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Pat Summers has been helping her husband Wayne during his recovery from multiple trips to the hospital over the past few years, and it’s been frustrating for her. “He would get therapy and be in worse condition,” she says. “Sometimes I’d wait for weeks to hear about the next step in recovery. And we can’t do anything but wait.”…

When the time came for Mary Jarema to move from her neighborhood of 55 years, Kathleen says, “She was 90 and living on her own. Though we would visit 3 or 4 times a week it was time for a move. After looking at a few places, she made the decision to make the move to Park Place by herself.…

Mary Jenkins has lived at Park Place of Elmhurst since 2018, and she has enjoyed an active and social lifestyle, both within and outside the retirement community. So when the pandemic forced stay-at-home orders in Illinois, and visiting restrictions within Park Place, Mary’s life changed radically.…

Frank Kray is a long-term resident of Park Place Health & Wellness Center of St. John. He’s the first to tell you a couple tough truths: He didn’t want to stop driving his car, and then he didn’t want to move on from his home. Life made these decisions for him though, and so he’s appreciative of the good things around him, and he’s every bit as willing to point out those.…