This article was originally published by Simmons University. View the full article here. As a registered art therapist, licensed mental health counselor, and certified dementia practitioner, Meredith Griffiths ’03 is providing the benefits of art-based therapy to the elderly community. Griffiths is currently overseeing a partnership between the Goddard House, a senior living residence in…
Goddard House expands its signature Opening Minds through Art program to include older adults in the Boston community across a wide spectrum of abilities, strengths and challenges to help ease social isolation and loneliness. Note: This article was originally published in the Boston Globe. Download the full article here.
Our Goddard House sponsored screening of ‘All The Lonely People’ was recently covered in the Boston Globe here.
BROOKLINE, MA — Coolidge Corner Theatre is a hosting a special advance screening of “All the Lonely People,” a new social impact film, on Thursday, December 9 at 6 p.m. The documentary, from the filmmakers of Gen Silent, shows loneliness and social isolation challenges and solutions. Through a range of personal stories, Director Stu Maddux…
Goddard House Assisted Living opened a new art exhibit in its Gallery M featuring the paintings of resident Arlene Williamson. Williamson has been involved with acrylic painting at Goddard House since 2015, when she joined the Open Art Studio taught by Nancy March, and has painted one day a week ever since. Prior to living in Brookline,…
BROOKLINE, MA — On Tuesday, June 1st, Goddard House Assisted Living and Olmsted Memory Support in Brookline held their third annual LGBT Pride Flag Raising to kick off Pride Month. Residents and associates gathered to hear from community speakers and to witness the raising of the pride flag, which will remain raised throughout the month…
Funds to be used for Intergenerational Art Program for Underserved Older Adults Living with Dementia in Greater Boston NEW YORK —The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) has awarded grant funding to Goddard House, in Brookline, MA to bring Opening Minds Through Art (OMA), an award-winning, evidence-based, intergenerational art making-program for older adults living with dementia, to…
Goddard House, an assisted living facility in Brookline, held its first COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Saturday, January 16, where 121 residents and staff were vaccinated, according to Candace Cramer, Goddard House president and CEO. Two more clinics are scheduled for February through the CVS Health/Omnicare program. “With this vaccine, seniors and their families can rest…
Arlene Williamson is counting the days until she can see her family, including the two grandchildren she hasn’t seen since March. But the 85-year-old resident of Goddard House in Brookline sat smiling on a recent day, snuggling with a brown and white puppy — not the live kind, but a cuddly toy. “Sometimes, you know,…
BROOKLINE, MA – Goddard House Assisted Living in Brookline has announced the recipients of their 2020 Phyllis Vineyard Awards for Exemplary Service. Adeline Michel, a Resident Care Associate, and Eugene Mbukanma, Dining Room Manager, were selected from a pool of more than 30 eligible associates for the honor. Phyllis Vineyard served as the Vice President…