Comfort Keepers recently held a life celebration ceremony. The in-home care facility in Spanish Springs Town Square, as well as Comfort Keepers across the country, sponsored a National Day of Joy event to encourage people to celebrate joy and one another. The Comfort Keepers of Spanish Springs hosted an open house where everyone was welcome to come and connect with one another while enjoying food and refreshments.
“(It’s) to let people see each other’s faces, meet and greet in person and really see what makes people smile,” said Pam Pell, Comfort Keepers’ sales manager and care coordinator.
The National Day of Joy program has been held by the home health care service organization for the past three years. This year’s National Day of Joy was celebrated in about 450 places across the country.
“Our mission here at Comfort Keepers is not to just provide care for our clients but to give them a daily dose of joy,” Pell said. “As we age, we don’t lose that desire to still be young. … They still desire to have the same excitement and the same joy that they had when they were younger… So it’s our mission to provide something to make our clients smile when we are with them.”
Clients, caregivers, local healthcare providers and local citizens, including Gloria Puerto-Ebey, a liaison for VITAS Healthcare, a company that provides senior services, attended the recent event.
The event, according to Puerto-Ebey, is great.
“In these times when you’re hearing so (much) bad news, having one day to celebrate joy, it’s a good event to support,” she said.
Peg Mays and her friends were also present. The resident of the Village of Bridgeport in Laurel Valley was familiar with Comfort Keepers’ services because her father-in-law had employed them some years ago.
Her visit to Comfort Keepers for its National Day of Joy celebration is her second.
“I love it,” Mays said. “It just makes everybody joyful.”
Pell believed that everyone had a good time.
“Especially after this last year and a half, we all need something to make us smile,” Pell said. “… If everybody would stop and do something nice that day, put a smile on somebody else’s face, what a much better place this world would be.”