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Cambridge senior communities assemble Deployment Care Packages
COURTESY OF THE CAMBRIDGE HOMES INDEPENDENT AND ASSISTED LIVING
The Cambridge Homes Independent and Assisted Living community, among other local facilities, recently assembled nearly 1,000 Deployment Care Packages.
When Teresa Burns, executive director at The Cambridge Homes Independent and Assisted Living, received her son’s deployment date overseas, she sprang into action to ensure his entire unit would have essential travel items. This was no small task; 325 soldiers were deploying on a three-leg trip, and the soldiers were set to receive a different care package on each leg of the journey.
With 975 goody bags to assemble, Burns reached out for support on social media, where friends and family stepped in to help. She also sent out an email to her colleagues at Senior Living Residences, which manages The Cambridge Homes and 16 other independent, assisted living and Compass Memory Support communities across New Eng