Sun Valley Lodge Combats Senior Fall Risk with Workshops

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:

Michael Kloberdanz
Sun Valley Lodge                                               
Phone (623) 933-0137
Fax (623) 933-5846
mike@sunvalleylodge.org
www.sunvalleylodge.org

Sun Valley Lodge Combats Senior Fall Risk with Workshops

 

Sun City, Arizona – Friday, October 10, 2014 – Sun Valley Lodge will be holding two dynamic workshops focusing on balance and fall prevention.  The events will be held on Thursday October 23^rd and Thursday, October 30^th at 10:00 AM and will explore strategies to keep older adults on their feet.   Both sessions are free to the public.

Falls are the leading cause of fractures, hospital admissions for trauma, loss of independence, and trauma deaths for Seniors.  Each year, more than 1.6 million older U.S. adults go to emergency departments for fall-related injuries.  The fall risk only increases with age.  People age 75 and older who fall are four to five times more likely than those age 65 to 74 to be admitted to a long-term care facility for a year or longer.


Sun Valley Lodge assisted living director Blanche Forrester will lead the discussions along with physical therapists Jaime Forbes and Colin Gavrila.  Both Jaime and Colin work for Phoenix Home Health and regularly see Lodge residents.


The first session will concentrate on understanding the body’s multiple systems – neurological, muscular/skeletal, and cardiopulmonary.  We will focus on how they work together and how sensory, motor skills and nervous system change with age.  Finally, we will go over functional ambulation requirements and strategies to prevent falls in the home.


The second session will help participants recognize how most falls are the result of interacting risk factors and how to develop strategies to reduce those risks.  We will help participants identify strategies and resources that can be used to reduce risk and discuss the use of occupational therapy as a tool to help prevent risks will also be covered.


Free blood pressure screening and free blood sugar tests will also be available at both sessions.  Each session will last about an hour with time for questions at the conclusion.  Seating for these seminars is free to the public, but limited.  Please contact the Lodge at (623) 933-0137 to reserve attendance.

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Sun Valley Lodge is a nonprofit organization and has been providing independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care in Sun City, Arizona for over 40 years.

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July 12, 2014 Midge Crockett    reviewed your business on Google Plus Local 5 Stars (5/5)

My husband and I lived in an independent apartment at Sun Valley Lodge for nearly two years. The "Lodge" provides continuum care for most phases of elderly life, from Independent Living, Assisted Living and nursing care. We enjoyed our residence there...the food is quite good and the kitchen/serving staff constantly strives to satisfy the varied palates of the residents and improve the daily meals. The staff and the residents co-mingle amicably, making for a very pleasant environment. The nursing staff is friendly and efficient while being both professional and knowledgeable. Daily activities are organized and planned to meet resident's preferences and levels of ability. The Lodge sponsors such things as pizza parties, sing-a-longs, movies and many other activities to bring enjoyment, fun and stimulation to its residents.Most of our needs were met right there at the Lodge with on-premises beauty shop and barber, good food, live entertainment, round- trip transportation to local grocers, retail shops and doctor appointments, games and fun activities and group exercises, to name a few. When my husband became terminally ill, the Lodge employees were at my side with words of support, sound advise and a wealth of information about resources available to us. Sun Valley Lodge was not just a place to live...it was our home. We were fortunate to have lived there.

Free Hearing Event

Hearing Health Event

presented by Zounds Hearing Aids of Surprise

June 27th

10:00 AM

Fruit and pastries will be served

Sun Valley Lodge

12415 N. 103rd Avenue

Sun City, Arizona 85351

Call 623/584-7817 to RSVP

Two More Employees Reach the 40 Year Mark!

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Contact:

Michael Kloberdanz
Sun Valley Lodge                                               
Phone (623) 933-0137
Fax (623) 933-5846
mike@sunvalleylodge.org
www.sunvalleylodge.org

 

Sun Valley Lodge Honors Long-time Employees 

Sun City, Arizona – Friday, April 25, 2014 – Sun Valley Lodge recently held its annual Years of Service ceremony to recognize the years of care many of their employees have given to the Lodge.  Among the honorees this year were Bertha Lopez and Ollie Washington who have been serving Lodge residents 1974.  Bertha started in the housekeeping department and Ollie in the kitchen during the Gerald Ford administration and have been providing residents with loving care ever since.

