Bickford of Overland Park
Assisted Living & Memory Care
Nothing can replace home. At Bickford of Overland Park, we don’t ask you to give up your home, your treasures, your memories. Instead, we want you to bring the pieces of the home you love into ours and make it yours. Through personalized assisted living and memory care services, we invite you to share your stories with us, to see Bickford as an extension of your home.
Amy Hitch -
Thank you so much to our good friend Sargent "T" for bringing us our delicious treats for superbowl Sunday We Love You!
Amy Hitch -
Today, we made giant roses! They loved the prossess and especially the results, good job folks!
Amy Hitch -
Bickford resident art from our last class in January 2019.
"A January sunset in Kansas"
Amy Hitch -
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01-31-2019
Here is a look at all of the fun that we are having in February.
Amy Hitch -
When it is cold and icey outside we bring the outing to us. On Friday we had our first lunch theater of the year, we enjoyed pizza and the all time classic movie, "The Sound of Music."
Amy Hitch -
For Luau day, in our art class we painted "The Beach"
Amy Hitch -
more pictures from our luau Party
Amy Hitch -
Our Luau Party was so much fun, we hardly even knew that there was still snow on the ground outside with all of the warmth and fun we had inside.
Amy Hitch -
The Beautiful art work of our residents from Thursday, January 17th. "Waterfalls"
Amy Hitch -
Last week after we had that big snow, I helped to fullfill a life long dream/goal of one of our residents. Bill has spent his intire life in Hawaii (up until a year and a half ago when he came here to Bickford) in all his life he has allways wante to build a snowman well last week we did, he was so ... Read Full Post
Last week after we had that big snow, I helped to fullfill a life long dream/goal of one of our residents. Bill has spent his intire life in Hawaii (up until a year and a half ago when he came here to Bickford) in all his life he has allways wante to build a snowman well last week we did, he was so cold but so happy and proud....enriching happiness at it's best.
Amy Hitch -
I had a great time with for of the fellas when we went to Jack Stacks to eat. Lou and Al just loved their BBQ meal.
Amy Hitch -
I just love Peggy, my Irish Lass, in her Irish hat #TooCute
Amy Hitch -
more crazy hat day pictures
Amy Hitch -
These are just a few pictures from out "Crazy Hat Day"
Nicole Vermes -
01-02-2019
Happy New Year! I just wanted to thank all of our residents and residents' families for making 2018 an amazing year! I can't wait to see what we have in store for 2019!
Amy Hitch -
All these pictures are of Bill LOL, the video is hilarious, he loved it.
Amy Hitch -
more pictures of us "elfing ourself". I love the father and son one of Monty with his dad Lou.
Amy Hitch -
We had alot of fun with the "Elf Yourself" app, These always make me laugh so much. The residents have moves that they didn't even know they had.
Amy Hitch -
Our week has been wonderful! we started the week with another outing to see christmas lights, this time we drove around down town Kansas City and we got to see the Mayor's tree at crown center, it was beautisul.
Amy Hitch -
on e of our first group of kids to come and sing to our residentss during this Christmas season were the 4th and 5th graders from Trailwood elementary. They sounded so beautiful, what a treat!
Amy Hitch -
Our winter festival was a beautiful/ Ugly sweater party complete with a parade, desplaying our sweaters that we had made the day before! it was a blast.
Amy Hitch -
After our puppy and children friends visited us, they went and gave love to our friends in our Mary B's neighborhood.
Amy Hitch -
More super cute pictures from our puppy visit!
Amy Hitch -
On Monday afternoon we had a wonderful Christmas treat! 6 little puppies along with there children handlers came and visited us, and let me tell you...... it was an overload of cute!
Amy Hitch -
These are just a few pictures of our festive, wheel chairs, walkers and canes that we have been decorating this month.
Nicole Vermes -
We are getting the Christmas tree ready over in Mary B's for Santa! Do not forget donuts with Santa tomorrow at 10am! Ho-ho-hope to see you all there!
