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Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care Creates Private Resident Photo Page
Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care has created a password protected, online resident photo gallery to make sure friends and family can see how their family members are doing during the COVID-19 situation.
Senior Living Leaders Urge Government for COVID-19 Tests and Protective Equipment
In a letter sent March 16, the heads of four suburban nonprofit assisted living facilities pleaded with Gov. J.B. Pritzker for more COVID-19 testing kits and personal protective equipment for workers. Gus Noble, president of Caledonia Senior Living in North Riverside,...
Caledonia Expands Art Programming to Include “Midnight Painters” Group
Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care, the primary charity of the Chicago Scots, the oldest non-profit in Illinois, is expanding their ever growing arts programming to include furniture restoration, painting and music therapy. Included in this expansion is a...
Scottish treasure stops by The Scottish Home
Residents at Caledonia Senior Living and Memory Care in North Riverside got a brush with Scottish history last week when it became a special stop during a three-week tour of one of Scotland's national treasures – the so-called Robert Burns violin. The 267-year-old...
Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care featured on WGN
Reporter Ana Belaval from WGN came to Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care to learn more about the interesting programs we have including therapy dogs, Cycling Without Age.
A Fresh Look for the Scottish Home – Reimagining Tradition
At Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care, we take great pride in the traditions of care, compassion and warmth that led the Illinois Saint Andrew Society – today known as Chicago Scots – to build the Scottish Home in North Riverside more than 100 years ago. Since...
Why Choose Sheltered Care?
If you’ve just begun researching aging services options in Illinois, you may have come across a few key terms and phrases that you are unfamiliar with. At Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care, we know that choosing the right community can be stressful and...
Caledonia Rolls Out Bike Rides for Seniors
Caledonia Senior Living and Memory Care in North Riverside on May 9 officially became the first Illinois chapter of Cycling Without Age, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based organization that aims to get senior citizens back on bicycles by offering them free rides on...
Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care to launch first chapter in Illinois of Cycling Without Age!
Do you remember your very first bicycle? The exhilarating feeling of gliding effortlessly toward some new excitement, the feeling of the wind in your hair and the rush of air past your face? The feeling of freedom that you experienced on that bicycle? At Caledonia...
Caledonia Senior Living residents paired with local students for WTTW Kids Grandparents Connection
At Caledonia Senior Living & Memory, we are deeply committed to providing opportunities for residents to build intergenerational relationships and share experiences with the greater community in and around North Riverside. As part of this commitment, on Monday we...
Introducing the New Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care Website
Today we are thrilled to reveal the new Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care website! This is a project that has been many months in the making, and we hope that the new website will give you a true sense of our community, where care is at the core of our...
Celebrating 100 Years of Life
The Mayor of North Riverside, Hubert Hermanek Jr., handed out keys to the village on March 21, 2019 to four residents at Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care who all are 100 years old or older. The residents' milestones were celebrated with bouquets of flowers...