Friday Funny ... Friday Laugh 2/4/2022
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Dodge Park (since 1967) and The Oasis at Dodge Park (since 2016), has been serving the Worcester area as the most professional, ethical and highest quality care facility for the elderly. We are committed to listening and responding to the needs of the residents, the family members and our employees. We are committed to going the extra mile when assistance is required by the public, the residents and their family members. |
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We’re proud to announce that both of our communities, Dodge Park and Oasis at Dodge Park has been honored as a 2022 #BestofSeniorLiving award winner by A Place for Mom.
Top reviews from our residents and their families showcase outstanding care provided by our staff to keep our seniors feeling safe, healthy and happy. This exclusive designation honors only the top 2-3% of senior care providers across the United States and Canada so we’re thrilled to be on this list. Learn more about the awards: aplaceformom.com/awards
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On behalf of all the staff at Dodge Park and Oasis at Dodge Park, I would like to thank all our wonderful family members for supporting our staff during the holiday season via our employees holiday fund. With the family help and our company contribution, we were able to deliver all our dedicated employee a very generous holiday and end of the year bonuses. They all deserved it very much for their hard works, and commitment to provide the best possible care |
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We are very happy to announce that both of our communities, Dodge Park and Oasis at Dodge Park earned the Caring Superstar Award for 2022.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Micha Shalev (508) 853-8180
Dodge Park Rest Home and The Oasis at Dodge Park Named “Caring Super Star of 2022” as Top Senior Living Communities
Positive Consumer Ratings Led to Industry-Leading Distinction from Caring.com
Worcester, MA December 1, 2021 — Caring.com, the nation’s top web site for senior care referrals and information announced today it has selected Dodge Park Rest Home and The Oasis at Dodge Park as "Caring Super Stars of 2022” for excellence in senior care living.
Both residential facilities earned 5-star ratings (the highest possible score) as voted by family caregivers in the national survey making them some of the highest rated facilities in the survey.
- Dodge Park and Oasis at Dodge Park are two of only six senior living facilities in all of Massachusetts to earn the Super Star Award in 2022
- Dodge Park and Oasis at Dodge Park are two of only three senior living facilities in all of Central Massachusetts to earn the Super Star Award in 2022
Two Communities – One Unparralled Level of Care and Service
"At both Dodge Park Rest Home and the Oasis at Dodge Park, we strive every day to deliver high-quality care and services for our residents. These awards help validate our delivery on that promise,” said Micha Shalev co-owner and administrator of Dodge Park Rest Home and the Oasis at Dodge Park. "On behalf of our community, staff and leadership, thank you to those who shared positive feedback about the services we offer, and to Caring.com for recognizing both of our facilities.”
Online reviews help relied on these perspectives as much as or more so than in-person recommendations from geriatric professionals or medical personnel.
Because of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Caring.com saw an increase in consumers willing to share their online review, publishing 58% more reviews per month on average in 2021 than in the same period in 2019.
Some of the positive feedback that led Dodge Park and the Oasis at Dodge Park to win include:
“We transitioned my father to the Oasis at Dodge Park three months ago as his Alzheimer's had advanced and he needed a higher level of care than his traditional assisted living community could provide but was not ready for a nursing home. Thanks to the team approach at Oasis, we have seen a dramatic improvement in my dad's health and well being in the short time that he has been there.”
“My Mother is very well taken care of, the food is great, and the staff is excellent.”
“Mom is so happy in her new home surrounded by a staff that treats her like family! We are so grateful and the peace of mind we have found at Oasis is priceless!”
“To see such transformation in mom so quickly. She is looking more focused and has her smile back. She has made friends. Her caregivers have gotten her out of a wheelchair and walking around. Their communication with the family is constant.”
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Posted by lcazzaniga on 02/01/22
Relationship: I am a friend or relative of a current resident
Rating: 5 / 5 Stars
Review text:
Both my parents are now guests at OASIS, and we are very happy with the support and assistance they are both receiving. Our mom has Parkinson's, and therefore requires a high level of care, which she receives in a very caring and loving environment. While my dad is more mobile, his "temperament" requires a more delicate approach, and the staff and management at OASIS do a superb job of managing any situation and doing the extra little things that make him more comfortable - whether it be offering him a cappuccino in the morning, occasionally arranging for him to get a slice of special Italian cake with his meals, and, when he was able, even assisting him with an exercise bike that reminded him of his glory days biking through Europe. We are sad we cannot directly give our parents the care they need at this stage of their lives, but feel very comfortable in the choice of OASIS to give them the best care we could find.
