{"id":12774,"date":"2017-11-09T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/?p=12774"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:22:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:22:20","slug":"ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans\"5<\/h1>\n

Veteran\u2019s Day is November 11, 2017, and there are over 9 million senior veterans<\/strong><\/a> living in the United States. That is why assisted living communities have both an opportunity and responsibility to do something special for veteran residents this time of year.<\/p>\n

If you could use some help figuring out how to honor your veteran residents, here are a few examples of what other assisted living\u00a0communities have planned:<\/p>\n

1. Decorate the community.<\/h3>\n

You\u2019re probably already in the habit of decorating for some of the other holidays, so why not do the same for Veteran\u2019s Day?<\/p>\n

According to Alexis Stengel from Whitehall Manor<\/strong><\/a> in Pennsylvania, they go all out with the decorations: \u201cWe decorate our activity room in red, white and blue… balloons, flags and tablecloths. I set special tables for our vets, with special treats and goody bags. I also get items specific to their branch of service to hand out to each one, along with flag pins.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Artis Senior Living of Mason<\/a><\/strong>, the veterans participate to help create the decorations. Diana Cunningham explains, \u201cAll of our veterans helped to paint a large flag out of a wooden pallet and we will have that on display.\u201d<\/p>\n

Decorating can be a patriotic activity the residents help out with in advance of Veteran\u2019s Day so you get the whole community in the spirit. Anyone visiting the residence will know exactly how much you value your veterans.<\/p>\n

2. Host a ceremony.<\/h3>\n

On the day of, you can go further and have an entire ceremony dedicated to your resident veterans. According to Kristin Townsley, from Artis Senior Living of Mason, \u201cWe are having a Veteran’s Day program on November 10th. We will have snacks and refreshments. We will honor all of our veterans and pin them with an American Flag.\u201d<\/p>\n

Traditions at Beaumont<\/a><\/strong> in Kentucky even brings in some local future veterans to celebrate. \u201cWe will have a local ROTC with color\u00a0guard coming in for a ceremony. We will be pinning all of our veterans and presenting flags to the widows of vets,\u201d says Erin Hosking.<\/p>\n

A ceremony gives you the chance to draw attention to your resident veterans and show them they\u2019re appreciated in front of the entire assisted living community.<\/p>\n

3. Involve local students.<\/h3>\n

Residents of assisted living homes spend a lot of time surrounded by other seniors. One way you can make your celebrations more special is by getting some of the local kids or teens in your community involved.<\/p>\n

Traditions of Beaumont invites their local ROTC, as previously mentioned. Melissa Smith from The Legacy at Forest Ridge<\/strong><\/a> shares that they celebrate with \u201ca special musical performance from Sound of Luke,\u201d a local children\u2019s choir. The Pearl of Jamestown also recruits local schoolchildren to send in letters of appreciation to their veterans that go up on the wall of honor they create.<\/p>\n

Hearing from you and their fellow residents is nice, but hearing from the country\u2019s youth lets them know their service still matters to future generations.<\/p>\n

4. Set up a wall of honor.<\/h3>\n

Put your veterans on display in the\u00a0community to help honor them. Brook Martin Kitto from\u00a0The Pearl at Jamestown<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0residence in Baton Rouge says their fourteen veteran residents \u201cwill be honored at the community with a wall with pictures of our residents in uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not the only ones honoring their veterans this way, a number of retirement communities run by Holiday Retirement have created walls of honor\u00a0you can see examples of<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and Belmont Village created a\u00a0page on their website<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0collecting pictures of their veterans with a few lines from each one about their service.<\/p>\n

5. Take them out to lunch.<\/h3>\n

The food at your assisted living community may be amazing, but your residents probably still feel like it\u2019s something special when they get to go out to eat for an occasion.<\/p>\n

Alexis Stengel from Whitehall Manor says they take advantage of that:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take as many that want to participate to Chili’s Restaurant to take advantage of the free lunch they offer to our veterans. I love this, because while we are there, they are treated like celebrities by both staff and patrons, who continually come up to them thanking them for their service.\u201d<\/p>\n

For these veterans, not only do they see appreciation from their fellow residents, they get to hear from strangers (many of them young) who tell them how much their service mattered. For some veterans, that can be especially meaningful.<\/p>\n

