Trudy Strauss is celebrating her 105th birthday in a way she didn’t expect. Her family had planned a big party, but due to the pandemic, it had to be canceled. Strauss lives at Brookdale Senior Living in Denver and is isolating to protect herself.

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many senior living providers to retool their dining programs in short order.

In an effort to give residents and their relatives a way to form new memories, the staff at Brookdale Arlington turned the two glass doors between a dining room and an outdoor courtyard into a meeting space.

On Thursday at Brookdale Meadow Springs Senior Living in Richland, residents looked through their window and some even came outside (while practicing #SocialDistancing) as The Firesides played music in the parking lot. Their performance — a sign that compassion is contagious.

Residents and staff members at Brookdale Riverwalk in Bakersfield, Calif., joined forces with Cal State Bakersfield's spirit squad recently to celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day. Click to read the story in The Bakersfield Californian newspaper.

Five couples at Brookdale West Bay in Warwick celebrated a combined 242 years of marriage -- along with more than 30 grandchildren and at least a half dozen great-grandchildren -- this Valentine's Day.

Together for 61 years, Marge and Terry Huntsman met in their early 20s on a blind date in 1958 and as Marge says, "The rest is history." The couple is from Idaho Falls, but now lives in the Brookdale Assisted Living Center in Chubbuck.

This year's Valentine's Day was extra special for a 106-year-old woman in the Brookdale Pleasant Hills Nursing Home, when one of the residents surprised her with a singing quartet.

Brookdale residents dance, pose for photos and crown and King and Queen at a Valentine's Day celebration.

Leaders at Brookdale Nursing Home hosted their second COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the facility Tuesday, vaccinating around 200 staff and residents.

Some good old-fashioned snail mail has residents at Brookdale Tallgrass grinning from ear to ear, and whipping out their pen and paper. These letters coming in from strangers, lifting spirits and igniting the "Pen Pal Program" at Brookdale Tallgrass Assisted Living.

Julie Cox is a 78-year-old Brookdale Novi resident who made a viral rap about COVID-19 and she recently received a dose of the vaccine. Cox, a former music teacher, decided she wanted to remind people to wash their hands and practice social distancing the best way she knows how -- through song.

Brookdale Salina Fairdale hosted a vaccine party for its residents Thursday, complete with games, photos and, of course, the first of two rounds of COVID-19 vaccines.

More than 60 residents of Brookdale Napa on Villa Lane, together with some 50 employees, awaited their turns for the first of two injections of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and introduced in December. They thus became some of the first among more than 137,000 Napa County residents to receive protection against the virus.

Brookdale San Marcos North, a senior-living facility, recently had residents, associates and essential caregivers receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Pharmacists from CVS administered the vaccine.