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Spiritual Care

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Spiritual Care at Emerald Crest Centers Around Your Journey

Emerald Crest by Cassia is always striving to support residents and families with spiritual care that speaks to who they are. How do we make that happen?

  • We honor and respect each individual’s spiritual journey and offer the support needed to navigate difficult transitions and circumstances
  • We appreciate the diversity of faiths and traditions
  • We provide spiritual care that reduces fear and builds hope
  • We help our staff acquire training to enrich the quality of spiritual care

At Emerald Crest, we believe it’s essential to offer worship services that are meaningful to residents in every stage of dementia. Our worship service provides meaningful spiritual elements which trigger recognition and core memory.

Pastor Arlen Solem, Chaplain at Emerald Crest, works closely with Emerald Crest’s cognitive care specialists. He offers a sensory worship service which connects familiar Scripture readings and Bible stories with sensory engagement. The service uses recognizable hymns, readings and prayers. Sensory items are included in our worship so residents can touch feel, taste and even smell elements of the sermon story. The worship focuses on helping people make life-giving connections between mind, body and spirit, regardless of faith preferences or religion.

Those observing the service can see recognizable changes in participants. They often respond to familiar songs and readings. They nod and comment along with the story. Sensory sermons trigger memories and responses that are sometimes surprisingly creative, heartwarming and unique to every individual.

In addition to leading sensory worship services at all Emerald Crest locations, Pastor Arlen Solem is available to family members and friends in need of comfort, hope, and a listening ear. He can also provide funeral support as her schedule allows. For those who are living through a loss, injury or illness, a skillful listener who asks the right questions can help you sort through thoughts and emotions.

 

While the needs of residents may be different and change as they live at Emerald Crest, one constant support remains; our longstanding commitment to the spiritual journeys of those we serve.

Emerald Crest provides memory care in a unique environment, specifically designed to support those with cognitive issues. Utilizing this exceptional model of care, individuals with dementia, Alzheimer’s and related conditions can flourish in positive relationships and participation in meaningful activities. Memory care is offered in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul area with communities in four convenient locations: Shakopee, Burnsville, Minnetonka, MN.

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High on our list for a place for our Mom was connection to the church, closeness to her church home, Gethsemane Lutheran, and a private room with her own phone line! Mom was not the kind to share a room. Her opinions were strongly held and vocally shared. We loved that about her, but realized that another might not. Though the cooking was not to her liking ("they never met an onion") we and she realized that residents have many dietary needs. She ate dessert first. The staff, however, allowed us to buy Grape Nuts to offer when she showed up early for breakfast. We endured COVID without Mom, the former TB patient, getting it. When I had other care concerns, staff addressed those at once. It was a good place for my Mom. The Chaplain even showed up wearing a tee shirt with her photo and the phrase "Valedictorian" a fact Mom managed to mention to every new care giver.

— Carol, daughter of resident

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