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For 70 years, Perry Lutheran Homes has been blessed to serve older adults, families, and the greater Perry community through a mission rooted in faith and carried forward in love.

On Thursday, July 30, we invite you to join us for a special day of community, reflection, and celebration at our Eden Acres Campus as we celebrate: 70 Years: Rooted in Faith, Forward in Love

Since 1956, generations of residents, families, staff, volunteers, congregations, donors, and community partners have helped shape the Perry Lutheran Homes story. Through decades of growth and change,

Perry Lutheran Homes staffer, Tonya Swank, has been named the 2022 Iowa Excellence in Leadership Award by LeadingAge Iowa.

The community of Perry continues to StepUp to join Perry Lutheran Homes to care for the most pressing needs of its elderly citizens. A recent example that demonstrates the heart this community has for its elderly residents is a gift of $3,000 given by Heather Bruce and her team at Osmundson Manufacturing. This gift will be used to provide and deliver daily hot meals to homebound elderly and disabled people in Perry and Northern Dallas County through Perry Lutheran Homes’ Meals on Wheels project.

Melissa Gannon, Chief Operating Officer at Perry

Do you have a bowling alley in your home? Well we do!

Keep living life to the fullest with us at Perry Lutheran Homes! As you can see from the videos, our residents were on fire with strikes and spares galore!

Our recreational activities program (and our amazing activities team) are fun, diverse and keep you or your loved one engaged with life in all sorts of interesting ways from sports to children to music to trips to crafts and so much more.

Stop by and take a tour and experience our fun and

The weekly senior fellowship meal at the McCreary Center is anticipated to start again in October.

The second, annual Run Through Time 5K fun run or walk is set to take place in Perry on Saturday, July 6 at 7PM in conjunction with other Perry, Iowa sesquicentennial celebration events. This run is presented by Perry Lutheran Homes and continues community-wide efforts to StepUp (Serve Together our Elderly in Perry) and take action to help our local elder citizens in need.

Local businesses, church groups, athletic groups, civic and social groups, families, and friends are encouraged to form teams and join in the fun. The Run

Perry
Lutheran Homes is looking for another 280 volunteers to reach the whopping
100,000 total meal packs complete mark on May 1, 2019. The meal packing event
will take place on Wednesday, May 1, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Perry
Lutheran Homes’ Willis Campus located at 2323 Willis Ave, Perry, IA. This year
will mark final year packaging another 30,000 meals in one day for a combined
four-year total of over 100,000 meal packs complete helping over 600,000 undernourished
people in need across the US and in third world countries.

 “Our residents, staff

First Residents Successfully Admitted into Jacmel Lutheran
Home by Perry Lutheran Homes Team

Perry, IA, January 21, 2019–
Despite challenging circumstances while in Haiti, the Perry Lutheran Homes and
Lutheran Family Service team, together with Ministry in Mission, were able to
open and admit the first residents into the Jacmel Lutheran Home in Jacmel,
Haiti January 9 – 16. The eldercare home was designed to provide care for ten
of Jacmel’s most vulnerable elders.

A group of
top nurses in Haiti spent two days with top nurses from Iowa, Melissa Gannon,
Kelly Moore and Deb Koelln of

Perry Lutheran Home and Acorns & Oaks Christian Daycare have partnered together to create a unique, yet perfect, match. Intergenerational programs offer younger and older generations the opportunity to interact, engage, and form connections that benefit both the individuals and the community. This life-enriching mission will provide countless benefits to both residents at Perry Lutheran Home and children at Acorns & Oaks.

“Perry Lutheran Home is one of the very few in Iowa, if not the nation, to offer Intergenerational, Christian Daycare in a long-term care setting. When you think about

Perry Lutheran Home (PLH) announces the launch of a new “Music & Memory” program which brings iPods filled with personalized music selections to residents with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia to enhance their memories and enrich their lives. Grounded in research about how brains respond to music, the pilot program will engage fourteen Perry Lutheran Home residents who will have the opportunity to benefit from the therapeutic potential of music to tap deep memories and reconnect with the world. Perry Lutheran Home is one of only nineteen “Music & Memory” certified