Retirement Community

More than 25 years ago, future residents of Kendal at Oberlin planted the seeds for how the retirement community would operate. The community would be based on Quaker values and…

For many of us, buying a starter house years ago meant taking a crash course in homebuying  101. Mortgage points? PMI? Title insurance? Closing costs? We had a lot to…

Megan Caracciolo was looking for a meaningful internship that would further her college studies in gerontology. Retired geriatric physician Lal Arora was looking for a meaningful opportunity to use his…

Kendal residents Robert Taylor and Ted Nowick have been partners since 1975.   “As you can see, the LGBT community here at Kendal at Oberlin has grown significantly since 2003,…

Kendal at Oberlin residents are a creative bunch, and the biennial “Kendal Creates” celebrates their collective creativity. They are photographers, painters and potters, woodworkers and fiber artists, and more.

Sheila Eckstein has sketched and painted her way through Oberlin and the Southwest states. Two very different landscapes for sure, but using watercolors and mixed media sketches she finds colors…

About a dozen Kendal at Oberlin residents have come together to celebrate and educate the Kendal community about the contributions and concerns of older LGBT men and women.  The interest…

Kendal at Oberlin: 25 Years Strong That was the headline in a spring Oberlin College Artist Recital Series program, just one of the dozens of ways Kendal and the larger…

We are expected to live longer. Good news, yes, but aging comes with many challenges and fears, chief among them is an increased risk of developing dementia. With that in…