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Painting is Beneficial to Senior Adults
Those who enjoy painting or participating in any creative endeavor know how therapeutic it can be. Creativity helps improve our physical, mental and psychological well-being. This is especially true for senior adults. Did you know painting has the following benefits for seniors? (And, it doesn’t matter one’s skill level.)
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Oaks Staff Takes Away the Burden of Home, Lawn Maintenance and Upkeep
Imagine a life where you don’t have to do anything but enjoy your best years. Your retirement should not be full of worries about home maintenance and yard upkeep, but it should be full of hours in your day to do what you have always wanted to do: Travel more, enjoy the company of family and friends, pursue creative passions, develop a new hobby.
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Natural Wonder: Time Spent Outside is Key to a More Fulfilled Life
Being outdoors is critical for people of all ages, but even more so for senior adults because it has the potential to improve their health and well-being. The Oaks of Louisiana, through design, programs offered, and lifestyle, promotes overall wellness, keeping residents as independent as possible for as long as possible, helping them age well.
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How Does Her Garden Grow?
Garden Apartments resident Martha Thompson has a green thumb. Fellow residents have reaped the benefits of her gardening skills for the past few years and will do so once again this year if looks of a thriving Oaks community garden are any indication.
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Immersing Yourself in Nature has Many Health Benefits
Spending time outdoors restores the body and soul. Research confirms that being outside not only lifts your spirits and makes you feel happier, it improves your physical and mental well-being.
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Resident Becomes a Painter During Pandemic
When Bobbie Harlan, 91, looks back on her time in a pandemic and reflects on whether or not she made the most of isolation, she need look no further than the walls of her Garden Apartments at The Oaks residence.
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A Cheerful Heart Brings a Smile
Daisy Rudd Heitner is 96 years young. With a peaches and cream complexion, a twinkle in her eyes and a smile that rarely leaves her face, she exhibits a joie de vivre that is refreshing for someone her age.
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Oaks Residents Begin to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Healthcare providers from Willis-Knighton Health System came to The Oaks of Louisiana on Thursday and were greeted with applause by residents anxious to receive a vaccination for the prevention of the COVID-19 virus.
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Health Center Residents Get Special Christmas Gift
Clara Wilkinson pushes Frances Kurz, 94, down the hall in her wheelchair from her room at Health Center at Live Oak. Kurz’s tiny frame strikes a regal pose, her eyes twinkling behind wire rim glasses as she passes the nurses’ station toward what residents and staff refer to as “the bridge.”
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Amen with the Rev. Andrew Comeaux
One of the difficult things about religion is that we are asked to believe in what we can’t see. In our culture we are taught that seeing is believing and if you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. However to live out our faith we have to believe in the Unseen.
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Home Free: Charlene Young finds new community at The Oaks
Ninety-three-year-old Charlene Young’s smile is as sweet as her disposition and she wears it well. The Oaks of Louisiana resident, who moved here nearly four years ago, is a delightful soul who has woven her life into the tapestry of life at Garden Apartments at The Oaks, one of the community’s independent living residences.
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Adventure at The Oaks: Fearless Jean Eppler Finds Excitement at New Home
Jean’s happiness as a resident of The Oaks’ Garden Apartments is evident. She wears it on her face for all to see. There is always a twinkle in her eyes, broad smile on her face and her demeanor is one that draws people close, to share in whatever funny story she is telling or mischief she is causing.
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Amen with the Rev. Andrew Comeaux
If you are like me, 2020 has been a whirlwind of unexpected events and changes. We started off the year with the pandemic, which is still churning on, then racial tension, then hurricanes and now the election. Each one of those causing life disturbing changes to people we know and even ourselves.
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Kindred Spirits: Residents Reap Many Benefits from Social Interaction
Socialization and friendship are key to happier, heathier senior adults. People who continue to maintain close friendships and find other ways to interact socially live longer than those who become isolated.
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Helping Hands: Oaks Offers Residents Maintenance-Free Living
In October 2017, Mary Ann Webb was standing in water … inside her house! Two water heaters in the attic had burst and flooded her Appletree home. “You can imagine how long it took me to find people to clean it up and get everything back in order,” she says. “That was the last straw.”
