Heart to Home | Easter Pics!

We had a lot of fun on Easter this year at Heart to Home. Prior to Easter we worked on some tasty treats, filled Easter eggs for our visitors and prepared for our big Ham dinner. Here are some photos from our Easter weekend...

"Starting Young with Alzheimer's" | Newspaper Article

Interesting newspaper article regarding early onset Alzheimer's disease in the Minneapolis StarTribune.

Earth Day at Heart to Home

Did you know that Heart to Home's Mendakota Manor was built GREEN and uses a GeoComfort Geothermal heating and cooling system? According to data supplied by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Geothermal Technologies, nearly 40% of all U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the result of using energy to heat, cool and provide hot water for buildings. This is about the same amount of CO2 contributed by the transportation sector. Versus a conventional fossil fuel system, a standard 3-ton residential geothermal system (such as the one used by Heart to Home) produces approximately one less pound of carbon dioxide (CO2) for every hour of use. Over twenty years, the carbon footprint reduction is equivalent to planting 120,000 acres of trees or converting over 58,000 cars to zero emission vehicles.

Como Zoo & Conservatory Outing

The residents, resident families and staff had a wonderful time on our Como Zoo & Conservatory outing yesterday! Below is a slide show of our trip. Some highlights included the up-close visit with a sloth, the spring flower exhibit and the primate building. Happy spring!

Activities at Heart to Home!

We had a fun weekend at Heart to Home. Anne, our recreational therapist, baked cookies with some residents in our sun room.

We also painted birdhouses in preparation for spring!

Melissa, our visiting music therapist, leads a therapy session that was enjoyed by everyone!

Excellent Conference!

The Meeting of the Minds: Dementia Conference 2011 was an outstanding event! Thank you to all of the hard working people at the Alzheimer's Association, Mayo Clinic, volunteers and speakers / educators who made it such a remarkable day.

Who Who Whooooo?

A wonderful book that was recently published by a resident of Heart to Home is currently available for purchase on Amazon.com. We are so proud of her achievements with this wonderful book! Purchase your copy today by clicking the Amazon.com link.

Heart to Home | Weekend Fun!

The staff and residents had a fun weekend baking and decorating cookies, arranging flowers and finishing their Valentine's projects!

Lots of smiles!

Heart to Home | Activities with Anne!

A fun game of bingo!

Baking cookies...

Working on a fun Valentine's project (cloth wreath's). We are all looking forward to our Valentine's party!

Heart to Home | Birthday Parties!

We had 2 fun birthday parties over the past week at Mendota Manor! The food and cake requests were picked out by each resident celebrating their big day. Fun was had by all!