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Downers Grove’s Oak Trace Creates Special Valentine’s Day Care Packages for Military Service Members

Oak Trace residents, family members, local junior high students, and team members worked together to create Valentine’s Day themed care packages to send to military service members as part of …

Oak Trace Donates Health Center Beds

Oak Trace senior living donated health center beds to a maternity hospital in Africa. See the video.

How to Support Alzheimer’s Family Caregivers

Medical professionals often refer to Alzheimer’s as a family diagnosis. This isn’t because the disease is contagious, but instead because the whole family suffers from the illness. Alzheimer’s gradually breaks …

Helping Hands Pause to Help PAWS

The loud sounds of saws and sanders could be heard outside the wood shop at Oak Trace earlier this year. Inside, resident Richard Haffner was constructing a doghouse that would …

New Initiative Brought Goats to Oak Trace

For five days in August, residents and guests noticed some unusual landscapers at the community. To help control invasive buckthorn shrub that had sprouted around the community, 40 goats provided a …

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