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Sun Valley Lodge is a nonprofit organization and has been providing independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care in Sun City, Arizona for over 40 years.

John Wayne in Arizona

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Contact:

Michael Kloberdanz

Sun Valley Lodge

Phone (623) 933-0137

Fax (623) 933-5846

mike@sunvalleylodge.org

www.sunvalleylodge.org

 

John Wayne in Arizona

 

Sun City, Arizona – Monday, March 17, 2014 – Sun Valley Lodge is hosting a free presentation entitled “Riding with the Duke: John Wayne in Arizona” on Thursday, March 27^th at 10:30 AM.  The program will be presented by author Greg McNamee and is part of the Lodge’s Discover Arizona series.  The series is made possible through a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council. 

 

John Wayne was born in Iowa and lived for most of his adult life in Los Angeles—or at least, he received his mail there. In reality, he considered the desert to be his true home, and he spent many years exploring, living, and investing in Arizona, where, at various points, he produced his own films, raised cattle, operated a game ranch, and was seemingly everywhere at once, turning up one day in Eagar, another in Casa Grande, another in Tucson, still another in Kingman. More than thirty years after his death, Wayne remains an iconic presence in American popular culture. In this talk, Gregory McNamee, who often writes about film and western history alike for such publications as the Encyclopaedia Britannica and The Hollywood Reporter, looks at the Duke’s long career in Arizona.

 

Greg McNamee is a writer, editor, photographer, and publishing consultant. He is the author of thirty books and of more than three thousand articles and other publications. He is a contributing editor to the Encyclopædia Britannica, a research fellow at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona, and a lecturer in the Eller School of Management, also at the University of Arizona.

 

The Discover Arizona series consists of four programs that each feature a different aspect of Arizona history presented by an accomplished speaker.  Programs are scheduled for every Thursday in March at 10:30 AM. 

 

All of the programs are free and open to the public.  Sun Valley Lodge is located at 12415 N. 103^rd Avenue in Sun City.  For more details please call 623-933-0137.

 

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Sun Valley Lodge is a nonprofit organization and has been providing independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care in Sun City, Arizona for over 40 years.

A Photographic History of Arizona

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Contact:

Michael Kloberdanz

Sun Valley Lodge

Phone (623) 933-0137

Fax (623) 933-5846

mike@sunvalleylodge.org

www.sunvalleylodge.org

 

 

A Photographic History of Arizona

 

Sun City, Arizona – Monday, March 17, 2014 – Sun Valley Lodge is hosting a free presentation entitled “A Photographic History of Arizona from Prehistory to the Present” on Thursday, March 20^th at 10:30 AM.  The program will be presented by historian Jim Turner and is part of the Lodge’s Discover Arizona series.  The series is made possible through a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council. 

 

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this program could fill a seven-volume history of Arizona. From the geological wonders of the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest to cutting-edge biotech industries and Native American art galleries, this whirlwind pictorial history tour of Arizona from prehistory to the present shows it all. In addition to beautiful landscape photography and historic site images, this engaging program addresses Arizona’s cultural diversity, mining, and the history of water use.

 

Before retiring from the Arizona Historical Society, Jim Turner worked with more than 70 museums in every corner of the state. He is co-author of the 4th-grade textbook The Arizona Story, and his pictorial history book, Arizona: Celebration of the Grand Canyon State, contains more than 530 images. Jim moved to Tucson in 1951, earned a masters degree in U.S. history from the University of Arizona, and has been researching and teaching Arizona history for more than 35 years.

 

The Discover Arizona series consists of four programs that each feature a different aspect of Arizona history presented by an accomplished speaker.  Programs are scheduled for every Thursday in March at 10:30 AM. 

 

All of the programs are free and open to the public.  Sun Valley Lodge is located at 12415 N. 103^rd Avenue in Sun City.  For more details please call 623-933-0137.

 

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Sun Valley Lodge is a nonprofit organization and has been providing independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care in Sun City, Arizona for over 40 years.