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New drug screening method answers why Alzheimer’s drugs fail, suggests new targets |
By analyzing disease mechanisms in human neurons, researchers led by the University of California San Diego developed a new method to screen drugs for treating Alzheimer's disease. Their work sheds light on why Alzheimer's drugs so far have been ineffective at curing or reversing the disease and identifies new targets for drug development.
The findings, reported in a paper published Jan. 27 in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, could help pave the way for radically new therapeutic approaches to treating Alzheimer's.
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Coffee aids in kidney disease fight, study says
Among coffee’s health benefits may be a reduced risk of death from kidney disease, according to the Healthline website.
A study recently written up in the journal Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation examined data from 4,863 Americans.
The subjects were divided into four groups. Group One consumed the amount of caffeine in one cup of iced tea per day. Group Two took caffeine equivalent to one cup of coffee per day. Group Three had one or two cups, and Group Four had multiple cups per day.
Subjects in Group Two, researchers found, had a 12 percent lower risk of dying from kidney disease. Group Three showed a 22 percent lower risk, and Group Four, which consumed the highest amount of caffeine per day, saw a 24 percent lower risk.
Scientists caution that caffeine poses other health risks, and patients on fluid-restricted diets should take coffee into account of their daily fluid intake. Cream, creamers, and syrups can also cause problems for people with kidney disease, including increased phosphorus and potassium levels. Check with your doctor, as always.
Water might help reduce women’s UTIs
Women who suffer from frequent urinary tract infections (UTIs) may find relief by simply drinking more water, an article on the WebMD website advises.
A yearlong study in Europe followed 140 premenopausal women who experienced recurring UTIs at high rates. At the beginning, the subjects drank less than six eight-ounce glasses of water per day. As the year went on, half the participants drank slightly more than six glasses, while the rest kept to the same regimen.
Researchers found a significant reduction of UTIs among the women who drank more water per day. The average number of UTIs among subjects in the first group was 3.2, but dropped to 1.7 for women whose water intake increased.
“Drinking more water to improve one’s health is probably safe and, if tap is used, pretty inexpensive,” said one doctor (who was not involved in the study). “Producing additional urine—and thus increasing voiding frequency—may raise one’s awareness of the importance of keeping the bladder as empty as possible, which can help reduce UTIs.”
Cut huge hospital bills down to size
A trip to the hospital can be expensive. Patients around the country have reported being charged exorbitant amounts of money: One family, for example, received a bill for $18,000 for a nap and a bottle of baby formula after taking their infant son the emergency room after he hit his head, according to a story on the Fox News website.
You don’t always have to accept the charges, though. Here’s how to successfully question your hospital bill:
• Speak up in the ER. Ask questions, especially if your emergency isn’t life-threatening. Maybe you can schedule a follow-up appointment with your doctor for an X-ray instead of going through the ER’s services, which tend to be much costlier.
• Shop around. If you know you’re going to need a procedure, call a selection of hospitals ahead of time and ask about charges. Most will be able to quote you a price.
• Get an itemized bill. Many bills are sent out with lots of money charged for “miscellaneous expenses,” which doesn’t let you look for mistakes or ask reasonable questions about your treatment.
• Fight back. If the charges seem wrong, contact the hospital’s billing apartment. Just do it quickly, before it gets outsourced to a billing office that may be out of state and harder to negotiate with.
Quotes
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. —Henry David Thoreau
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. —Joseph Addison
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What’s good for the heart is good for the brain |
The same risk factors that contribute to making heart disease the leading cause of death worldwide also impact the rising global prevalence of brain disease, including stroke, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, according to the American Heart Association's Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics -- 2022 Update, published today in the Association's flagship, peer-reviewed journal Circulation. Experts say maintaining a healthy weight, managing your blood pressure and following other heart-healthy lifestyle behaviors can also support good brain health.
Optimal brain health includes the functional ability to perform all the diverse tasks for which the brain is responsible, including movement, perception, learning and memory, communication, problem solving, judgment, decision making and emotion.
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NEW - Take The Dodge Park and Oasis at Dodge Park Virtual Tour |
We are very please to announce that we just completed the virtual tours for Dodge Park and Oasis facilities.
