COLLEGE & RELATIONSHIPS

AMHERST | | DARTMOUTH

DENISON UNIVERSITY | HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE | ITHACA COLLEGE

LASALLE UNIVERSITY | | NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE

OBERLIN COLLEGE | THE STATE UNIVERSITY |

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | | UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | UNIVERSITY OF —AMHERST

VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE | WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY

WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY | WIDENER UNIVERSITY

KENDAL COLLEGE & UNIVERSIT Y RELATIONSHIPS KENDAL COLLEGE & UNIVERSIT Y RELATIONSHIPS Kendal College & University Relationships Revised, June 2018 KENDAL-CROSSLANDS COMMUNITIES (KCC) with the Immaculata University Lifelong Learning Institute. he first Kendal Communities were not developed Residents are also active alumni in several local Quaker with a university connection, but soon , such as Swarthmore and Haverford. Tafter opening, the informal affinity became readily Alumni hold luncheons (twice apparent. Retired from , a year) on the Kendal campus. Some residents audit Westtown and other educational institutions in the courses at West Chester University and KCC arranges for area were well represented among early residents. Their resident trips to cultural events at West Chester University interest in lifelong learning and in remaining active and on a regular basis. The West Chester University Office of involved in the community established a culture with a Cultural Affairs has worked closely with KCC to develop and natural inclination to college/university relationships. This promote these opportunities. culture has been transplanted to new Kendal communities, KCC hosts interns, nursing , and social work has become more formalized over time, and has led to the students from West Chester University; social work students development of creative, dynamic relationships between from ’s graduate and undergraduate Kendal communities and educational organizations. programs; nursing students from Widener University; nurse While there is no one college or university in close practitioner students from the University of Pennsylvania; proximity to the Kendal-Crosslands Communities campus, nursing students from Neuman University; nurse this Kendal affiliate has connections with several . practitioner students from Villanova; nursing students from Many residents take courses and are instructors at CCIU; physical therapy students from Temple University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University and physical therapy students from St. Francis. of Delaware in Wilmington, 10 miles south of Kendal- Faculty members from local schools serve on the KCC Crosslands, and KCC provides transportation to the Institute Board. For more than 14 years, KCC has been a site for three times a day during the week. Osher Lifelong Learning vocational explorations for students in the Discover Institute with Widener University holds regular classes on Program from the Chester County Intermediate Unit and the KCC campus. Select staff members are regular instructors recently students from other local school districts.

KENDAL COLLEGE & UNIVERSIT Y RELATIONSHIPS KENDAL AT HANOVER Resident as well as a Resident in geropsychiatry. Nurse endal at Hanover was the first Kendal community Practitioner students have completed clinical work from developed outside of Pennsylvania. Its connection Yale, , University of , and the Kto began with an English . and Quaker who, along with a group from the Kendal at Hanover has developed affiliations with the Hanover Meeting, was instrumental in Kendal at River Valley for RN and LNA students Hanover’s early development. As chair of Kendal at Hanover’s and with Vermont Technical College for LPN students. first Board of Directors, he encouraged and supported the Kendal at Hanover staff in the department of development of relationships with both Dartmouth College rehabilitation educate students in the areas of physical and Hitchcock Medical Center. therapy and occupational therapy from River Valley Later, The Institute for Lifelong Learning at Dartmouth Community College and College. (ILEAD), now OSHER at Dartmouth, was created by The Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging and Kendal Dartmouth with the participation of several Kendal at Hanover have established a working relationship, in residents. OSHER at Dartmouth develops coursework for part, through Kendal’s strategic planning process as Kendal which Kendal residents teach and many of the courses expands community awareness and outreach. This collegial are held at Kendal at Hanover. Approximately half of the relationship, through an affiliation agreement, fosters the Kendal at Hanover resident population supports the OSHER growth of the Centers for Health and Aging by having Kendal at Dartmouth program either as sponsors, participants, or taking part in integrated research with the goal of improving instructors. Kendal also provides space to OSHER quality and outcomes for older adults, conference planning at Dartmouth on campus for both residents and outside committees for community programs, and working in areas community members. related to care of the cognitively impaired. The Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic at Kendal provides Kendal at Hanover and The at geriatric primary care to all residents throughout the Dartmouth continue a rich engagement in a relationship independent community. The clinic staff also provides titled “The Art and Alzheimer’s Program.” Kendal residents a continuum of care for residents in the Health Center. who reside in Health Center visit the museum where The clinic serves as an educational setting for Dartmouth docents share art treasures with them in order to engage Hitchcock Medical Center Medical Students and Residents their reaction, as well as bringing forth memories. The who rotate through and care for Kendal residents. Kendal program involves members of the Hood Museum and at Hanover serves as a setting for an annual Palliative Care Kendal residents, staff and volunteers.

KENDAL COLLEGE & UNIVERSIT Y RELATIONSHIPS KENDAL AT OBERLIN Nursing, and . In 2017, endal at Oberlin came to be through significant Kendal at Oberlin began offering students a chance to live involvement and support of Oberlin College. and work on campus in a duplex home offering 4 private KInitially, some Oberlin College staff served on bedrooms an