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February 2021
Foundation House Times
A not-for-profit retirement community
VIDEO CHAT TIPS AND TRICKS
As we are all spending more and more time online in video chats, it is important we are seen and heard as
much as possible. Here are some tips and tricks to try and optimize your calls from Valerie of the Senior Care
Industry NetCast:
LIGHT YOUR FACE: It’s best to start with lighting because that will dictate where you are sitting. Open up
your shades and let the natural light pour in, but don’t let all that light hit your back. Face your brightest
source of light (usually a window). It’ll look better for you and everyone else on the call.
RAISE YOUR CAMERA: There is one, and only one, acceptable camera angle: head-on and at eye level.
Your table is almost certainly going to be lower than your face, and that means people are going to get
an unflattering look up at you. Use a set of books, a stool, or a higher table to make sure your camera is
at the same level as your eyes. You don’t want people to feel like they are looking up or down at you.
TEST YOUR VIDEO BEFORE THE CALL: You want to show up to your meeting already looking good so that
you’re not adjusting your surroundings, screen brightness, angle, or hair, live for everyone to see. Zoom
has an option for showing you a preview of your video before the call starts. If you select this option, a
video preview will pop up before you enter a call to check how everything looks.
FIND A QUIET PLACE (AND YOUR BEST HEADPHONES): Most of us don’t have a great deal of control over
audio, but you’ll sound better if you take a call in a quiet place. Also keep in mind that your headphones
might have a better mic than your computer. Most videoconferencing apps have a tool in their settings
for testing your mic, and I recommend collecting all the mics in your house (headphones often have one
built in) and testing them out to find the one that sounds clearest.
GET COMFORTABLE: Much like being in a physical meeting, once you join a call, you shouldn’t be getting
up and moving around. Start with a comfortable place to sit or stand for a long period of time. Although I
like to sit on my bed, I found that sitting crossed leg for more than 20 minutes is not comfortable for me,
so I moved my video call setup to my standing desk. If you are using a laptop, have a charger plugged in
and ready for when your battery gets low. I also like to bring a water bottle and cup of coffee to my
meetings.
Mobile Library
Monday, February 1st
Monday, March 1st
Mobile Library will be visiting FH on the first Monday of every month (between 9:00 am-12:00 pm). Please
return all library materials to the red bins outside of the Activities office and we will return them for you.
When we receive the library materials (books, DVDs, etc.) on Monday morning, we will let you know if there
are items available for you to pick up at the Front Desk. Place your holds with the Seattle Public Library
online, by phone, or using a yellow request slip (can be found at the Activity Table—submit to the Front
Desk). If you have any questions about Mobile Library, please call Activities at ext. 106.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Please Keep In Mind: We are still in Phase 1... effects or adverse reactions for 15-20 minutes. It is
In November, King County Public Health Department definitely helpful to bring down your insurance infor-
issued a letter guiding all long term care facilities to im- mation just in case. Please consult with your own doc-
plement Phase 1 of the Long Term Care Safe Start Plan. tors for more information or to address your concerns
During Phase 1, outdoor visitation is limited to two (2) around vaccines.
visitors per day and indoor visitation is limited to end
of life or, if a resident is unable to participate in out- Housekeeping
door or remote visits, an essential support person is Housekeeping will be temporarily resuming for North
allowed to visit once daily only for a compassionate building residents. South building residents—
care reason. In addition, group activities are restricted housekeeping will resume once we have gone 14 days
and communal dining is not recommended. We will with no new confirmed positive cases. In the mean-
also be discontinuing outside services such as Foot time, feel free to put out trash or recycling on your
Care and the Hair Salon for the time being. Just a re- scheduled housekeeping days to be picked up. If you
minder to everyone that anytime you are outside of have any questions, please call the Front Desk.
your apartments in public space, please wear your
masks! Thank you all for your cooperation and flexibil- Food Containers
ity. For now, we are pausing collection of all food contain-
ers and bags. You are welcome to hold onto them until
Weekly COVID Testing we resume collecting. If you’d like to dispose of them,
We will be conducting community-wide testing every the plastic containers and bags are all recyclable.
week until we go 14 days without any confirmed posi- Styrofoam soup and salad containers however, should
tive results. Please stay tuned for details on individual be thrown in the garbage. Feel free to dispose of gar-
testing dates and procedures! We encourage you to go bage and recycling in garage or parking lot containers.
about your day normally—go out for a walk, run an er-
rand, or take a doctor appointment! If we miss you Foot Care/Hair Salon
that’s okay, we will touch base with you later in the Foot Care services and the Hair Salon are temporarily
day. If the day will not work for you altogether, please suspended as we navigate the outbreak here at FH. We
let Pam or Patricia know and we will work on finding will consider resuming services once we have had no
another date and time to administer your test. If you new confirmed positive cases for 14 days. Taking into
have any questions, call ext. 102 or email Pam at account our current position—we are hopeful these
pwilliams@foundationhouseng.com. Thank you! services may be able to resume later in February.