Nicole Vermes -
Do not forget this Saturday is Breakfast with Santa at 10am!!! Come take pictures with Santa and grab a Dunkin Donut! We are all waiting for you! (PS Amy & the crew wanted to show off there ugly sweaters & Christmas spirit for you!)
Nicole Vermes -
Happy Holidays everyone! I just wanted to let you know you may see a big change in decor around here... We are extremely festive for the holidays and we would love for you to come check us out! The more the merrier we always say!!!
Nicole Vermes -
11-08-2018
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! THE ART SHOW WILL BE CANCELLED TONIGHT DUE TO WEATHER! We are planning on rescheduling it for next Thursday, November 15th, at 6 PM. Sorry for the last minute change of plans. We hope you understand. Stay warm and be safe everyone!
Nicole Vermes -
11-01-2018
Our Annual Art Show is next week!!!!! We hope to see you all there at this very special event, Thursday, November 8, at 6 PM. We will be showing off our residents' priceless masterpieces and going over our HappYness Survey for the year!
Nicole Vermes -
10-29-2018
DO NOT FORGET THE BOO BASH TOMORROW! Mary B's will be 3-4pm and Assisted Living is 6-7pm! We can't wait to see your spooky-selves there!
Amy Hitch -
For pumpkin week we naturally had to bake some pumpkin pies mmmmmmmmm.
Amy Hitch -
Today we all enjoyed another wonderful performance by our friend, Rob McHenry, and his trusty sidekick "Snickers".
Amy Hitch -
Because this week is "pumpkin week" we painted a night time pumpkin patch (this was inspired by some pieces that my boys did for school).
Amy Hitch -
Our art class is just growing and growing!
Amy Hitch -
Halloween is right around the corner, so we wanted to get prepared by making our veru own, original, and fun Halloween t-shirts.
Nicole Vermes -
10-12-2018
Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know we have a new addition to our team, some of you may have seen her walking around Mary B's... Angel is our newest Bickford Family Memeber. She is the Nurse Coordinator for Mary B's! She is looking forward to meeting all of you!
Kandis Reynolds -
Today is Family History Day. We made a family tree with all of our loved ones' names! We also enjoyed lunch family style! We would love to have you become part of our Bickford Family too! Come check us out!
Nicole Vermes -
10-10-2018
BIG NEWS! The Alzheimer's Association Walk has been rescheduled! It will now be October 21st inside the new Hy-Vee Arena at 8 AM! Hope to see you all there!
Amy Hitch -
Here is another picture of our buddy with Pets-4-Life, Fletch
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Amy Hitch -
This morning we had a great visist with our friends from Pets-4-Life, I especially like Fletche's jersey
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Nicole Vermes -
Happy Fall Y'all! We hope everyone is enjoying our fresh new Fall decor... if you have not seen it yet, please come in & check it out!
Nicole Vermes -
10-05-2018
ATTENTION!!!! The ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION WALK has been CANCELED due to weather. We will keep you updated on date change... At this point they are looking into different celebration options. Thank you for your support and your donations will still go a long way in this fight!
Michelle Watson -
10-05-2018
The Alzheimer's Walk for Sunday has been cancelled due to weather. They plan to have an alternate event in the future. We will keep you posted.
Amy Hitch -
I bet you can't guess what kind of trees we painted for "apple week" :-). Our apple trees turned out awesome! I am so proud of all of our talented folks. I am especially proud of Anne, this was her first art class, she said that she "wasn't much of a painter"........ well her tree turned out ... Read Full Post
I bet you can't guess what kind of trees we painted for "apple week" :-). Our apple trees turned out awesome! I am so proud of all of our talented folks. I am especially proud of Anne, this was her first art class, she said that she "wasn't much of a painter"........ well her tree turned out beautiful!
Amy Hitch -
Our trip to the cider mill was wonderful, beautiful friends on a beautiful day.
Amy Hitch -
more pictures from our 1950's day