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Baking, Sewing & Friendships: Edris Maddry's life is blessed
The aroma of fresh baked Hawaiian banana nut bread hangs in the air in the apartment where Edris Maddry lives at Tower at The Oaks. The crusty golden loaf of mashed bananas, sugar, flour, pecans and pineapple sits to cool on the kitchen counter as Maddry returns her attention to her latest handwork project – a cross-stitch quilt for a great grandbaby yet to be born.
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Don't Wait to Move to Enjoy Full Benefits of The Oaks
When retired Shreveport businessman Kurvis Burns and wife Betty were looking for a senior living community to call home, they were drawn to the breathtaking beauty of The Oaks of Louisiana. “It looked like a park,” Burns says. “I knew it was the place.”
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Celebrating Life Together
One by one the group of four takes their place around the table for an hour of trivia fun. Resident Mary Grubb and her team are ready for another spirited competition with fellow Tower at The Oaks residents.
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A Day at the Spa
The Oaks' Spa & Wellness Center salon services keep residents relaxed and healthy
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A Wise Choice: Consider These Factors When Deciding on Senior Living Community
Choosing a retirement or senior living community can be one of the biggest decisions made in a lifetime. Therefore, the decision should be well planned and well thought out.
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Oaks of Louisiana Residents Refurbish Masks
Not all heroes wear masks. Some make them … or refurbish them.
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Keeping Young: For One Resident, Activities at The Oaks Keeps Her Busy, Young
Lucille Rowzee Williams is a diminutive figure but larger than life to those who know her, more a steel magnolia than a shrinking violet.
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Volunteering Together: Oaks Residents Give Their Time to Benefit Community, World
Nina Russell chooses her words carefully as she writes sentiments on the inside of cards to be sent to U.S. servicemen and women stationed overseas.
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Oaks Residents Trek South for Avery Island Adventure and More
On a recent spring Tuesday morning, a group of Independent Living residents from The Oaks of Louisiana piled into cars for an overnight adventure to New Iberia, La., and tours of Shadows on the Teche and Avery Island.
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Croquet is a favorite outdoor recreational sport among residents
A competitive spirit doesn’t necessarily diminish with age!
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Health Center at Live Oak Receives 5-Star Rating From Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services

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To the Good People of The Oaks
As one year changes to another, I always feel like this is a grace-filled time.
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Oaks Residents Make Cards for Senior Adults Impacted by Hurricane Harvey

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To the Good People of The Oaks
We are coming up on the time in Louisiana that can rightly be described as the lazy days of summer.
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Candy and Kornbread with a K
A trip to Jefferson, Texas, gave residents from The Oaks of Louisiana plenty to talk about – Kitt’s cornbread sandwich for starters! – and enjoy.
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Aging Healthfully
Staying active, connected and engaged helps Oaks residents best handle life’s changes
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To the Good People of The Oaks
The period in U.S. history that I most like to read about is the 1930s and ’40s.
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Have a Ball
Croquet is a favorite outdoor recreational sport among residents
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How to Choose an Active Adult Community
Six days into their new life as residents of Tower at The Oaks, Mary Nell and Pete Anders already love their new home and are anxious to experience life to the fullest at The Oaks of Louisiana.
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An Uh Oh Moment in the Air By Kurt Strauss
This was written as part of a weekly creative writing class taught at The Oaks of Louisiana by Harriet Daggett
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Hydration cart a delightful Health Center addition
Music fills East and West wing hallways of Health Center at Live Oak each weekday afternoon and you’d think the Popsicle man was winding his way through the neighborhood, enticing children to run to get change for a refreshing treat.
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To the Good People of The Oaks
The scriptures often remind us not to judge others. There are some very good reasons for this.
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Aging Well in Every Dimension
At 93, Kurt Strauss is a poster child for aging well and doing so by engaging in what the International Council on Active Aging calls the “7 Dimensions of Wellness.”
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One-Stop Shopping: MarketPlace is a boutique and convenience store all in one
If residents at The Oaks of Louisiana run out of milk, need to satisfy a sweet tooth between meals or pick up a birthday gift for a friend or a grandchild, they don’t have to go far.
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Tour of Trees draws crowds both days
The every-other-year Tour of Trees at The Oaks of Louisiana drew nearly 300 visitors to the healthy lifestyle community during its two-day run Dec.12-13.
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