Upcoming COVID Vaccine Clinics Doctor Rides
Our second vaccine clinic has been confirmed for We will give doctor rides on Wednesdays or Thursdays
Wednesday, February 3rd, starting at 9:00 am. We are between the hours of 8:00 am-3:00 pm. Please keep in
still waiting for confirmation on our third and final clinic mind we are currently only transporting to more
to take place on Wednesday, February 24th. If this is “essential” healthcare appointments. These are all ap-
your first dose, we will plan on providing your second pointments to maintain your body and overall wellbe-
dose during the third clinic on Wednesday, February ing. That is a pretty broad range, so feel free to ask if
24th. Please stay tuned for additional details and pro- your appointment might qualify.
cedures. On the day of the clinic, we will be calling resi-
dents to come down individually (please do not call the Catholic Communion
Front Desk). Vaccine check in and administration will Unfortunately, there will be no Catholic Communion
be located in the 3rd Dining Room. There will be an ad- this month due to Phase 1 COVID guidelines. Please
jacent area set up in the 2nd Dining Room so that we stay tuned for updates on the next tentatively sched-
can monitor all who received the vaccine for any side uled date on Wednesday, March 3rd.
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FEBRUARY ACTIVITIES
We've got a lot of options here at FH. For now, you can plants in the area. In this virtual talk, David will
catch these activities on Zoom - we would definitely describe the pre-settlement botanical landscape
recommend using a tablet or computer, but you can of Seattle by examining modern clues, such as
also join us by telephone. Please let us know if you'd neighborhood names, big stumps, and big trees,
like help getting connected! that provide hints for telling this story and for
showing the complexity and beauty of Seattle
Zoom.us/join 150 years ago. Meeting details to come.
(206) 337-9723
Virtual Escape Room—Moriarty’s Parlor: Tues-
Current Events with Jacob Bolotin: Tuesdays, Feb- day, February 23rd at 2:00 pm. Pre-pandemic,
ruary 2nd and 16th at 3:00 pm. Jacob Bo- escape rooms were a really unique experience
lotin covers world affairs, foreign policy, and na- where you started out trapped in a room with a
tional and local issues in this one-hour discussion. group (of your choosing) that contained hidden
Meeting ID: 814 5696 8067 clues and puzzles you needed to use in order to
escape... The online version takes place at home
Contemporary Ethics with David Smith: Thursday, on our computers. Our theme “Moriarty’s Parlor”
February 11th at 10:30 am. This is our last week of is inspired by the Sherlock Holmes mystery se-
Contemporary Ethics! Meeting ID: 929 0918 0962 ries. Together we will be exploring and gathering
clues from multiple places on the web, so the
New Testament with David Smith: Thursday, Feb- event is best done on a computer with Internet.
ruary 25th at 10:30 am. Tune in for David’s new There is a group limit of 7, so we would like to
lecture series. An academic analysis of the New know how many might be interested in playing.
Testament. This is not a “Bible study” and will not Sign up at the Activity Table! Meeting details to
be taught from a religious point of view. We will come.
use historical, literary, and philosophical methods
to shed light on the oral traditions and written Singalong with Miriam Anderson: Mondays at
sources behind the texts, the development of the 2:00 pm. There are so many positive benefits to
New Testament canon, scribal work, and the mean- singing and music in our lives. Join us every week
ing(s) of these texts. You are encouraged to bring - we sing everything from folk to oldies pop and
the Bible of your choice to each session. Meeting jazz numbers! Meeting ID: 847 5177 2846
ID: 929 0918 0962
Crafting Group with Elisabeth Mitchell: Mondays
“Dinosaurs of the Royal Tyrrell Museum” with Da- at 11:00 am. Every week we join Elisabeth for
vid Kaynor: Tuesday, February 9th at 11:00 am. different, small crafting projects. It is a nice chill
Widely considered the finest dinosaur museum in time to sit and create with others. Meeting ID:
the world, this is a must see museum for any lover 830 4861 4731
of paleontology. Inside you will see T Rex, Stego-
saurus, Triceratops and much, much more. Trivia: Fridays at 2:00 pm. This is a lively one
Meeting ID: 851 9384 2297, Password: 720590 hour trivia session where we w ill test your trivia
chops! We cover geography, history, arts and lit-
“Secrets of Seattle’s Botanical Past” with David erature, and more! Meeting ID: 829 2171 1019
Williams: Thursday, February 18th at 1:00 pm. If
you asked early citizens of Seattle which natural Foundation House Chat: Thursdays at 2:00 pm.
feature best symbolized the region, few would An opportunity to virtually meet and catch up
have hesitated in responding “Douglas firs.” These with other residents and staff. Meeting ID: 821
trees were everywhere, but they were not the only 5795 8931
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REFER A FRIEND
We would like to extend great gratitude to all of you FHN STAFF
who have Referred-a-Friend to Foundation House in
Executive Director
the past! With vaccines administered and new begin- Pamela Williams
nings ahead, please let Lynn know of any friends who
you think would enjoy living here by calling ext. 103 or Personal Care Director
Patricia Sharp
emailing lcreasy@foundationhouseng.com. After your
friend has lived here for 90 days, you will receive a Director of Dietary Services
$500 rent credit! Steve George
Director of Maintenance
Matt Morgan
Community Relations
Director
Check out the Foundation House at Northgate Facebook Lynn Creasy
page! We share all kinds of fun photos, articles, updates, and Activities Director
more… Shayna Wong
www.facebook.com/foundationhouseng
FEBRUARY
BIRTHDAYS
ANONYMOUSE
This month's column is submitted on behalf of Anony, in the spirit of Anony.
By Emily Dickinson Residents:
Barbara M. 2/1
“Hope” is the thing with feathers Chuck M. 2/3
That perches in the soul, Mary B. 2/4
And sings the tune without the words, Frieda K. 2/15
And never stops at all. Edna P. 2/17
Char P. 2/21
And sweetest in the gale is heard; Ann R. 2/22
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird Employees:
That kept so many warm. Matt M. 2/3
Pam W. 2/19
I’ve heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
Arrivederci!
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