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Pleasant Hill’s Uplands Village is celebrating the completion of its garden renovation project.
Marketing Director Keith Mills said the open air garden features all-new furniture, garden boxes for planting, and a new surface for the garden itself. Mills said they chose to work on the garden because it is an important place for the residents in their memory care buildings.
“They can go out there, they can be outside, get fresh air,” Mills said. “Which all of these things help with the battle with dementia, Alzheimer’s, memory loss. Just being able to relax with as little stress as possible.”
The continuing care retirement community’s garden built through a grant from the Pat Summitt Foundation. Mills said the new garden will provide a safe, stimulating environment designed to be comfortable not only for residents but their friends and family as well.
Mills said they will be having an open house-style event for residents and their families to enjoy the new garden on October 25 from 11:00am to 1:00pm.
“We actually have a member of the Pat Summit Foundation that is going to be present to help us do the grand re-opening,” Mills said. “We will have a cookout, we will have tours.”
Mills said they felt it was important to celebrate the completion of the project because memory care is such a vital aspect of what Uplands Village does.
“We want everyone to know that that is one of our mainstays that we’ve really helped people out with,” Mills said. “Therefore getting this garden redone, it just seemed like it would be one of the best things to do and to have an event surrounding that.”
Mills said the project was paid for by the Pat Summit Foundation through the East Tennessee Foundation.
“This grant is part of $200,000 that was awarded to nonprofit organizations in Tennessee that provide support or care to patients or caregivers that are battling Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia,” Mills said.
