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Minnetonka Assisted Living Delivers Care Packages to Veterans

The care packages include nightlights, first aid kits, medication management containers, water bottles, healthy snacks and other items that make a senior's daily life and home more secure.

While sending care packages to troops overseas is a time-honored tradition, Minnetonka Assisted Living will be delivering them to local senior veterans or their surviving spouses during Memorial Day week.

This program is part of a national effort by Emeritus Senior Living to deliver more than 2,000 care packages and provide a helping hand with safety measures for seniors. Called “Heroes Emeritus” in honor of the veterans’ service, the program is underway now and runs through May 27.

The care packages include nightlights, first aid kits, medication management containers, water bottles, healthy snacks and other items that make a senior’s daily life and home more secure.

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In addition to delivering the packages, the Emeritus team will perform a home safety check to ensure the living environment is free of any potential hazards. 

“Our veterans and the spouses who gave their support on the home front have done so much to keep our nation safe,” said Jonathan Fenton, executive director of Minnetonka Assisted Living. “We’d like to do what we can to help keep these heroes stay safe in their senior years.”

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Members of the public who would like to recommend a local senior veteran or veteran spouse for the program are asked to call Minnetonka Assisted Living at (952) 988-0011 or via email at Minnetonka-crd@emeritus.com.


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