Aging Well…the Answer is PlanningMaking the Right Retirement Choices has never been easier. Please join us for a series of informative, informal sessions led by the experienced management team at Essex Meadows.Workshop 1 Your Future/Your Options 
As you explore your next steps, there are so many possibilities to consider, perhaps none more important than where you live and how you address your health needs. Whether your desire is to remain in your current home, downsize, or explore one of the many retirement options available in Connecticut, our retirement workshop can provide you with the planning strategies and tools you need. In our workshop, we'll talk about staying in your own home with modifications, assisted living, 55+ communities, continuing care, and more. These workshops are designed for small groups so that all of your specific concerns and questions can be addressed.
Join us for a workshop and brunch at 9:30 a.m. on one of the following dates:
Space is limited to 12 participants per session. Please contact Susan Carpenter (860.767.7201 or carpenters@essexmeadows.com) to reserve your place. Workshop 2Long Term Care Insurance: What You Need to Know There seems to be a lot of confusion when it comes to long-term care insurance. Understanding your existing policy and how it might dovetail with your other retirement strategies is paramount. This workshop has been designed to review the generic framework of long term care insurance. We will discuss benefits, elimination periods, and other specifics to help you become more comfortable with policy language and procedure. Together we will develop questions to ask your insurance agent, and a checklist to ensure that you and your health care designee are prepared to handle the unexpected. Join us for a Long Term Care Workshop at 9:30 a.m. on one of the following dates:
Space is limited to 12 participants per session. Please contact Susan Carpenter (860.767.7201 or carpenters@essexmeadows.com) to reserve your place. SeminarBranching Out in New Directions 
We have more lifestyle options now than ever. How do I find the environment that's best suited for me? Join us for a seminar focusing on demographics, the history of the retirement industry, new trends in senior living, green initiatives including LEED certification, and CARES initiatives in skilled nursing. How has the culture changed? Why are people choosing lifecare? These seminars include brunch and will be held at 9:30 a.m. on April 8, 2010 or October 21, 2010. Please contact Susan Carpenter (860.767.7201 or carpenters@essexmeadows.com) to reserve your place. Our Presenters: Susan Carpenter, Marketing Director at Essex Meadows, will share her two decades of research and experience in the retirement industry. Susan completed her undergraduate work at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and her graduate work in gerontology and thanatology at the College of New Rochelle. Drawing on a series of graduate courses in gerontology that she taught at the College of New Rochelle, Susan will discuss aging demographics and changes in the retirement industry. Most important, she can provide you with the tools and planning strategies you need as you embark on this next phase of your life. Jennifer Rannestad, Executive Director of Essex Meadows, is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a bachelor of economics degree, and has a master of business administration degree from the University of Connecticut. She is a licensed nursing home administrator in the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Jennifer has been in long-term care administration since 1985, and has experience in the home health care field as well. Jennifer will address new initiatives in the life care field including LEED certification and green initiatives. As a new generation of retirees look to make their homes at retirement communities, what sort of lifestyle options are they requesting? Since 1971, Jennifer and her colleagues at Life Care Services have been recognized leaders in the development and management of life-care retirement communities and currently manage 80 communities nationwide. Kathleen Dess, Essex Meadows' Health Center Administrator, is a licensed Nursing Home Administrator with 20 years of experience in the field of long term care. A graduate of the University of Connecticut Long-Term Health Care Management program, Kathleen was recognized as the American College of Health Care Administrator, CT Chapter “Administrator of the Year” in 1998. Committed to improving the standard in long term care, Kathleen served on a State of Connecticut task force to evaluate and propose new regulations for the State Public Health Code. A resident of Madison, Kathleen is committed to the community by serving on the Building Committee for a new Senior Center and Ambulance Garage. She has previously served as a Madison Senior Services Commissioner. Kathleen is a past president of the Madison Rotary Club, and is a Paul Harris Fellow. Kathleen's focus will be changes in the health care field, both in terms of long and short-term needs and the benefits to having your health needs met right in the community where you live. Thank you so much for the superb seminars I attended at Essex Meadows last year. The retirement issues covered were comprehensive, information timely, and presentation lively and stimulating. As a retired physician I felt that my questions were answered and that I came away with a great deal of useful information to think about.
Dr. Martha Stephens
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