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Pictures with Santa

Residents, employees, and families of Hillcrest Health and Rehabilitation Center met in the dining room to share their Christmas wish lists and cookies with Santa. The facility hopes you enjoyed all the pictures taken and Merry Christmas to everyone.

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Remembering Veterans for Christmas

Hillcrest Health and Rehabilitation Center are so blessed to have folks remember the resident veterans, not only at Christmas, but all year round. A special thank you to AM Vets #116 for dropping by the other day. They brought gifts and Christmas wishes for the very special veterans.

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Christmas gift donations

Hillcrest Health and Rehabilitation Center would like to say thank you to Kentucky Real Estate Professionals – Broker, Aundrea Damrell, for their donation of Christmas gifts for the residents. Everyone at the facility truly appreciates your thoughtfulness this Christmas season.

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Visit from the Fun & Learning Factory crew

Hillcrest Health and Rehabilitation Center welcomed back special guests Fun & Learning Factory for Kids and Sissy’s Kids. The children sang Christmas songs for the residents, listened intently as the leader read a Christmas story, and then they served the residents cookies and ice cream. It was the highlight of the week. It brought many…

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Gifts all over the facility

Santa is using one of the offices at Hillcrest Health and Rehabilitation Center to store all of the resident’s Christmas gifts. Family members, it’s not too late to drop off your present. Santa will be here to personally deliver every single gift soon.

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Employee Christmas Party

A special thank you to … Hillcrest Health and Rehabilitation Center’s Food and Nutrition Services staff, Gail and Penny, for picking out such beautiful gifts at My Favorite Things for the Employee Christmas Party. Also to the company for the gift cards and party. Merry Christmas to all Employees.

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Christmas picture day

The residents at Hillcrest Health and Rehabilitation Center had so much fun getting their picture taken with the Grinch for Christmas Picture Day. There were many pictures taken and the staff hope you enjoy them all. Merry Christmas from everyone at the facility.

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Why do seniors shuffle when they walk

As seniors get older, they tend to shuffle or drag their feet when the walk. Why do they do that? Well, they more than likely are not doing it on purpose or even know they are shuffling. Typically something is causing the shuffling when they walk. The first step to help them not do this…

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Ways to help Seniors get better sleep

Many things change with age, one of which are sleep patterns. These changes make it harder for seniors to not only fall asleep, but stay asleep. The lack of sleep could also affect the caregiver due to always needing to keep an eye on the senior. A few common reasons for sleep problems are: Discomfort…

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Special guest for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, so Hillcrest Health and Rehabilitation Center invited Johnny “Two Feathers” Cornett to come and share his heritage and artifacts with everyone. The residents truly enjoyed visiting and taking pictures with him.