To review the virtual tours visits our websites at:
https://dodgepark.com/life-at-dodge-park/360-image-gallery/
https://www.oasisatdodgepark.com/
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Please Review Our Recent Testimonial
To Review more testimonial please visit:
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Best Senior Living:
Caring Stars 2022
It’s not always easy knowing where to start in the search for a quality senior living community for yourself or a loved one – the sheer number of options can be overwhelming, and finding the right home is crucial to future happiness and well-being.
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Our Monthly Support Group With Dennis Goguen is Ongoing.
Next Meeting is
February 16, 2021
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We can help caregivers with support, education and strategies
to help you learn more about the disease and how to deal with
difficult situations. We brainstorm creative solutions for
challenging care-giving situations and each meeting is facilitated
by a professional trained in Alzheimer’s and dementia care.
The support group will meet via zoom on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.
To register please contact Micha Shalev at :
in order to get the zoom sign in information.
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Choosing the Right Senior Health Care Facility |
Many things should be considered when selecting a senior health care facility for your loved one. When Alzheimer’s and Dementia are also part of the equation, these questions become even more important. So, when the time comes to choose a senior health care or memory care facility, consider the following most important questions:
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What is not included in the daily rate
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What conditions can’t they handle (physical, mental & behavior)
- Do they have a nurse on site 24/7 for PRN medication (as needed)
- What happens when private funds are gone.
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The Oasis at Dodge Park Difference |
The environment at the Oasis at Dodge Park is Different
Our home-like environment provides opportunities for residents to have privacy, sufficient lighting, pleasant music and multiple opportunities to eat and drink, in small setting, and also minimizes negative stimuli such as loud overhead paging and glare.
Oasis at Dodge Park has private rooms and bathrooms and the opportunity for residents to have personal furnishings, pictures and other items in their living area. This is their life and their home.
When they are able, residents are encouraged to move freely around the facility with opportunities for safe wandering. This will be able to achieve through our unique enclose garden and indoor open recreation area, where the idea is to bring the outdoor indoor.
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We are a Caring Superstar Community for 2022
Special thanks to all the wonderful staff members who working very hard through the pandemic to deliver a one of a kind memory care experience to our residents.
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Caring.com Announces Top-Rated Senior Living and Memory Care Communities Nationwide, the "Caring Stars and Caring Super Star of 2022"
Caring.com announced recently it has selected the Dodge Park and the Oasis at Dodge Park as a "Caring Super Star" communities (again) for 2022.
It is our honor to be consider as one of top providers in the nation and the only MA community that awarded this unique recognition.
"At both Dodge Park Rest Home and the Oasis at Dodge Park, we strive every day to deliver high-quality care and services for our beloved residents. These awards help validate our delivery on that promise," said Micha Shalev and Ben Herlinger, co-owners and administrator of Dodge Park Rest Home and the Oasis at Dodge Park. "On behalf of our community staff and leadership, thank you to those who shared positive feedback about the services we offer, and to Caring.com for recognizing both of our facilities in past years and 2022."
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Selecting The Right Community For
Your Loved One
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Download our FREE Guide for choosing a Residential Care Community for your loved one.
One of life’s greatest challenges is deciding when a loved one is no longer capable of living independently. Often, a time of crisis precipitates this decision, such as when the individual is ready to leave the hospital after a serious illness, or when events make it clear that severe limitations exist.
A good starting place for the family and the individual in need is to discuss the options available for best meeting their needs. A hospital social worker, physician or representative of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs may be helpful. Always she has the right to be involved in this consequential decision.
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- No increases ever
- Comfort and convenience of Month-to-month - no long-term lease
- No buy-ins or long-term commitments
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Read the February 2022 Newsletter |
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In this month's issue...
This Month...Special Days
Nutrition Corner...Tips for Good Health
Support Group...Information and Schedule
Celebrating...Our Birthdays!
Calendar of Events ...Dodge Park
and Oasis Activities & Events
And much, much more...
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Our mission is to amuse you with a wide variety of funny clean jokes, amusing anecdotes and thought provoking images. We also aim to surprise, but never to shock or offend. Our ongoing project is to collect jokes which reflect each month.
I know that we are experience scary time and in uncharted water. I hope I can get you few moment of laugh. We all need this.
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Husband yells into the phone "How the hell would I know. I'm not a weatherman."
Wife asks him "What's that all about?"
He says "Some guy keeps calling and asking if the coast is clear."
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We had to stop eating with metal cutlery.
Some people walked around for days with spoons or forks stuck to their tongues!
