Angelus Retirement
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Waupaca
Angelus Retirement Community
Offers Assisted Living
By Angie Landsverk, Post
Staff Writer
The
philosophy at Angelus Retirement Community is a simple one:
“God
committed the care and comfort of men and women and all things under heaven to
his angels.”
Named
after the mother of Vince Cassiani, the CEO of Angelus Retirement Corp., those
who live in one of the Angelus retirement communities are encouraged to make it
their home.
Based
in
The
Waupaca retirement community opened Feb. 15.
“It
took just over a year form start to finish,” said Rae Johnson, the community
relations director at Angelus Retirement Community in Waupaca.
Marketing
studies showed that the Waupaca area needed assisted-living facilities and
could support a place like Angelus, she said.
At
Angelus, there are 36 independent living apartments, 52 assisted living
apartments and six villas.
“We
are licensed as a residential care apartment complex. Each of them are
apartments, not just one room. That is
what makes it different from a CBRF (community-based residential facility),”
Johnson said.
Located
on County Trunk QQ, the retirement community has Foxfire Golf Club as one of
its neighbors.
The
idea at Angelus is to keep those who live there as independent as possible and
to keep them stimulated – both socially and intellectually.
Presently,
there are seven people living in assisted living apartments and nine people
living in independent living apartments.
More
people will be moving into the community in June.
Shirley
Orr is the executive director in Waupaca and is also a registered nurse.
Orr
is on call 24 hours a day, and there is also an in-house emergency response
system. Because the retirement community
is not a nursing home, full nursing care is not provided
Once
thee retirement community is full, there will be more social activities
offered.
“Angelus
is big on activities,” Orr said.
For
example, each facility has a Happy Hour at
The
apartments come in various sizes.
There
are one and two bedroom apartments for those who live independently and
efficiency, and one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments for those who live with
assistance.
Various
services are offered at Angelus Retirement Community.
Among
those available to assisted living residents are three home-cooked meals daily,
assistance with daily living, medication monitoring, weight and blood pressure
screenings, personal laundry done weekly, a kitchenette with a sink, microwave
and refrigerator, scheduled transportation to social events and shopping, assistance
with health-care-related appointment scheduling, weekly housekeeping and
activities.
Waupaca
Angelus Senior Apartments
Now Open
Residents
began moving into the Angelus Senior Apartments of Waupaca on Monday.
Located
on the property of the old St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church, at
The
building also has a community room with a fireplace and a coffee bar.
Stacy
and John Adams are the on-site resident managers. Stacy works part-time as the Waupaca
Independent and Assisted Living community’s nurse. She was previously employed as the director
of nursing at
For more information, contact Stacy or John Adams at (715)256-9469.