A Celebration of Cultures at Juniper Village at Chatham!

We are so fortunate to have such a diverse staff from so many different cultures!!!  To learn more about each other and everyone's background, we invited the staff to do what families traditionally do: share food.  Each staff member brought a dish that was a specialty from their country or culture, and we enjoyed the feast!!!  It was great fun!

We love our Mothers at Juniper Village at Chatham!

Motherhood was celebrated in a big way in Chatham!  The dining room was decorated with pink balloons, pink table linens, and each table had beautiful pink potted hydrangeas as centerpieces.  The meal was delicious; prime rib, stuffed chicken breast, scalloped potatoes and fresh asparagus.  For dessert, a Viennese table was set up with all sorts of pastries.  Every mom was given a fresh rose to take, as they made their way to the afternoon's entertainment.  The day before Mother's Day, we had vendors come in to sell gifts to residents and family members.  Happy Mother's Day to all!!!

Ole!! Happy Cinco de Mayo from Chatham!!!

Our Cinco de Mayo Fiesta was amazing!  The dining room was festively decorated, and residents and staff donned big hats and colorful beads to honor the occasion. For our happy hour, we were entertained by our resident Efren and two other musicians. Instead of the usual fare of wine and cheese, we served margaritas, guacamole, salsa and chips. It was a really good time, and a nice way to welcome the month of May.

May 2017 Events in Chatham, NJ: Grow Strong Daily

Continuing our Spring Alive In All Seasons focus on healthy again, we continue to let wellbeing thrive with a May focus on Fitness. Staying fit throughout all seasons of life is possible and at Juniper we promote fitness every day of the week! We recently shared on our Facebook page a New York Times story, authored by Gretchen Reynolds, providing results from the Mayo Clinic who recently conducted an experiment on the cells of 72 healthy but sedentary men and women who were 30 or younger or older than 64. The volunteers were randomly assigned to a particular exercise regimen. There were some unsurprising differences: The gains in muscle mass and strength were greater for those who exercised only with weights, while interval training had the strongest influence on endurance. But more unexpected results were found in the biopsied muscle cells. It seems as if the decline in the cellular health of muscles associated with aging was “corrected” with exercise, especially if it was intense, says Dr. Sreekumaran Nair, a professor of medicine and an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic and the study’s senior author. In fact, older people’s cells responded in some ways more robustly to intense exercise than the cells of the young did. So pick up those weights, get on that bike and remember it’s never too late to benefit from exercise. And if you’re not doing so already, follow us on social media so you don’t miss a thing.

We invite you to Grow Strong Daily along with us with programs such as Fitness Five and our Route 66 Walking Program. Learn more about fitness and keeping your heart healthy at our Heart Healthy Luncheon and educational presentation. Staying fit throughout all seasons of life is possible.

Our fabulous May 2017 events in Chatham, NJ at Juniper Village at Chatham include our:

§  Yoga Series on our great front lawn as we enjoy the relaxing and invigorating stretches of yoga with Jillian Keller as she encourages us to get in touch with our inner selves Every Saturday in May at 9:30 am. (Cost is $4 per participant.)

§  Moses Rocks as we present Peter Small impersonating the man who parted seas for this educational and spiritual presentation about the prophet in Abrahamic religions who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was a former Egyptian prince who later in life became a religious leader on May 4^th at 3:00 pm.

§  Classic Comedy of Radio & TV as Walter Choroszewski presents the history of broadcast comedy from its radio debut in the 1920’s through its Golden Age with Abbott & Costello, Burns & Allen and many more, and concludes with the creation of classic sitcoms including “The Honeymooners” and all-time favorite “I Love Lucy” on May 23^rd at 2:00 pm.

We look forward to sharing our May 2017 events in Chatham, NJ at Juniper Village at Chatham with you as you Grow Strong Daily.