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More than 200 aging services professionals, business partners and supporters celebrated a who’s-who of industry veterans in grand style during the inaugural McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards ceremony in February.

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The lawsuit was filed by condominium companies and residents who said their sunlight, ocean view and privacy would be impacted by the new structure in Virginia Beach

The head of Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay said the campus has reached herd immunity. Author: Dana Smith Updated: 6:28 PM EST February 28, 2021 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The head of a senior living community in Virginia Beach said its reached "herd immunity" among residents. President and CEO of Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay, Ben Unkle said everyone who lives there, except one person, received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.  “We’re a ...

Virginia Beach senior community steadily returns to life as normal, with some restrictions and last updated 2021-02-17 17:22:17-05 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- It was an exclusive session for the senior citizens at Westminster-Canterbury. They had a virtual cooking lesson from celebrity chef, Jet Tila. The community’s interactive sessions, normally held in person before, have gone virtually because of the pandemic. "From the very beginning of the pandemic, we recognized that we needed to be inno...

  TORONTO -- When 76-year-old Gay Dixon hugged her son for the first time in more than nine months, she became overwhelmed with emotion. The two haven’t embraced since the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, but with the help of a hugging wall made out of a plastic shower liner, Dixon and her son were able to safely hug each other without actually touching. The Senior Living Community of Westminster-Canterbury, where Dixon resides in the U.S. state of Virginia, came up with the...

Virginia retirement community creates “hugging walls” as COVID precaution Many of America’s elderly have been cut off from loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic, so a retirement community in Virginia created a “hugging wall” where residents can safely embrace others. “It came about because as holidays were approaching, we thought, ‘Gosh, we have to figure out a safe way for people to hug each other,’” Westminster-Canterbury retirement home CEO Ben Unkle said. “We just c...