Dougherty Ferry Assisted Living & Memory Care

The day we’ve been working towards is FINALLY here; Residents are making our pasta & sauce 🍝 with homegrown basil 🌿 Our Assisted Living and Memory Care residents have been dreaming 💭 of this moment since the beginning of the summer when we started “traveling to” new countries ...✈️ and getting our community garden going 👩🏼‍🌾

Every few weeks, we find a new country or city to explore - learning everything we can about their culture, food 🍲, music 🎵 , art 🖼️, etc. Residents loved virtually exploring Rome, and they knew they wanted to try to replicate a handmade fettuccini alfredo 👩🏻‍🍳.

Residents did it all 📝! Prepped & sanitized the table 🧽, got gloves and aprons set 🧤🥼, calculated and measured our ingredients 🥣, and got to mixing and kneading! What a workout 💪🏼 They cut dough balls into quarters, let them do their resting, rolled them out, & sliced our noodle shape 🔪 With guidance from our restaurant Chef, Aaron, and Harvey, one of our newest residents who manned the rolling pin, we made some of the best sauce you’d ever taste 👨🏼‍🍳

Our Assisted Living & Memory Care residents are over the moon 🌙 to be able to add dog toys 🐶 to their list of creations for pet donations 🐾!

Our #FriendsoftheCommunity group can’t be stopped when it comes to their philanthropic pursuits💜 When it came to brainstorming ...ideas for the look of the dog toys; our residents knew they wanted to give some of our old supplies a new purpose 👚🎾! After doing some research to learn different knots and techniques, the residents cut, overhand knotted, and braided the shirts and bandanas into ropes perfect for puppy play time🐕 We are so happy to be able to give these along with our other donations to the pets at our local humane society in November 🥰

Given our FANTASTIC clothing #FUNDRIVE collection from residents, family, & staff for a donation to our Alzheimer's Association goal of the year, we are happy to announce that we will be starting our #DoggieDonations drive in support of Mac's Mission🦴 We will be collecting new or gently used towels, sheets, and linens in hopes of assisting in the needs of this amazing nonprofit rescue/foster organization.

More details on the way, if you are interested in being apart of this opportunity 🥰!

Shana Tova✨

Our Petals & Pals 🌱 club had the BEST time crafting these beautiful new vases for one of their favorite activities - floral arranging 💐 As Summer 🌞 winds down, we feel bittersweet about leaving our community garden & fresh flowers behind, but are looking forward to keeping our ...passion for gardening around with indoor plants & fabulous artificial arrangements🪴


Our Assisted Living and Memory Care residents have really been into repurposing lately, so when they found these clear vases 🫙 they immediately had a vision to brighten them up with some POPS of color 🎨 to show off their exquisite seasonal flowers 🌷As if these vases weren’t cool enough, they totally OUTDID themselves by creating a very modern wooden vase 🪵 Inspired by the popular basket style floral arrangements, our residents used a balloon 🎈 as a sphere-shaped cast for molding their wooden rings together to get that unique basket shape! Our residents are SO pleased with how these projects turned out🍁