Honoring veterans is something easy you can do that makes a big difference in your residents’ lives. Show them you care and their service is still appreciated, no matter how long ago it was. They\u2019ll never tire of knowing their years in service to the country mattered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans Veteran\u2019s Day is November 11, 2017, and there are over 9 million senior veterans living in the United States. That is why assisted living communities have both an opportunity and responsibility to do something special for veteran residents this time of year. If you could use some help figuring out how to honor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":12835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[14,551,621,462],"class_list":{"0":"post-12774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-owners","8":"tag-assisted-living-2","9":"tag-holidays","10":"tag-senior-veterans","11":"tag-veterans-day"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over 9 million veterans are seniors and some may live in your assisted living community. Here are five ways to honor veterans in assisted living.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over 9 million veterans are seniors and some may live in your assisted living community. Here are five ways to honor veterans in assisted living.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SeniorAdvisor.com Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-11-09T13:00:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-11-10T18:22:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/img.prod.aplaceformom.com\/main\/uploads\/sa-blog\/2017\/11\/5-ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kristen Hicks\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kristen Hicks\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/\",\"name\":\"5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/img.prod.aplaceformom.com\/main\/uploads\/sa-blog\/2017\/11\/5-ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-11-09T13:00:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-11-10T18:22:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/155f7689ce014c42c1db768ba81e1ce6\"},\"description\":\"Over 9 million veterans are seniors and some may live in your assisted living community. Here are five ways to honor veterans in assisted living.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/img.prod.aplaceformom.com\/main\/uploads\/sa-blog\/2017\/11\/5-ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/img.prod.aplaceformom.com\/main\/uploads\/sa-blog\/2017\/11\/5-ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":630,\"caption\":\"5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"SeniorAdvisor.com Blog\",\"description\":\"Empowering Families in their Search for Care\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/155f7689ce014c42c1db768ba81e1ce6\",\"name\":\"Kristen Hicks\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/457ef8a7379a7f4f39d7810b58ef0a0f?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/457ef8a7379a7f4f39d7810b58ef0a0f?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Kristen Hicks\"},\"description\":\"Kristen Hicks is an Austin-based copywriter and lifelong student with an ongoing curiousity to learn and explore new things. She turns that interest to researching and exploring subjects helpful to seniors and their families for SeniorAdvisor.com.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/author\/kristenh\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans","description":"Over 9 million veterans are seniors and some may live in your assisted living community. Here are five ways to honor veterans in assisted living.","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans","og_description":"Over 9 million veterans are seniors and some may live in your assisted living community. Here are five ways to honor veterans in assisted living.","og_site_name":"SeniorAdvisor.com Blog","article_published_time":"2017-11-09T13:00:27+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-11-10T18:22:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/img.prod.aplaceformom.com\/main\/uploads\/sa-blog\/2017\/11\/5-ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kristen Hicks","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kristen Hicks","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/","url":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/","name":"5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/img.prod.aplaceformom.com\/main\/uploads\/sa-blog\/2017\/11\/5-ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans.jpg","datePublished":"2017-11-09T13:00:27+00:00","dateModified":"2017-11-10T18:22:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/155f7689ce014c42c1db768ba81e1ce6"},"description":"Over 9 million veterans are seniors and some may live in your assisted living community. Here are five ways to honor veterans in assisted living.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/img.prod.aplaceformom.com\/main\/uploads\/sa-blog\/2017\/11\/5-ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/img.prod.aplaceformom.com\/main\/uploads\/sa-blog\/2017\/11\/5-ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"caption":"5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/ways-assisted-living-communities-honor-veterans\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"5 Ways Assisted Living Communities Honor Veterans"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/","name":"SeniorAdvisor.com Blog","description":"Empowering Families in their Search for Care","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/155f7689ce014c42c1db768ba81e1ce6","name":"Kristen Hicks","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.senioradvisor.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/457ef8a7379a7f4f39d7810b58ef0a0f?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/457ef8a7379a7f4f39d7810b58ef0a0f?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","caption":"Kristen Hicks"},"description":"Kristen Hicks is an Austin-based copywriter and lifelong student with an ongoing curiousity to learn and explore new things. She turns that interest to researching and exploring subjects helpful to seniors and their families for SeniorAdvisor.com.","url":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/author\/kristenh\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12774"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12839,"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774\/revisions\/12839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d30braiqprupoq.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}