Recent News

WATERFORD, MI - Numerous renovations and other improvements to campus buildings are helping Lourdes Senior Community remain a premier residence for independent and assisted living, along with nursing and memory care.

Fox Manor on the Lake Independent Living has benefited from numerous renovations in the dining area: new flooring, tables and chairs, silverware and glasses, window treatments with shades and valances, French entry doors, and a remodeled chapel that also features French doors, plus artwork and fresh paint on the walls. In addition, grants have provided outdoor bird feeders and flower planters.

GREAT BEND, KS - Last evening [March 18] Rabbi Moti Rieber, director of Kansas Interfaith Power and Light, based in Lawrence, Kansas, came to the Dominican Sisters of Peace Great Bend Motherhouse to present a program called "Caring for Creation: Faith-Based Environmental Activism and the Challenges We Face." Rabbi Moti's one hour presentation focused on the environmental challenges that face us and what we, as church members and citizens in Barton, Rush, and Pawnee counties of Kansas, can do to address these complicated and difficult issues. Kansas Interfaith Power and Light seeks to engage Christian churches and other faith communities in environmental stewardship and sustainable practices through the promotion of energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy.

WATERFORD, MI - Residents of Fox Manor on the Lake at Lourdes Senior Community are revved up every other Thursday for Drums Alive!, a dance and exercise program in the independent living building at 2350 Watkins Lake Road. The next sessions are March 21 and April 4 at 1:30pm.

Residents experience therapy by combining drumming on large exercise balls with other physical movements to increase energy levels and improve health while enjoying various types of music. The sessions are led by Pam Teimorzadeh from SydFit in Rochester Hills.

This program, scheduled to take place every two weeks, was made possible when Lourdes received a $2,000 minigrant from the Brooksie Way program that supports health and fitness in Oakland County. Lourdes had applied for the grant in cooperation with the Waterford Parks and Recreation Department.

WATERFORD, MI - Residents of Fox Manor on the Lake in the Lourdes Senior Community aren't waiting for the snow to thaw before going on bike rides. Fox resident Helen Suchara scooted around the facility recently on one of two bikes that were purchased through the Lourdes St. Rose of Lima Grant.

In 2007, the Lourdes Board of Directors established the grant that has grown to $20,000. Non-management staff can submit requests up to $2,000 for materials or efforts that enhance quality of life and/or an educational program. The grant is named in honor of St. Rose of Lima (1586-1617), patron saint of the Dominican Sisters of Oxford.