This month Michele Tarsitano-Amato celebrates her 31st anniversary working at Kendal, and that puts her in an elite group: founding staff member of Kendal, which opened in 1993. Michele has been working in the field of aging since her undergraduate years at Ohio University, and from day one

Kendal at Oberlin, a nonprofit life plan community in Oberlin, Ohio, has announced that Seth Vilensky will join the community as Chief Executive Officer on January 29, 2024. He was selected following a nationwide search, led by the organization’s Board of Directors. Seth has most recently served

Kendal Silver Anniversary Award for 2018 As a founding medical partner, Georgia Newman has brought a passion for excellence in geriatric care and medical innovation to Kendal at Oberlin. Georgia has served as an attending physician from the day Kendal opened their doors in 1993. In all of these 25

Before moving to Kendal, Sue and Joe Colucci lived in a rustic cottage in Michigan, and the décor was unsuited for fragile, elegant art work. But one day at an art show, the couple was drawn to a glass sculpture bowl, both fragile and elegant. “And affordable,” Sue says. Still, they resisted

For years Maggie Stark sat across a table at Kendal talking to prospective residents about the importance of planning their retirement while they were healthy and had options. “Fail to plan, plan to fail,” the former marketing director would say, encouraging them to paint a picture of what

Back to Campus: College Town Retirement Living From its very beginning, Kendal at Oberlin has enjoyed a close and mutually beneficial relationship with Oberlin College. Residents can audit classes at no cost with permission from the professor. They attend concerts and recitals at the Conservatory

Singing international Christmas carols, celebrating the longest night of the year, reading aloud beloved children’s books and lighting the menorah candles. These and other holiday celebrations at Kendal at Oberlin are as diverse and creative as the men and women who live and work at Kendal. Winter

On exhibit through August 14th, in all three Kendal Galleries, is “Kendal Creates,” the works of 50 resident artists.   The show includes over 120 pieces in numerous mediums, including painting in oil and acrylic, watercolors, drawings, photographs, lithographs, collage, ceramics, crewel

“I don’t have a creative bone in my body.” Bet you know someone (maybe the face in the mirror?) who has voiced this sentiment, or carries it around like a talisman. “Balderdash!” says best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert, who challenges Ted Talk listeners to replace the word “creative