Eddy Retirement Living - Northeast Health

You’ve got a friend:
deep, loving relationships thrive
at Eddy Retirement Living
“Even rarer than love itself,” said a
French poet, “is friendship.” And if
you accept the findings in a number
of recent surveys, he’s right.
Genuine friendship, many Americans
complain, is getting harder
than ever to find. Despite all the
communications wonders of our
time – despite all the cell-phoning,
text-messaging, e-mailing and
seemingly constant chatter of our
digitally connected lives – more
and more people say they have
fewer and fewer trusted confidants.
Except here.
“
I’ve been around
a long time,” said Richard
Staffield, “and I’ve never
had more good friends
than right now, right here
at The Glen. ”
Deep, abiding, nourishing friendships
– the kind that poets write
about – are to be found in abundance
at our Eddy Retirement
Living communities. Ask anyone.
“Honestly … if I started to make
a list of all my friends here at
Beechwood,” said Martha (Marty)
Moore, “I’d never be able to finish it.”
“Maybe the dearest one of all is my
friend Alice Sunukjian, who lives
across the hall. Every morning she
lets me steal her newspaper and
read it,” Marty laughed.
“I never expected to have so many
close friends,” said Louise Marshall
of Beverwyck. “All the people here
are wonderful. If anyone ever has a
problem, everybody rallies around.
No one is alone.”
What’s the secret?
Why, in a world that many say is
getting lonelier each day, do we
find such an oasis of friendship,
camaraderie … even the hint of
new romance … in our Eddy
communities?
While our residents are gaining
friends, an important new study,
“Social Isolation in America,”
reports that average Americans
seem to be losing them. Over the
last 20 years, a typical person’s
number of “core confidants” has
fallen to only two.
And little more than half of all
respondents said a “non-kin”
person was part of their “inner
circle.” It’s a discouraging trend –
and the complete opposite of what
we experience here at The Eddy.
So … again … how can we explain it?
Maybe the secret is that our residents
don’t even bother to try. They
are simply themselves: comfortable
with their lives, their lifestyles and
their life decisions (including the
choice for Eddy Retirement Living).
“
Some say it’s the
worry-free environment
of our Eddy communities ...
or the fun-loving people ...
even the warm Eddy
staff (who clearly love
their jobs). ”
“Friendship is the norm here, not the
exception,” said another resident.
“I don’t know how they brought so
many fine people into one location,
but everyone here is first class,”
said Ed Delaporte of The Glen at
Hiland Meadows.
“Three years ago … on the day I
moved in … it wasn’t half an hour
before Al Quinn, from one of the
cottages, walked over and said ‘hey,
welcome to The Glen,” said Ed.
“Then, half an hour later, here
comes Steve Lewis from down the
street … saying ‘welcome to The
Glen.’ A few minutes later, I met
Harvey Dearstyne from next door.
It was like that all day. I met
Charlie Baker … so many others.”
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