Resident Adele Pickett recognizes that people have a choice of how to go through their lives:
existing or really
living.
All her life, Adele has chosen living. When her beloved husband died, she needed to take stock and make a new plan. She attended an Emerald Heights open house and was taken with the beautiful grounds, friendly people and services.
"I was impressed with the life care option and thought immediately what a great gift this would be for my children," she said.
She joined the Future Residents list, thinking she wasn't quite ready to move. But just six months later, she was contacted about a one-bedroom apartment.
"I had to jump at the chance to move," Adele says. "There were five people ahead of me on the waiting list, but they weren't ready. I didn't know when I might be called again. I was determined to be ready, willing and able."
Adele is now settled into her one-bedroom apartment, enjoying her new neighbors, spending time with her children and grandchildren, volunteering at Evergreen Hospital, and living her life on her own terms.
You can read more of Adele's story -- and her clever strategy for meeting and learning other people's stories --
online here.
