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Care4You is honored to feature Huntington Geriatric Medical Group as our Community Partner! The commitment and dedication to provide excellent care to those who seek their services makes them so very special! Thank you for all that you do in your endeavors to show your professional and very thoughtful spirit!

Huntington Geriatric Medical Group

Huntington Geriatric Medical Group is the premiere resource for seniors in Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley Area for comprehensive medical care. With the ability to provide care in the patient’s own home, to caring for patients in all other traditional clinical settings, their dedicated, compassionate providers are available and on call-24 hrs a day for their patients.

Huntington Geriatric Medical Group is a health care organization dedicated to providing high-quality, timely and creative health care for all their patients. Their success depends upon all personnel committing to the groups desire to place the patient’s needs first. They will achieve this by developing teamwork, mutual respect and the skills of all the groups personnel and health care providers. They are committed to the long-term continuity of this Medical Group through consistent growth, sensitivity to quality of life and Peace with Every Step Forward – Confident & Supported.

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Care4You is very proud to have The Kensington Sierra Madre as our Community Partner! What a beautiful place to reside and more important is the wonderful care given to those who live there! Thank you to The Kensington Sierra Madre staff who seem to go beyond in their desire to make true their mission, “We promise to love and care for your family as we do our own.”

The Kensington is an assisted living and memory care residence located in the San Gabriel Valley in the heart of Sierra Madre. It is the realization of the vision of passionate leaders in the senior living industry.

This industrious group imagined and then developed a community that takes the assisted living model of care to a higher level in an environment of comfortable eloquence, staffed by loving professionals.

The Kensington is designed to be home for seniors who need assisted living and memory care services. They believe the comfort of familiarity is precious, so their enhanced program enables them to offer care beyond what the traditional assisted living community can deliver.

They offer a full spectrum of including clinical support, including end-of-life care. No resident needs to move out if assisted living health care needs change or increase.

For those with memory loss, the Kensington offers two levels of care in specially designed neighborhoods. Connections is for residents in the early to middle stages of memory loss.
Haven is for residents in the middle to late stages. Their multifaceted program is geared to support not only residents but also their families.

The Kensington weaves heartfelt, professional care into the everyday lives of residents. With a high degree of sensitivity, their  caregivers help residents patiently with even the smallest of tasks; watch carefully for cues when they should provide more support; and retreat when appropriate so residents can remain as independent as possible. They find or create ways to help residents feel comfortable, secure, happy and dignified.

The Kensington offers a wide range of services and amenities so residents can live securely, unburdened and well attended in a beautiful community they’re pleased to call home. They want life to be as enjoyable for their residents as possible, so they assume many of the demands of daily living. This makes more room for pleasure, such as dining leisurely with family, pursuing hobbies, relaxing with a bestseller in the library or sipping cocktails each afternoon.

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About Lori Michiel Fitness

Lori and her team of trainers treat you with care, dignity and respect. They understand the best approach to help you reach your fitness goals while maintaining safety as their first priority.
Lori Michiel Fitness does not believe in the “one size fits all” or a factory-style workout. Their trained instructors and physical therapists have a knowledge-based foundation in order to design a program specifically for you.

Fitness for Seniors
Even small doses of exercise can make a difference in the lives of those with chronic conditions. Research proves that even moderate exercise can improve the quality of life and create healthy habits. Their adaptive programs and corrective exercise training have shown to have a positive effect on individuals with arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and other musculoskeletal and neurological conditions. Lori Michiel Fitness helps seniors achieve:

• Greater Independence
• Improved Balance
• Improved Circulation
• Reduced Pain
• Reduced Chance for Injury
• Stronger Bones
• Increased Flexibility

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A special concern for many seniors today is Fall Prevention. Taking one of the achievements above, ‘Improved Balance’ Lori and her trainers at Lori Michiel Fitness offer help to those in our community who wish to address their own concerns about falling.

Balance: Stay Vertical – Resist the Hidden Danger of Falling

Even in Your 30s and 40s, Specific Exercises Help Prevent a Big Danger of Aging

You know it when you feel it.

If you find yourself needing to sit down to take off your shoes, it might be time to start paying attention to your sense of balance.

People don’t usually think about balance until they fall or know someone they never thought would. There are signs that cannot be ignored such as holding onto hand rails to go up and down the stairs, wavering as you step into a pair of pants, missing the lip on a curb. These situations can be an early warning sign that your stability is starting to decline.

Once recognized, it is important not to dismiss the signs because loss of balance is usually treatable, but will often get worse if ignored. A formal assessment may not indicate balance issues, but does help predict the chances of becoming “one with the floor”.

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