Oak Crest In The Press

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Jukebox Friday Nights Are a Big Hit at Oak Crest

September 15, 2023 The flyer posted in the Oak Crest clubhouse read, "Does rock and roll soothe your soul?" For more than 200 residents at Oak Crest , the Erickson Senior Living community in Parkville, Md., the answer is a resounding yes! Every mont...

Martha Wheeler Moves into Her Mom's Former Apartment Home at Oak Crest

September 11, 2023 Martha Wheeler is well-acquainted with one particular one-bedroom apartment home at Oak Crest , an Erickson Senior Living community in Parkville, Md. Fifteen years ago, she helped her mother move into it--and now she lives there, ...

Oak Crest Recognized Among Baltimore Sun’s Best 2023

August 14, 2023 Oak Crest has earned an honorable mention in The Baltimore Sun ’s annual readers’ choice contest. Each year, Baltimore Sun readers have the opportunity to cast their vote on what’s the best in the region across a range of categori...

Good Times in the Great Outdoors at Oak Crest

July 11, 2023 Lillian "Lil" Donatelli knows the grounds at Oak Crest as well as anyone. She walks the one-mile "loop road" around the Erickson Senior Living -managed community in Parkville, Md., twice a week with the resident-led walking club a...

At Oak Crest, Building a Career in Care

June 30, 2023 When she was growing up, Katie Yearwood wondered why her grandmother was just getting home when most people were leaving for work. It turns out her grandmother was a nurse on the night shift. Now Katie is a nurse. And she is makin...

WJZ-TV Baltimore Visits Oak Crest

June 22, 2023 Marty Bass, broadcaster and weather reporter for WJZ-TV CBS Baltimore, recently paid a visit to Oak Crest. He chatted with Dan Plakatoris, director of sales at Oak Crest, about the community and the vibrant lifestyle it offers adu...

Oak Crest Residents Support Student Employees’ Educational Goals

June 8, 2023 Spring has sprung—and so have the pathways to college for a number of local high school students, thanks to the Student Scholar Awards at Oak Crest, an Erickson Senior Living-managed community in Parkville, Maryland. At a recent c...

Acorn After Dark Offers Oak Crest Residents a Variety of Entertaining Options

May 1, 2023 It was standing room only as Steve Bendon, a retired Air Force colonel and local Elvis impersonator, sang favorites like "Love Me Tender" and "Suspicious Minds" at Oak Crest, an Erickson Senior Living community in Parkville, Md. S...

Oak Crest Staff Members Share a Commitment to Care

March 13, 2023 Author and inspirational speaker Simon Sinek once said, "So goes the leader, so goes the culture. So goes the culture, so goes the company." That principle guides everything that team members at Oak Crest, an Erickson Senior Livin...

Enjoying the Opportunity to Socialize at Oak Crest

January 9, 2023 There's an Irish blessing that says, "There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be." It's a saying that residents of Oak Crest, an Erickson Senior Living ...

2022 Staff Appreciation Fund Brings Good Tidings to Oak Crest Staff

December 21, 2022 Smiles of staff members at Oak Crest, the Erickson Senior Living community in Parkville, Md. are shining brighter than tinsel this holiday season, thanks to residents’ generous donations to the 2022 Staff Appreciation Fund. Each y...

Careers at Oak Crest: A Recipe for Success

December 5, 2022 In the 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays a meteorologist who relives the same day over and over again. Steve Sweeney’s experience couldn’t be more different. As the general manager of three on-site restaurants at Oak Cr...

Oak Crest Celebrates the Grand Re-Opening of The Oak Room

November 3, 2022 Oak Crest, a senior living community managed by Erickson Senior Living, is celebrating the grand re-opening of The Oak Room, one of several restaurants on its 87-acre campus in Baltimore County. The venue recently underwent a comp...

Great Food with Good Friends is Always on the Menu at Oak Crest

September 15, 2022 After years of making nightly dinners for a family of seven, Marie Danner welcomed the idea of never having to plan or cook meals again. Now, as a resident of Oak Crest senior living , she doesn't have to. Marie's apartment home i...

Baltimore Sun Readers Name Oak Crest Among Best Retirement Communities

August 2, 2022 Oak Crest, an Erickson Senior Living community in Baltimore County, was recently recognized among the area’s best retirement communities by readers of The Baltimore Sun , as part of the paper’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards. Accor...

Oak Crest Residents Find More Freedom, Fewer Worries

July 25, 2022 What if, instead of mowing the lawn or washing your windows this weekend, you could be planting flowers, enjoying a delicious meal with friends, or spending time with your grandkids? There's freedom in letting go of the headaches ...

Oak Crest Residents Help Pave a Path to Success for High School Graduates

July 13, 2022 For high school seniors approaching graduation, the last few weeks are a time of reflection—to commemorate academic achievements and appreciate the value of relationships formed with teachers, coaches, friends, and mentors. For st...

Oak Crest Resident, Retired Police Officer Publishes Sixth Book

May 26, 2022 "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't," Mark Twain wrote, and it's a notion that author Dick Ellwood knows all too well. During his 25 years as a Baltimore Cit...

Oak Crest Offers Great Value and a Vibrant, Worry-Free Senior Lifestyle

April 5, 2022 Nearly 10 million Americans age 65 and older are still paying a mortgage, according to a 2021 study by LendingTree. For those on a fixed budget, paying the monthly mortgage cost - along with rising property taxes and utilities - c...

Oak Crest Welcomes Todd Sullivan as New Associate Executive Director

March 9, 2022 Oak Crest, an Erickson Senior Living community in Parkville, has named Todd Sullivan its new Associate Executive Director. Mr. Sullivan began his career with Erickson Senior Living 15 years ago, working in philanthropy and communi...

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