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Aberdeen Height’s annual Art is Ageless® exhibit features the work of local senior artists. This year, we also are marking the 40th anniversary of the Art is Ageless® program.To submit artwork by the April 20 deadline, artists may contact Susan Press at spress@pmma.org to make arrangements, as visitors currently are restricted by COVID-19 precautions. At this time, we plan to offer the Art is Ageless exhibit virtually on our Aberdeen Heights Facebook page and announce our winners d...

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued revised guidelines March 9 for infection control and prevention of the novel Coronavirus 2019. These guidelines call on providers to limit – and in some cases restrict – in-person visitor access to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in senior health care communities.The guidelines call for communities to screen and limit visitor access to senior health care communities. The restrictions for communities in areas where there are active COVID-19 case...

Aberdeen Heights has issued a call for entries for the Art is Ageless® juried exhibit to be held April 27 – 30, 2020. Entries of artistic works will be accepted from any area artist who is 65 years of age or older to exhibit and/or compete for an opportunity to be featured in the 40th anniversary Art is Ageless calendar in 2021.Artists may choose to enter the exhibit only. For the competition, works are to have been completed in the past five years (since January 2015).

The sounds of Christmas filled The Glen during a December performance by the Aberdeen Heights Choir. The lineup included a number of classic choral pieces, including “’Twas the Night before Christmas,” “Candlelight Carol” and an arrangement of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”Director Elizabeth Beattie scaled down the 36-member choir to 30 voices in order to accommodate the performance space. Throughout the year, choir members attend regular hour-long ...

Aberdeen Heights received a certificate of recognition from PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America) for reaching goals in fiscal year 2019, covering the months of July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019, during a banquet November 13 in Wichita, Kan.The recognition came through PMMA’s Emerald Awards Program, designed to encourage its 16 campuses and two hospices to achieve high levels of resident and employee satisfaction, meet financial goals, build philanthropic support for the organization...