Health & Fitness
Human Connection between Students and Seniors at Kindred-Milwaukee Memory Care Unit
Students from Whitnall High School came to Kindred Transitional Care & Rehabilitation-Milwaukee where they visited on their Memory Care Unit and they created a piece of work from an elder's memory.
Jennifer Anderson, Program Coordinator, at Kindred Transitional Care & Rehabilition-Milwaukee works on their Memory Care Unit. She is always looking for new ways to make the lives of people living with Dementia just a little better by bringing the community in to work with the seniors. Well this again was accomplished with the help of Jessica Duernberger an art teacher from Whitnall High School. Jessica first had her students research the effects of Dementia and then the students had to come up with a memory to illustrate and wrote a story relating to their images. The stories are in the perspective of the highschooler but have clear connections to the Elder they met. The website to view these beautiful pieces of art can be found at www.whitnall.org/art