❄️WE NEED YOUR HELP!!❄️ Our residents have transformed AlmaVia of Camarillo into a Winter Wonderland. Go to the link below, watch the video & vote for your favorite window decorations! Voting ends December 21st. Winners will be announced on December 22nd. ecs.page.link/REYAF

Learn about #healthpolicy & advance #equity in California - applications are open for the 2021-2022 Peter Harbage Health Policy Fellowship, hosted by CPEHN. RT to spread the word!

Link is up! Alameda County residents can visit this site to learn more about vaccine distribution plans and sign up to get notified when they are eligible to receive the vaccine: covid-19.acgov.org/vaccines

Our staff and residents continue to receive their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccination at Mercy Retirement & Care Center. We are doing our part to help stop the spread!  Please remember to continue to wear your mask, wash your hands & continue social distancing! #SeniorLiving

It is National Activity Professionals Week. We want to recognize and say THANK YOU to our life enrichment teams in all of our communities. The past year has been challenging, but our teams stepped up to the plate and done some amazing work! Thank you, teams, for all you do! 👏👏

We held our first vaccine clinic yesterday at AlmaVia of Camarillo for our residents and team members! We get vaccinated for ourselves, for each other, for our families and for the world! Thank you to the teams who made yesterday a success! #SeniorLiving #Vaccine #ECAStrong

Some sore arms at AlmaVia of San Rafael. We held our vaccine clinic yesterday. 112 residents were vaccinated!😷❤️💉Thank you to the teams from Marin County PHD and Kaiser who made yesterday a success delivering the vaccine! Oh and there was rainbow shining over AVSR too! #vaccine

It was a birthday surprise for our AlmaVia of Camarillo resident Joanne! We surprised her with 18 family members, spanning four generations, on Zoom to celebrate her day! The birthday girl turned 1 this year, according to the candles. As she says, after 80, you just start over.

Millions of Americans living through this pandemic without health coverage. Just awful Today, ACA exchanges opened for special enrollment About 9 million people eligible for free/cheap coverage Please share widely, encourage folks to sign up Go to: healthcare.gov

Now more than ever, we need to think about our work in new ways. I hope that my newest book with JKP Books will encourage creative exploration! #ArtTherapy #creativeart therapy #professionaldevelopment intl.jkp.com/usa/getting-on…

😭😭😭 "Americans will win against the virus and regain many aspects of their pre-pandemic lives, most scientists now believe. Of the 21 interviewed for this article, all were optimistic that the worst of the pandemic is past." nytimes.com/2021/02/25/hea…

NEW: President Biden announces we will now have enough vaccine supply for 300 million Americans by the end of May. This is an acceleration of 2 months over our prior outlook.

NEW: President Biden announces special effort to vaccinate teachers, day care workers and other school staff to get kids back to in person learning. Plan calls for states to provide first shot during the month of March using retail pharmacies.

So proud of our AlmaVia of #Camarillo community creating culinary experiences that join our #MindfulDining principles with our #ECAGreen2030 Climate Action Plan. This is how we live out our #CultureOfWellness

To prevent the next pandemic, we must fix US public health infrastructure. Decades of underinvestment led to a patchwork of underfunded and understaffed health departments and out-of-date data systems which weren't equipped to handle a modern-day health crisis.

Our own Experiential Researcher-in-Residence, Erin Partridge, Ph.D., ATR-BC, has published her SECOND book! Dr. Partridge writes about many of her experiences with Elder Care Alliance.  New Book of Interest! | Graphic Medicine ecs.page.link/XfYZJ

My latest: "Clean Air Is Green Air" linkedin.com/pulse/clean-ai… via LinkedIn I'm proud of our work on indoor air quality & energy efficiency. Please support ECA Green 2030: givingeca.org Elder Care Alliance Berkeley Engineering Forensic Analytical CITRIS #EarthDay2021

We’re ready for Earth Day tomorrow at AlmaVia of San Francisco! 🌱🌏 Resident planted seeds. We’ll watch our little plants grow over the next few months. We can’t wait to see who has the best green thumb.  #earthday #seniorliving #sfseniors #seniorcare #greenthumb

This #EarthDay2021 I would like to celebrate my colleagues at Elder Care Alliance who have embedded #EnvironmentalWellness into the core well-being framework that supports our work with older adults and those who care for them. Join Us: givingeca.org #ECAGreen2030

As we celebrate Earth Day, we are reminded sustainability is central to our mission at Elder Care Alliance. We want to celebrate our communities' accomplishments since our Green 2030 initiative launched last year. ecs.page.link/dpUx8 #EarthDay #SeniorLiving #ElderCareAlliance