Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Welcome to A Banyan Residence

Hello, friends and family, and welcome to the "official" blog of A Banyan Residence Assisted Living Resort, nestled in the heart of Venice Island in Florida.  Today, I am your host, Christine Director of Community Relations.

Over the course of things, we will be hoping to have guest "bloggers" here on our site to touch on different subjects that those with loved ones contemplating assisted living may be facing.  We will also try to keep you up to date on activities we have taking place in our community, helpful articles from different organizations, and other tidbits we find interesting or useful.

If anyone has some suggestions of topics they would like to read about, we invite you to contact our DOCR directly by emailing christine@timelesslifecare.com.

We do want to let you know that while this will be a largely informative blog, we will also have some fun as well, sharing stories that relate to the topic at hand.  Especially if it is a holiday.  We are all in this together.  We are here to help those who have a loved one in our community, who may be looking for a community, or anyone seeking any information.  No topic is too big or too small.

So, I will start of with a little introduction of myself.  After all, we will hopefully be spending a lot of time together over the next few years.  I am a mother and grandmother originally from Nebraska, but now transplanted in Florida.  My youngest son just graduated high school, so we are all on a new page of life. I like to think of myself as witty, but I think I am not nearly as witty as I imagine in my head, so please pardon some of the things I may think are hilarious, but are actually only slightly amusing.

I thoroughly enjoy my position with A Banyan and for the first time in my life, I no longer dread Mondays.  Each and every week goes so quickly here because I am always involved with the residents and their activities, my networking meetings, and now I will be keeping quite occupied with making sure you all have informative posts to look forward to.  I will try to post one new blog a week, but please forgive me if I fail to meet that goal.  I can promise at least once a month, but I will really try to do posts much more often than that.

We have a great team here in our community, and they all have a true heart for helping.  No matter what our position is in the community, we all pitch in to help whenever there is a need.  Our area has a lot of great facilities, but ours has a special niche with sprawling outdoor gardens.  Resort living at its finest!

I just want to point out a few things to think about before I sign off.  The first is called The Longest Day.  It is a fundraising/awareness effort by the Alzheiemer's Association.  For more information or to register for their event, which takes place on June 21, go to their site at www.alz.org.

Also, don't forget to go to our webpage for more pictures and information. 

www.abanyanresidence.com