You’ll experience the warm and vibrant feeling for yourself as you meet staff and residents. Briarwood is so friendly, active, and secure; you’ll wish you had found us sooner. Our continuum of care means that as you age or as your circumstances change, you are able to transition from independent living to assistance in living or Knollwood Nursing Center without ever leaving Briarwood. You’ll find a healthy lifestyle here that encourages independence and enjoying life to its fullest – among friends.
Thanks to our residents, we often seem to be a Continuing Activities Community. We love it, and so will you. Whether planned or spur of the moment, most activities are typically resident-managed with the Briarwood staff helping as needed. The wood working shop, library, lounges, and craft rooms bustle with neighbors and friends eager to learn, eager to teach.
On any given day you may see an artist creating a stained glass panel, a computer class, a resident-run talent show, a group departing on a trip to Newport. Others head to the fitness center where a professional trainer will assist in the development of a training program designed to complement our state of the art strength equipment. At day’s end, residents can meet in the Dining Room and choose from a menu that rivals the best restaurants around.
Should you need more personal assistance at anytime, you can take advantage of Briarwood’s supportive living services. Rehabilitation and nursing services are provided at Knollwood Nursing Center where Briarwood residents have priority admission. Your neighbors and friends will still be here watching out for you and we’ll be here continuing our care.
Briarwood’s mission is to enhance the well-being, independence and personal fulfillment of its residents and other seniors by providing high quality, coordinated housing, health, wellness and supportive services consistent with the caring spirit of the founding churches.
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Video Transcript
Time: 4 min 1 sec
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This is part 1 of the Introduction Video for Briarwood Retirement Center, located at 65 Briarwood Circle, Worcester, MA 01606 or online at
Transcript:
are you over 62 years of age are you tired of the upkeep and all the work and maintenance associated with owning a home are you thinking it's time to downsize and sell the old homestead have you thought of moving from your home into a continuing care community rather than a condo by moving to a continuing care community you have all the advantages and independence of condo living plus the enjoyment of dining with friends in a centralized dining room enjoying wellness and fitness programs and most important having the assurance and availability of a graduated health care system to meet your changing needs you might never move again are you ready to enjoy your retirement years without the maintenance and responsibilities of owning a house are you ready to preserve your independence and continue your present lifestyle are you ready for Briarwood our mission is to offer an active healthy independent secure lifestyle at an affordable cost Briarwood is a non-profit nondenominational community composed of 105 cottages and 64 apartments for independent living with an additional twenty seven apartments for assisted living our campus also includes knollwood an 82 bed nursing and rehabilitation center offering both short-term and long-term care at Briarwood you'll live in a village like setting where virtually all of your needs are met feel secure in our safe and relaxed community which provides as much care and assistance as you need regardless of your age or health it's the best gift you can give your children if you are ready to be independent but not alone join the briarwood family where people are friendly compassionate and truly care about each other and so when we retired we began looking at retirement centers author of Yelena and we decided that Briarwood was the place to be it was affordable it was a quality place there was a spirit within the staff and community of the people we met and at the heart of it though there was a really big reason we have six children all who live in New England that Massachusetts New Hampshire and Connecticut and worcester is central to where all of our children are living and so that's been helped to us in order to visit with them and for them to come and visit with us and we're just so glad for the people we meeting here from the staff and we think it's the place we want to be for as long as we live and we like to say to friends and we downsize so we could live more simply and simply live more fully and that's that's happening if we felt it was time for us to begin to think about a change we were been in our early 70s mid 70s and we knew things were going to change and we'd like to sort of be in charge as much as we could of the decision and have some time to enjoy a new spot and become a part of a community every place we looked at was measured in terms of how it compared with Briarwood which looked to us from the beginning to be just about everything we wanted I remember we came 12 years ago right around the first of June and that I couldn't wait to get up the next morning my first night we slept here I got up and went for a walk and my word i thought i had that there were birds singing in the trees I walked down across a little stream and there was a life around
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