Lakewood Retirement Community

A Wonderful Place to Live

At Lakewood at Emeritus, we build our activity and social programs around the interests of our residents. We schedule both large and small group activities to ensure that we are offering something for everyone. There are choices of social, physical, mental, spiritual, and cultural activities. We offer many opportunities for outdoor excursions and provide a variety of entertainment in the community. We value family involvement and plan many family events throughout each month. Our residents help in the planning of activities, and we rely on them for feedback so that their activity calendar can be filled with things they enjoy.

The staff at Emeritus at Lakewood believes in promoting an active lifestyle for our residents that allows them to keep both their minds and bodies active. We offer daily exercise every morning and at least one brain-healthy activity every day. Our word find activities are particularly popular and offer not only stimulation but also healthy competition. Bingo and shuffleboard are very popular as well as our weekly cocktail party. Entertainment is planned on a regular basis and always draws a crowd. Monthly family nights with either entertainment or games are extremely popular. Families are welcome to join us and participate in many of our activities. Holiday time brings a host of special events including a "Light Up" ceremony, orchestra concert, family and resident holiday party, special entertainment, and a day long holiday bazaar with over 25 vendors here for the day. We pride ourselves on not only providing special events, but also on having a full daily calendar of activities.

Active Community Relationship

Emeritus at Lakewood is committed to community involvement. At least four times a year, we host dinners to benefit causes that particularly serve seniors in our area, such as Meals on Wheels, Kiwanis, and others. Lakewood serves as headquarters for the Friendship Fund, an organization that provides gifts for seniors during the holidays. The Red Hat Society and Jamestown Seniors meet here monthly. We also provide meeting space for the AARP Board of Directors and the United Senior Council. In addition, our community is available to groups for meetings, meals, and activities.

Partnering with the Local Community

At Emeritus of Lakewood we take pride in our community involvement. We sponsor a 2-mile stretch of Route 394 that our staff volunteers to clean up several times a year. In addition, we support our local Kiwanis Club by hosting a dinner for their benefit once a year. In return, they sponsor a game night for our residents. Further, we do benefit dinners for Meals On Wheels, the Jamestown Area Christmas Friendship Fund, and other groups that benefit seniors in the community. We serve as headquarters for the Jamestown Area Christmas Friendship Fund. This organization purchases, wraps, and distributes gifts during the holidays to all of the skilled nursing and adult homes in Chautauqua County. Our residents take pride in their ability to help with the wrapping each year. In return, all of our residents receive small gifts from the group. We work with our local schools to provide opportunities for the students and our residents to interact with each other. It is a tradition here that the 80-piece Jamestown High School orchestra plays a holiday concert in our dining room every December. Additionally, our residents have the opportunity to attend musical performances at two of our local high schools, and the cast of the Jamestown High School musical comes each year to present a preview performance.

We offer three meals a day in our beautiful spacious dining room. All meals include a variety of choices served restaurant-style in pleasant surroundings. Meals offer our residents not only tasteful, nutritional meals, but provide an opportunity to socialize with their table-mates. Refreshments and good food are a part of many of our activities, including cocktails and hors'douvres on Fridays and appetizers and wine with the Wednesday evening meal. Monthly, we offer a buffet breakfast and throughout the year, many special-event dinners.