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ICAA CEO to speak at healing gardens seminar
VANCOUVER, December 15, 2008 - Healing Gardens: The Power and Practice of Nature in Senior Communities will be held on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at Medford Leas Continuing Care Retirement Community in Medford, New Jersey. Engaging older adults in horticultural activities, therapeutic gardens, and sensitively designed landscapes fosters a sense of well-being, promotes healing, and adds value for retirement community residents. This seminar is geared to landscape architects, designers, master planning firms, assisted living facility managers, continuing care retirement community administrators, horticultural therapists and others in related fields. It is co-sponsored by the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania and Medford Leas, a Quaker-directed, not-for-profit community for older adults.
Featured speakers include:
- Colin Milner, CEO, International Council on Active Aging, will speak on creating an age-friendly wellness environment.
- Nancy Spears, Executive Director of Pennswood Village Continuing Care Retirement Community, will discuss environmental stewardship and designing sustainable senior communities.
- Peg Schofield, Horticultural Therapist at Cathedral Village, will focus on using horticultural therapy programs to promoting wellness.
- Birgit Rakel, MD,Myrna Brind Center for Integrated Medicine at Jefferson Hospital, will discuss incorporating the benefits of nature into therapeutic programs.
- Jack Carman, Landscape Architect and Presidentof Design for Generations, will focus on designing nature into senior residences.
The cost for the day-long seminar is $125 if received by April 15 with a student rate of $65. The fee includes continental breakfast, and lunch. Continuing education units are available for Pennsylvania and New Jersey landscape architects. For a complete brochure please contact 215-247-5777, ext. 125 or 156, e-mail jlm@pobox.upenn.edu, or go to www.medfordleas.org.
Medford Leas Continuing Care Retirement Community is situated on 168 acres of land designated as The Lewis W. Barton Arboretum and Nature Preserve. Located in Medford, New Jersey, just 18 miles east of Philadelphia, the Arboretum offers great diversity with its landscaped grounds, courtyard and patio garden designs, wildflower meadows, and natural woodlands and wetlands. Visitors are able to view plant communities and collections that are considered to be among the most extensive in all of Southern New Jersey.
The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania is located at 100 E. Northwestern Avenue in Chestnut Hill. The 92-acre horticulture display garden features a spectacular collection of mature trees in a Victorian landscape. The Morris Arboretum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the official Arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For more information, please call (215) 247-5777 or you may visit the Morris Arboretum online at www.morrisarboretum.org.
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