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THE CYPRESS WOODS CARE CENTER SAMPLER
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THE CYPRESS WOODS CARE CENTER SAMPLERPosted Wednesday, March 10, 2010
 St. Patrick’s Day Party On Wednesday - March 17, we will be having a St. Patrick’s Day Party with green cake and Irish ballads. Spring Planting We will be starting our spring garden on Friday March 19. We would love to have as many families and friends to help as possible. If you would like to donate some plants, please contact the activity department. Family Council The Family Council is made up of family members of residents in a facility working together as part of a family council can play a crucial role in voicing concerns, supporting new family members and residents, and supporting facility efforts to make care and life in the facility the best it can be. · Establish a “buddy system” where families from the family council are “assigned” to new family members to welcome them, answer any questions they may have from a family’s perspective, and invite them to participate in the family council. Annual Easter Egg Hunt Good Friday, April 2, 2:30 p.m. - Hundreds of eggs are hidden with prizes for each age category. All children ages 0-12 years are encouraged to attend. The residents enjoy watching the children hunt Easter eggs on the lawn. Refreshments to follow in the dinning room.  Advance Directives Admission to a long term care facility brings with it the necessity of many difficult issues. One of the most difficult is the decision that deals with end of life. While this is difficult, Cypress Woods must inquire so we can give the end of life care you want. When possible, I like to share research information with you so you can make your decisions with as much information as possible. Advance care planning means planning ahead for how you want to be treated if you are very ill or near death. Sometimes when people are in an accident or have an illness that will cause them to die they are not able to talk or to let others know how they feel. Texas law allows you to tell your doctor how you want to be treated by using an advance directive. One of the pivotal decisions is whether or not to use technologies aimed at restoring life like cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); In the previous years many have tried to assess whether it was effective for long term care residents. Murphey et al reported that 2 of 117 (2%) nursing home patients survived a resuscitation attempt. Another pivotal decision is whether or not to prolong life with aides like tube feeding and dialysis.  Think about what you would want to happen if you could not talk or communicate with anyone. Find out about what kinds of choices you will need to make if you become very ill whether at home, in a nursing home or in a hospital. Talk with your family and doctor about how you want to be treated. Fill out the papers that spell out what you want if you are in an accident or become sick. Tell people what you have decided. Everyone is going to die sometime, but not everyone gets to choose how they want to be treated at the end of their life. Taking the time to do advance care planning can help family members and medical staff act for you. They will be faced with hard decisions near the time of your death. Having an advance care plan lets you make sure that you are treated according to your values and wishes regardless of whether you can speak for yourself. For more information regarding the issues or how to acquire the forms contact: Velda Plelps Wasson—Owner/Administrator Claire Eggert—Assistant Administrator Donna Dunlap—Social Worker 
Mary Hall 3/1/1944 Employees:  Ebony Davis 3/1
Our Thoughts and Prayers go out to the Families of: Ruth Jadwin
Garden Club Last year, First Lady Michelle Obama set a wonderful example for the American people by planting an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House. In doing so, she tied this signature project to her other goals, including encouraging American families to eat healthier foods and making the White House accessible to area residents.  Indeed, Mrs. Obama has initiated a new resurgence of gardening-and organic gardening, at that. Experts agree that natural methods using non-chemical fertilizers and insect repellants result in more nutritious food and have none of the potentially harmful side effects. Growing one’s own food is also an economically smart thing to do, producing fresher, more nutritious vegetables at a cheaper price. Then there is is the intrinsic value of watching what one has planted grow into something pleasing and practical. This is the first garden at the White House since Elenor Roosevelt planted her Victory Garden, and Americans all over the country followed suit. So, come and join us for our Garden day. We would love to have you come and join us make our garden a beautiful place to sit and enjoy during the spring and summer months.
 Daylight Savings Time (March 14, 2010) is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1907 by the English builder William Willett. Many countries have used it since then; details vary by location and change occasionally. The practice is controversial. Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but causes problems for farming, entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun. Traffic fatalities are reduced when there is extra afternoon daylight; its effect on health and crime is less clear. Although an early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity, modern heating and cooling usage patterns greatly differ, and research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited and often contradictory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back,  May the sun shine warm upon your face, May the rains fall soft upon your fields, And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand. Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s Party’.” —Robin Williams  |
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