Choice: The Most Popular Changing Aging Blog Posts of 2013 (Part 1)

As 2013 comes to a close, we’re sharing your favorite blogs from the past 12 months. The most popular stories are an eclectic mix of news and features about people and programs — inspired by Ecumen’s vision of “a world in which aging is viewed and understood in radically different ways.” We are calling out

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Ecumen of Litchfield Residents and Staff Sing the Praises of Lutefisk

In the great lutefisk debate, a group of residents and staff at Ecumen of Litchfield vote strongly in favor of the controversial cod. They make field trips to the Litchfield VFW to partake and literally sing the praises of lutefisk. In his "Land of 10,000 Stories," KARE11's Boyd Huppert tells this stinky fish story. At

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Fran Tarkenton at 73 Remembers Pro Football Before the Mayhem– by Ecumen Blogger Jim Klobuchar

 The current phenomenon known as pro football was introduced to Minnesota and its tributaries more than 50 years ago.   The audience for the first game in 1961, played not far from the cornfields of south Bloomington, was a modest 32,236, and the indisputable star was a rookie quarterback and now lively septuagenarian named Francis Tarkenton.

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Ecumen Meadows’ Arlene Schlichte Turns Her Hobby Into a Charity for Children

 Arlene Schlichte, 87, has created a charitable cottage industry headquartered in her apartment at Ecumen Meadows in Worthington, Minn. For the past six years, she has been crocheting scarves by the hundreds and donating them to Worthington children who need help fighting off the winter cold. Worthington is a place where many children come from

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Honoring Judith Johnson, Who Just Celebrated Her 104th Birthday at Ecumen Parmly LifePointes

Judith Swenson Johnson was born in North Branch, Minn. before the start of World War I.  She recently celebrated her 104th birthday at Ecumen Parmly LifePointes in Chisago City.  In a Chisago County Press article, the positive, forward-looking Judith tells reporter Denise Martin: “I just wonder what’s going to happen next.”   

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Alzheimer’s & Dementia Care: “Listening to Elderly Cuts Use of Costly Medications,” Ecumen Awakenings Featured in Minneapolis Star Tribune

So many people across Ecumen have made Ecumen Awakenings possible and are contributing to the program's learnings and growth.  It is innovation that empowers and honors those with Alzheimer's and other types of dementia while underscoring our mission and vision. Saturday's front-page article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune features a long story on this great work. Thank

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Ecumen VP of Philanthropy Judy Blaseg Featured in Star Tribune “Movers & Shakers”

In the Star Tribune’s Movers & Shakers column today, Ecumen VP of Philanthropy Judy Blaseg talks about how Ecumen’s mission and her personal experience drew her to applying her fundraising skills to issues related to aging. 

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