To mark National Family Caregiver Month in November, Parker Adult Day Center gave out honey jars and recipes that use honey to participants and their family members. Enjoy these delicious recipes!

In mid-October, a group of eight nurses from Parker at McCarrick came to St. Peter’s for the first encounter with the SIM Lab. In the weeks ahead, Parker at McCarrick nursing staff will visit the St. Peter’s SIM Lab, in small groups, so that all of the homes’ RNs and LPNs will have participated in the one-hour congestive heart failure course and practiced with the SIM mannequins. 

While we are thankful every year for our many blessings, 2017 stands out among the rest. This year, Parker’s  110th anniversary falls on Thanksgiving Day. We feel proud of all our accomplishments since Henrietta Parker opened Parker at Landing Lane in 1907. We are especially thankful for such a monumental year – we are serving more people than ever, emboldened by our new mission of making aging part of life.

Roberto Muñiz was interviewed by Susana G. Baumann for Latinas in Business magazine for an article about how Latinos age in this country and the issues, both cultural and economical, that impede providing the best aging services possible for this growing population.

Laurie Peters and the Parker Day Club at Home enjoy an end-of-summer party with a Hawaiian theme and a fun new game.

In its September issue, Conde Nast fashion and beauty magazine Allure announced that it will no longer use the term “anti-aging” in its pages. Writes the publication’s editor-in-chief, Michelle Lee: “This issue is the long-awaited, utterly necessary celebration of growing into your own skin—wrinkles and all. . . But changing the way we think about aging starts with changing the way we talk about aging.”

Roberto Muñiz, President and CEO of Parker, discusses our annual "Aging in America" survey and our #WithIt conversation in which we all have an important role to play.

Originally printed in the June 2017 issue of The NJ Director, a newsletter published by the New Jersey Association of Directors of Nursing Administration (NJADONA)

Originally printed in the June 2017 issue of The NJ Director, a newsletter published by the New Jersey Association of Directors of Nursing Administration (NJADONA)

Parker recently conducted a national survey to gauge changing perceptions around aging in America. What we discovered may surprise you! 

 

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