Luck Of The Irish

Every year on March 17, the Irish and the Irish-at-heart across the globe observe St. Patrick’s Day. What began as a religious feast day for the patron saint of Ireland has become an international festival celebrating Irish culture with parades, dancing, special foods and a whole lot of green.  The Spearly Center welcomed The Heritage Irish Step Dancers for a grand performance, a group of traditional Irish dance students, who perform in over fifty shows annually across the Denver metro area.  Additionally, Spearly hosted Luck Of The Irish: St. Patty’s Day Celebration, complete with festive foods, Irish music, and smiles and laughter shared by all!  May you and your family have the Luck Of The Irish all year long!

Awaken Your Passion: 5th Annual Spearly Art Show

Visual Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. Creating art can improve well–being by decreasing negative emotions and increasing positive ones.  The Awaken Your Passion: 5th Annual Spearly Art Show was held in the Spearly Art Studio on February 26th and was a great success! A wide variety of individual and group art pieces were on display including acrylic, watercolor and oil paintings, sketches, oil pastel pieces, and charcoal drawings. Residents, associates and family always look forward to this fun and colorful event. Several residents submitted over 100 art pieces in this year's show, and there were about 50 attendees who voted on 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place winning pieces.  Additionally, some artists were on-site exhibiting their creativity in action.  Visual Arts can truly nurture the spirit of life!

Disco Fever Dance Off!

Spearly reminisced back to the 70’s for our 1^st Annual Disco Fever Dance Off party!  Residents and staff were shakin’ a tail feather to the sounds of Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, Blondie, The Trammps, Thelma Houston, and many other popular musical acts from the colorful Disco era.  Many sported afros, stylish hats and flashy 70’s funky threads as well.  Everyone enjoyed showing off their dance moves to The Electric Boogaloo, The Hustle and The Bump.  A “far out” time was had by all!  

Juniper Communities Introduces Theralink for Onsite Integrated Therapy at Juniper Village at the Spearly Center

Juniper Communities, a national owner-operator of Juniper Village senior living communities, is rolling out Theralink in all its facilities, and locally at Juniper Village at the Spearly Center. Theralink is an on-site program designed to help residents regain and maintain independence, fitness and overall wellbeing. It is being implemented through a newly established partnership between Juniper Communities and Genesis Rehab Services.

“Rehabilitation, restorative services, and fitness are vital to healthy aging and whole person wellness,” explains Lynne Katzmann, CEO and Founder of Juniper Communities. “Coordinated with other clinical services permits, Juniper will be able to provide integrated post-acute care onsite at the communities through Theralink. This is especially important for Juniper’s residents who want and need more intensive rehabilitation services in their ‘home’.”

Grant Welson, Area Director for Genesis Rehab Services states, “Juniper is taking an industry lead by creating Theralink to offer onsite therapy services where they are integrated into everyday patient care. Feedback from preliminary implementation from Juniper’s residents has been overwhelmingly positive.”

The Theralink program will provide physical, occupational, speech, and when needed respiratory therapy that is integrated into the care Juniper currently delivers. Elements of Theralink include special balance and strength training, and fall prevention programs; technology and apps that facilitate and record personal fitness training; dementia management programs that integrate cognitive and occupational therapies; cardiopulmonary management; and monthly assessment reports.

March 2015 Events in Denver, CO: Your Treasure Is Within

Treasure hunting has been around forever! The search for riches has evolved from archaeological digs revealing lost treasure to present day treasure hunts such as television’s “The Amazing Race”. Much has been written about the allure of treasure, but one thing that we’ve come to realize is that the treasure within is the most valuable of all. Each one of us has a treasure within and through our March 2015 events in Denver, CO we will be exploring that treasure at Juniper Village at The Spearly Center - be it your ability to sing, play a musical instrument, recite dramatic prose or balance a spoon at the end of your nose. No treasure is too small! In the immortal words of Captain Jack Sparrow, “Not all treasure’s silver and gold, mate.”

With our March 2015 events in Denver, CO at Juniper Village at The Spearly Center we end our Creative Expressions Series with a focus on Performance. Please join us during our March 2015 events in Denver, CO while we recognize “Your Treasure is Within” as we provide opportunities to express yourself through our weekly drama clubs and by attending theatrical performances. If step dancing and corned beef and cabbage is more your thing, sample all that is Irish with our annual St. Patrick’s Day party or walk the red carpet and share your movie trivia skills at our Oscar Party.

Our fabulous March 2015 events in Denver, CO include our Heritage Step Dancers Moving with Style performance as we welcome this energetic and talented group of performers for a pleasant morning of entertainment and fun with light refreshments on March 10^th at 10:00 am; our Luck of the Irish St. Patty’s Day Celebration our annual “Green Affair” where friends, family and our Greater Denver community are invited to partake in tasty treats and mix and mingle with our dear residents as traditional Celtic music will be played and door prizes will be awarded on March 17^th at 2:30 pm; or our North High School Drama Club presentation by a talented group of individuals who has taken the time to volunteer so graciously in our community on March 26^th at 10:00 am.  

We hope to see you at one or more of our March 2015 events in Denver, CO, so check out our calendar for more!