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Meet Your Next-Door Neighbor!

Catching up with Boca Pointe it when my husband was I had this sense of security, safety and peace of mind that

residents who moved to alive and I felt, I just outgrew my children never have to worry about me ever again. As
soon as I got wind of this whole concept of a continuing care
it. It was much too big for
Edgewater at Boca Pointe me to handle. When the air retirement community, that was it. Whatever the future holds
conditioner stopped working for my health, I will be taken care of under one umbrella.
Former Boca Pointe resident Alice Struhl moved to her and leaks came, I said, ‘Why, Long term care? But you’re young! Did your children
apartment at Edgewater at Boca Pointe two years ago, right why am I staying here by support this?
before the COVID-19 pandemic. We sat down to ask her myself?’ It is too much of a Alice: At first my children said, ‘You’re not going to a
what she’s doing now and why she made the move when responsibility. nursing home, what are you talking about?’ But as soon as
she already lived right next door. That’s a big decision, they visited and became more knowledgeable, it was a signed
Alice, you lived at Boca Pointe Country Club, why did isn’t it? deal. They’re so happy and I’m so happy. I have made the most
you decide to move to neighboring Edgewater at Boca Alice: I took the leap wonderful friends. I have a beautiful life here. I’m so grateful
Pointe? very easily because as soon and I wish it for anyone else to be in that same position too.
Alice: I was widowed, a few years, living in a big, very as I walked in the door I Couldn’t you have waited?
beautiful apartment in Boca Pointe Country Club. I enjoyed knew right away, and it was under construction at the time. Alice: It’s never too soon. They all say, ‘It’s too soon,
I’m not ready, I still have things to do.’ I’m independent and
travel. I have a car and drive. I’m with the children when I
want to be. It’s only a change of address. That’s all it is. And
Remaining Relevant In Building there isn’t a thing they don’t offer here. It’s not just food that
they’re serving us, it’s activities and other services. There’s
Sustainability so much going on. It’s a very enriched life. If you wait, then
it’s going to be too late and you’re not going to be eligible.
Go while you can.
You moved in before COVID-19, tell us about your
By Steve Handwerker soil health, at the foundation of this conservation strategy, experience.
reframing soil conservation as a solution is coming to the Alice: I felt so safe and secure. A group of my friends
It is always a challenge foreground. This means that how the soil and trees and would go outside with masks and gather together to
for any individual, other plantings are cared for in an ongoing maintenance commiserate. We had each other, almost like a support group.
and even more so as program is significant. Our attention to this issue would We were all going through it. If I was back in my apartment,
a community, to build serve us well in promoting a sustainable environment. I would have been totally isolated. We also were among
in to the day to day Other ways of speaking up for our immediate the first to get vaccinated and it was the most incredible
maintenance routines, environment would include having a voice in the larger experience. Everyone lined up outside their front door, in
sustainable ways of caring community to promote sustainable practices and to fund their own apartment, but at the door. Nurses came with a cart
for our environment. Our organizations that do so in the local community. These and everyone was being vaccinated at one time. My daughter-
community membership’s ideas and actions can make a difference in the short in-law called it, ‘room service.’ It was absolutely amazing.
role in this process is also critical. Our voices and actions and long run! Please dear reader, take to heart these And with our community clinic, I never had to step outside
as members of this community MATTER. Do we, as approaches to conserve what this vulnerable environment or go to my primary doctor during COVID. They ordered
individuals, follow more environmentally friendly needs for our generation and future generations! medications on the spot and treated me without having to
practices? Does our community as well? go anywhere outside. That’s a big, big plus being here.
Our reasons for hope in relation to sustainable Steven E. Handwerker Ph.D. D.div, RM If you’re interested about learning more about
practices exist within the realms of these two actors. Board Certified Licensed Psychologist Edgewater at Boca Pointe call 561-465-7011. 
Given the nature of our environment, the care of the 50 years experience
trees, the soil and grassy areas are very important to our www.IAAHW.org. REVISED. II
conservation and care of the environment. To improve Books and Blogs 

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