Senior citizens and college students to pair up, virtually, through innovative program Friendship Village and Create Circles are partnering to help combat the loneliness many older adults are facing due to social isolation as a result of the COVID-19 stay-at-home order. The non-profit Create Circles, with the support of Washington University’s geriatricians, is focused on bringing the university’s students, as well as various students from colleges around Missouri, together – virtually – with older individuals to bring humanity and social connection back. Student volunteers communicate and build relationships with the […]

A HUGE THANK YOU to Bill Letchworth and all the folks at Soccer Master who donated 100 meals (WITH a frozen treat from Culver’s!) to our Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation employees today (April 24th) at Friendship Village Sunset Hills! Soccer Master has been coordinating a donation effort for the last several weeks as they have been selling “#ThankYouSTLMedicalHeroes” t-shirts for $20 and donating $10 from each sale to be able to buy meals to donate to HEALTHCARE HEROES who have been working in the fight against COVID-19. Friendship Village Sunset […]

Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Monday, April 27, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: It is another beautiful morning, with maybe a little rain on the way, at Friendship Villages on this Monday, April, 27, 2020. We are excited to be expecting 2 of our residents who have been in the hospital to return to the Chesterfield campus in the next day or so! While cleared from the hospital, we are going to observe and care for them in our COVID […]

Senior living administrator shared how community is working to keep residents healthy during Covid-19 Friendship Village’s Assisted Living Administrator, Nicole Summers, recently attended a virtual National Roundtable for senior living communities where she served as a panelist to talk about how Friendship Village is helping keep its residents healthy during COVID-19 and how other communities can do the same. The group of experts came together to discuss their solutions to current problems within their field of work. This format allowed other interested parties to listen in to gain insight and […]