Southwest Indian Rock Art Discussion

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Contact:

Michael Kloberdanz

Sun Valley Lodge

Phone (623) 933-0137

Fax (623) 933-5846

mike@sunvalleylodge.org

www.sunvalleylodge.org

 

 

Southwest Indian Rock Art Discussion

 

Sun City, Arizona – Monday, March 10, 2014 – Sun Valley Lodge is hosting a free presentation entitled “Set in Stone But Not in Meaning: Southwest Indian Rock Art” on Thursday, March 13^th at 10:30 AM.  The program will be presented by archaeologist Allen Dart and is part of the Lodge’s Discover Arizona series.  The series is made possible through a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council. 

 

Ancient Indian pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks) are claimed by some to be forms of writing for which meanings are known. But are such claims supported by archaeology or by Native Americans themselves? Archaeologist Allen Dart illustrates southwestern petroglyphs and pictographs, and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may be interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native American perspectives.

 

Allen Dart has worked full-time and volunteered as a professional archaeologist in New Mexico and Arizona since 1975, for government, private companies, and nonprofit organizations. He is employed as an archaeologist for the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service in Phoenix. He also works part-time as Executive Director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, a Tucson not-for-profit organization that he founded in 1993 to provide educational and scientific programs in archaeology and culture. A Registered Professional Archaeologist, he has been a recipient of the Arizona Governor’s Award in Public Archaeology.

 

The Discover Arizona series consists of four programs that each feature a different aspect of Arizona history presented by an accomplished speaker.  Programs are scheduled for every Thursday in March at 10:30 AM. 

 

All of the programs are free and open to the public.  Sun Valley Lodge is located at 12415 N. 103^rd Avenue in Sun City.  For more details please call 623-933-0137.

 

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Sun Valley Lodge is a nonprofit organization and has been providing independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care in Sun City, Arizona for over 40 years.

They was Out to Kill Us: The Power Cabin Shootout

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Contact:

Michael Kloberdanz

Sun Valley Lodge

Phone (623) 933-0137

Fax (623) 933-5846

mike@sunvalleylodge.org

www.sunvalleylodge.org

 

 

Discover Arizona Opens March 6^th

 

Sun City, Arizona – Friday, February 14, 2014 – Sun Valley Lodge will present the first in its four-part Discover Arizona series on Thursday, March 6^th at 10:30 AM.  The first program is entitled “They was Out to Kill Us: The Power Cabin Shootout” and will be presented by Dr. Heidi Osselaer. Ph.D.

 

Dr. Osselaer will discuss the deadliest gunfight in Arizona history.  The event took place in a remote canyon of the Galiuro Mountains in Graham County in 1918, decades after the frontier had closed.  Much of this shootout remains a mystery: Were the Power boys evading the draft during World War I? Who was ambushed that day, the lawmen or the Power family? On the surface the story looks like an Old West shootout, complete with a feud, murder mystery, and conspiracy theories galore, but it also foreshadows the emergence of a powerful federal government in the lives of average citizens.

 

Dr. Osselaer received her undergraduate degree in history at the University of California, Berkeley and her doctorate at Arizona State University. In 2009, the University of Arizona Press published her book, Winning Their Place: Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950, which won two Glyph Awards from the Arizona Book Publishing Association. She teaches at Arizona State University and serves on the Executive Board and the Scholars’ Committee of the Arizona Women’s Heritage Trail. She also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Arizona History.

 

The Discover Arizona series consists of four programs that each feature a different aspect of Arizona history presented by an accomplished speaker.  Programs are scheduled for every Thursday in March at 10:30 AM.   The series is made possible through a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council. 

 

All of the programs are free and open to the public.  Sun Valley Lodge is located at 12415 N. 103^rd Avenue in Sun City.  For more details please call 623-933-0137.

 

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Sun Valley Lodge is a nonprofit organization and has been providing independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care in Sun City, Arizona for over 40 years.

KPHO "Deans List"

We are thrilled to announce that our Dining Department was recently named to KPHO Channel 5’s “Dean’s List” for our outstanding marks with the Maricopa County Environmental Services Department.  The station made this announcement on the “Dirty Dining” segment of their January 9^th evening newscast.  After mentioning several “dirty” restaurants where one should use caution before dining, they then listed a few establishments with perfect scores from recent county health inspections.  Not only do we keep a spotless kitchen, but the food is great and we offer lots of healthy choices.  Stop by and ask to take look at one of our weekly menus.

Click here to see the clip: 

http://www.kpho.com/video?clipId=9715439&autostart=true

January 2014 Assisted & Independent Living Activity Calendar

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