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Empowering Technology At Ecumen
Ecumen sees technology as essential to enhancing the aging experience wherever people choose to call home.
Ecumen was one of the country’s first senior services providers to broadly introduce QuietCare in its housing communities. QuietCare by GE Healthcare is a proactive and unobtrusive motion sensor technology that can help identify small health problems before they grow larger. Other technologies Ecumen incorporates include [m]Power cognitive fitness technology; Nintendo’s Wii technology for rehabilitation and just plain fun; CareTracker e-charting; and Ivivi Sof-Pulse for wound care.
Changing Aging Going on Break While Ecumen Readies New Web Site Launch
We’re going to have a whole new web site for you to enjoy later this month. While we make the transition to that site, the writers at Ecumen have gone fishing. We’ll be back right around June 17th. In the meantime, enjoy our past posts and recent videos we’ve just put up. Thanks for your readership and for supporting Ecumen in changing aging. See you back here soon.
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Ecumen QuietCare Video With Intel and GE
Here’s how Ecumen uses GE QuietCare technology. This video from the Ecumen Lakeview Commons community in Maplewood, Minn., was shown at the GE-Intel press conference announcing their partnership in proactive wellness technology.
Ecumen Skydiver Celebrates 80th Birthday Playing in the Clouds
Love this video of Jean Marino, who lives at Ecumen Lakeshore in Duluth, Minnesota. Since she was a little child looking at the planes flying over her family farm, she’s wanted to skydive and play in the clouds. She did it on her 80th birthday.
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Vital Aging Network: Communities for a Lifetime Forum, June 9
Ecumen’s Lisa Fowler and our partners at the Minneapolis "virtual village" Mill City Commons will be among the panelists at the June 9th Vital Aging Network forum. The event will be held
June 9, 2009
10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Rondo Community Outreach Library
461 N. Dale St.
St. Paul, MN 55103
More information is here. Also featured will be River Bluffs Village, which like Mill City Commons is a "virtual village" model the Mendota Heights area of the Twin Cities. Mike Weber, CEO of Volunteers of America/Minnesota, will discuss Communities for a Lifetime legislation that passed in Minnesota this legislative session. And Bob Roepke, former mayor of Chaska, Minn., will discuss vision and leadership needed to create communities for a lifetime.
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Story on Ecumen’s Lakeshore in Duluth Shows What Could Be for America
Please call your U.S. Senators today and urge them to make long-term care services and supports part of health care reform. It’s easy to make that call, here’s how.
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U.S. Senate Call-In Day: June 4 - Make Long-Term Care and Services Part of Health Care Reform
It’s time for us to call our U.S. Senators again on
Thursday, June 4th. It takes just a few minutes … We anticipate that in the next week or so we will start seeing actual legislative proposals for health care reform.
Ecumen’s Meadows of Worthington Figures Out How Many People Can Fit in a Stretch Limousine
How many people can you fit in a stretch limo for a road trip?
Last Titanic Survivor Dies - Sold Her Treasures to Pay for Long-Term Care
Last October we wrote about Millvina Dean, the last living survivor of the Titanic. She had to sell her Titanic treasures so she could afford long-term care. Ms. Dean died this weekend at 97. Continue reading for a video of an interview she gave last October.
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