Orchard Cove Wins 2013 NuStep Pinnacle Award

The following was submitted by Hebrew Senior Life Independent Living Communities.

The residents of Orchard Cove celebrated the distinguished honor of winning the 2013 NuStep Pinnacle Award. This award is given to recognize excellence in wholeperson wellness programming for older adults. Judges at NuStep unanimously decided that the Vitality 360 progam at Orchard Cove deserved the honor.

Vitality 360 is Orchard Cove's personalized approach to wellness that helps our residents not only lead a healthier life, it also gives them a richer quality of life. This program empowers seniors to take a proactive, preventive approach, helping them to live life to its fullest by setting life goals and then helping them accomplish those personal goals. Beginning with a proven, computerized assessment, your Vitality 360 coach then works with each resident to create a personalized wellness plan designed to inspire and achieve a meaningful, interesting and active life ... no matter what their age. Vitality 360 is helping to redefine aging.

Established in 1998, the NuStep Pinnacle Award is a national award that recognizes senior organizations with outstanding whole-person wellness programming &emdash; a multidimensional, interdependent model that promotes self responsibility for wellness in all dimensions of ones life, from physical and intellectual wellness to spiritual, vocational, environmental, social, and emotional wellness.