Legacy E Newsletter June 20, 2007
Resident Member Event at Fireside Pies!
Our next Resident Member event will be on Sunday, June 24th. If you are a future resident of The Legacy at Willow Bend, please meet at the Information and Design Center at 10:30 am for boarding the shuttles. The shuttles will depart at 10:45 am for the Construction Site. No private cars will be allowed.
From the Construction Site, the tour shuttles will then bring you to Fireside Pies, located at The Shops of Legacy on Legacy Drive and the Dallas North Toll Road, where you will enjoy Fireside Pies famous salad, pizza and delicious desserts!
We will depart Fireside Pies at approximately 1:30 pm to be returned to the Information and Design Center.
If you haven't already made your reservation for this great event, please contact Joyce Greenberg at (972) 387-3779.
Book Club Meeting: A Novel Success!
Attendees had a great time at our latest Book Club meeting and interest keeps generating new people each day!
The next meeting will be on Thursday, July 12th, and each person will bring with them a book of interest. Whether you are currently reading the book, or have read it in the past, you are encouraged to bring one of your favorites. Each member will briefly tell the group about the book and then, at a future meeting, collectively the group will decide which will be the first official book of the Book Club!
Our next meeting is certain to be exciting. So grab your favorite from the book shelf and come enjoy wine, cheese, great conversation, and great people!
For more information regarding the Book Club, please contact Lisa Harris at (214) 890-7912.
Construction Update
We are less than one year away from our 2008 opening! Construction is continuing at a brisk pace. By fall, all the floors on the main Independent Living building will be completed and crews will then begin on the interior work. More villas will be completed by summer's end, along with roofing and exterior work finished on the Memory Support building.
Construction's hot at The Legacy! Drive by our site on Spring Creek Parkway between Preston Road and Ohio Drive in Plano, Texas and see the action for yourself.
View the latest photos from the site.
A Drink A Day Can Keep Dementia Away!
Recently a study was conducted by scientists from the Department of Geriatrics at the University of Bari in Italy that may provide hope for those at risk of dementia. Since moderate alcohol consumption is linked to improved circulation, the researchers decided to test if drinking may also be associated with the rate of decline of mental health. Almost 1500 people participated in the four year long study.
It concluded that a drink or two per day may slow down the development of dementia. "The mechanism responsible... isn't known," said study coauthor Dr. Vincenzo Solfrizzi, a researcher of geriatrics at the University of Bari. "It is possible that the arrangement of blood vessels in the brain may play a role in why alcohol consumption appears to protect against dementia. This would support other observations that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol may protect the brain from stroke and vascular dementia."
Dementia is a condition in which one's cognitive abilities decline at a progressive rate. Dementia usually affects persons over the age of 60 and is first seen as forgetfulness. Mild dementia has developed when short-term memory is impaired, as is language function, especially word finding.
More than 6.8 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia. There is no known cure at this time, nor is there any clear way to predict who will develop dementia.
So let's TOAST to better health and finding a cure for this disease in the future.