The Danish Home has been busy renovating and remodeling to meet the needs of today’s seniors.
Discovered Treasure Trove Shows That Danish Home Resident’s Love Story Came True
Discovered Treasure Trove Shows That Danish Home Resident’s Love Story Came True It’s like a Nicholas Sparks love story, and a Hallmark movie all rolled into one, with the added bonus that it’s all true. Maddie Hopkins, a resident of Wicker Park, went antiquing earlier this spring and wandered into Lost Eras, an antique shop…
Taking Stock of Other Ways to Give to Our Capital Campaign
Launched in 2018, The Danish Home Foundation’s $10.5 million “Our Future in Focus” Capital Campaign for physical improvements to our building and increased charitable care has made significant progress. Generous friends and sponsors of The Danish Home of Chicago have buttressed our plans for the future, and we are ever grateful to them. Even amidst…
Medical Friends of The Danish Home Provide Welcome Assistance
We all “get by with a little help from our friends.” At The Danish Home of Chicago, a boutique retirement community in Norwood Park, friends provided more than a little help when busy staff needed it most. Fortunate to have personal ties to trained medical professionals, nursing staff at The Danish Home gratefully enlisted their…
Childhood Polio Victim First to Receive COVID Vaccine at The Danish Home
Eivind Torske walks with the limp he’s had since childhood, when he was stricken with polio as a young boy. It is only fitting, then, that the 88-year-old Norwegian-born resident of The Danish Home of Chicago was first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when it came to the boutique senior living community in January. A…
Pen Pal Program Etched in Devotion to The Danish Home
The Danish Home of Chicago is resurrecting an old practice to address a new challenge. Since the pandemic has prohibited residents of the boutique senior living community in Norwood Park from visiting with the volunteers they’re used to seeing on a regular basis, they’re exchanging cards and letters with them instead – a good, old-fashioned…
The Danish Home of Chicago and Foundation Recognized With Prestigious Royal Grant
The Danish Home of Chicago and The Danish Home Foundation are proud to announce that “Dronning Margrethes and Prins Henriks Fond” (Queen Margrethe’s and Prince Henrik’s Foundation) in Denmark has awarded a generous grant to The Danish Home Foundation’s “Our Future in Focus” capital campaign. The Danish royal foundation supports cultural, scientific and social purposes in the…
