You know, the funny thing IS that everyone’s home is DIFFERENT!That’s because each of us make a million different choices – big and small – to make it fit our own lifestyle, in... Read More »

The cold and dark of winter is such an opportunity to find the warmth and light within. All of you reflect such love and compassion, such true community, which comes from the years you have lived and ... Read More »

When talking about our project and the construction, someone exclaimed to me, “You all have to live like this for the next YEAR?!?!” And I want to be sure that everyone here understands th... Read More »

I am sitting in the Dallas, TX airport, waiting for the last leg of my flight home, thinking over the past 5 days at the national conference of not-for-profit senior living providers - LeadingAge, in ... Read More »

Oh, the sounds and sights of fall….especially the giant PGE truck installing a large utility pole in the employee parking lot - apparently our temporary electric drop did not support us turning... Read More »

Rose Villa is excited to be participating in LeadingAge’s Word Up Challenge pilot project. Language is important in our field. Words influence behavior and therefore language really does matter.... Read More »

This represents a long road. It’s longer than the ACTUAL design process because it really starts back in 1957, with the vision of a handful of men who started this community. Men like John Peery... Read More »

When Rose Villa set about planning for the redevelopment of a large section of campus, a solid salvage plan for building materials was secured and put into motion. With 75 apartments slated for remova... Read More »

“Sustainability” is a word that appears frequently these days in the popular press, and it can mean quite different things depending on the context in which it is being used. In his book,&... Read More »

In the midst of the pressure and deadlines we are all up against in this effort to line up financing and construction for the start of our redevelopment project, I have gone to our Oregon LeadingAge a... Read More »

You know how it can sometimes sneak up on you that you have just been working, head down, plugging away at the pyramids, gotta do this, gotta do that, everything part of your To Do List, everything pl... Read More »

There are many different ways to look at love. As we approached Valentine’s Day in the Health Center this year I challenged the residents to try to describe what love is in a concrete way. We di... Read More »