Category: Stories

Mel Michiels is an Air Force veteran. While in the Air Force, Mel worked in North Africa preparing bombers.  He was an airplane mechanic, flight instructor, pilot, painted planes and he did sheet metal work. His spark? He is very proud of the fact that he painted a plane for a famous racer named Steve […]

Erna Collins had a health scare that nearly cost her life. Three years later, Erna is getting ready to celebrate her 98th birthday in October and attended a family reunion this past summer. How? Lifespark, helped create a new pathway. Mary, a nurse who is Erna’s Life Care Manager, visits Erna weekly, monitoring her health […]

There’s one thing Beverly Urness never forgets: playing the piano. Over the past 40 years, Beverly has taught piano to more than 100 students. In recent years, though, living independently had become a challenge to Beverly as her dementia progressed. Today, she’s a Lifespark client, living with dementia in the Memory Care community at Summit […]

With fire in her personality, Maxine Tenney has passion in her life and she has no plans to waste it. According to Maxine’s Lifespark Life Care Manager (LCM), Maxine has memory loss which is what initially brought her to the Reflections community at the Brightondale campus, a Silver Crest property, where Lifespark partners with SilverCrest […]

At 96, Evelyn Macy sparked her life by getting her ears pierced. But getting there was not a straight path. Kristine, a registered nurse who has been Evelyn’s Life Care Manager for the past three years, shared that Evelyn is a stoic and serious woman. As part of the regular Lifespark Experience discovery, Kristine learned […]