Seniors Section :: Page 2

• Amid pandemic, Friends Care Community’s ho-ho-holidays

  By Audrey HackettJanuary 4, 2021

  

  The holidays are festive, if lower-key, at Friends Care Community this year. Visitation has been restricted at the facility since March.

• Senior Center to reopen Monday

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 19, 2020

  

  That door will open again on Monday, Oct. 19, as the Senior Center welcomes seniors back with a “Coffee and Donuts with Friends” event.

• Senior Center reopening halted

  By YS News StaffOctober 16, 2020

  

  After the announcement that Greene County had been elevated to level 3, or “red,” by the Ohio Public Health Advisory System, the YS Senior Center has halted its plan to reopen for in-person events. The elevation to level 3 indicates “very high exposure or spread” of COVID-19.

• Elder Stories: Painter Jack Merrill

  By Audrey HackettFebruary 14, 2020

  

  Merrill is known by some in the village as a quiet and tenacious artist who painted exuberantly, if privately, through nearly five decades of living and working in Yellow Springs.

• Home, Inc. senior apartments— A closer look at developer

  By Diane ChiddisterDecember 6, 2018

  

  Created in 1989, St. Mary Development Corporation grew from a partnership between a Catholic nun and a Centerville parishioner. Within a few years, they had purchased their first site for affordable senior housing. For the pending Yellow Springs project, Home, Inc. will provide most of the service component.

• Planning Commission — Varying views on senior apartments

  By Megan BachmanNovember 22, 2018

  

  Last Monday’s Village Planning Commission meeting was standing room only as villagers aired their thoughts on Home, Inc.’s proposed 54-unit affordable senior apartment building between East Herman and East Marshall streets. 

• A good year for new Friends Care director

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 8, 2018

  

  While Mike Montgomery is the executive director of Friends Care Community, he takes a modest position regarding how critical he is to the functioning of the local continuing care center.

• In September, a focus on dementia

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 30, 2018

  

  When organizers for the Dementia Friendly Yellow Springs, or DFYS, project held a community book read last winter on a book about dementia, they were encouraged by the hardy response.

• C’mon and dance!

  By Lauren ShowsMay 31, 2018

  

  The annual Senior Center flash mob dance on Wednesday, May 30 on Short St drew participants from both the Senior Center and the Children’s Center.

• Friends Care scores high on survey

  By YS News StaffApril 4, 2018

  

  Friends Care Community recently received the highest resident satisfaction score in all of Greene County, based on the 2018 Ohio Department of Aging’s Statewide Nursing Home Satisfaction Survey.