Hitchhikers were holding up pictures of thumbs!
Roosters were rushing into Kentucky Fried Chicken and begging to use the pressure cooker!
When I dialed 911, a recorded message said to phone back in the spring!
The optician was giving away free ice scrapers with every new pair of eyeglasses!
Kids were using a new excuse to stay up late: "But Mom, my pyjamas haven't thawed out yet!"
Richard Simmons started wearing pants!
A streaker froze in mid-streak!
The town council just stuck a plaque on him and pretended he was a Greek statue until spring.
UN weapons inspectors suddenly decided that chemical weapons might be hidden in Hawaii! Pickpockets were sticking their hands in strangers' pockets just to keep them warm!
The squirrels in the park were throwing themselves at an electric fence!
I chipped a tooth on my soup!
My Dad was wearing golfing gloves on both hands!
The dogs were wearing cats!
Starbucks was serving coffee on a stick!
People with traffic tickets would plead guilty and beg for the electric chair!
Terrorists started to stockpile weapons-grade hot chocolate!
Levi Strauss started manufacturing electric jeans!
The rats were bribing the alley cats for a snuggle.
We had to chop up the piano for firewood - but we only got two chords.
We had to carry around hammers and chisels so we could get out of our parkas!
When we milked the cows, we got ice cream!
When we milked the brown cows - we got chocolate ice cream!
Words froze in the air.
If you wanted to hear what someone said, you had to grab a handful of sentences and take them in by the fire!
The dogs had to put jumper cables on the rabbits - just to get them running!
Playboy magazine stopped publishing because no women would take their clothes off.
We pulled everything out of the freezer and huddled inside it to warm up!
The Husky Association was making emergency service calls to get the dog teams started!
When we parked the sled, we either had to plug in the dogs - or keep them running in place!
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Winters are fierce in Minnesota where he lives, so the owner of a construction project felt he was doing a good deed when he bought earmuffs for his foreman. Noticing, however, that the foreman wasn't wearing the earmuffs even on the bitterest day, the project manager asked, "Didn't you like the muffs?" The Foreman said, "They're a thing of beauty." "Why don't you wear them?" The Project Manager said. The Foreman explained, "I was wearing them the first day, and somebody offered to buy me lunch, but I didn't hear him! Never again, never again!" |
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My husband and I purchased an old home in Northern New York State from two elderly sisters. Winter was fast approaching and I was concerned about the house's lack of insulation. "If they could live here all those years, so can we!" my husband confidently declared. One November night the temperature plunged to below zero, and we woke up to find interior walls covered with frost. My husband called the sisters to ask how they had kept the house warm. After a rather brief conversation, he hung up. "For the past 30 years," he muttered, "they've gone to Florida for the winter." |
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The Indians asked their Chief in Autumn if the Winter was going to be cold or not. Not really knowing an answer, the chief replies that the Winter was going to be cold and that the members of the village were to collect wood to be prepared. Being a good leader, he then went to the next phone booth and called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this winter to be cold?" The man on the phone responded, "This Winter is going to be quite cold indeed." So the Chief went back to speed up his people to collect even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again, "Is it going to be a very cold winter?" "Yes", the man replied, "it's going to be a very cold Winter." So the Chief goes back to his people and orders them to go and find every scrap of wood they can find. Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again: "Are you absolutely sure that the Winter is going to be very cold?" "Absolutely," the man replies, "the Indians are collecting wood like crazy!"
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1) What is the best kind of cereal to eat in winter? Frosted Flakes!
2) What can you catch with your eyes closed? A cold!
3) What do you get in December that you can't have in any other month? The letter "D"!
4) What do you call a penguin in the Sahara Desert? Lost!
5) What is an "ig"? An snow house without a loo!
6) Where do arctic seals go to see movies? The dive-in!
7) What do trees say after a long winter? What a re-leaf...
8) What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire? Frostbite!
9) What did the walrus say when it was late? Sorry, my iceberg hit a ship.
10) Why did the man put his money in the freezer? He wanted cold hard cash!
11) What did the icy road say to the car? "Want to go for a spin?"
12) How do you know when it's too cold for a picnic? When you chip your tooth on the soup!
13) What is the Ice Queen's favorite cake? She doesn't mind the flavor as long as it has lots of frosting!
14) How does Jack Frost get to work? By icicle!
15) What do you call a cat on ice? One cool cat!
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101/102 Randolph Road
Worcester, MA 01606
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(508) 853-8180
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