“I’m so honored,” she mentioned when requested concerning the award. “I simply can’t inform you…I’m so honored. It’s great.”
The Tri-State APA was to have an awards lunch final week, but it surely was canceled attributable to COVID. It’s been rescheduled for March 10, however the group did announce the winners on a Dec. 10 Zoom name.
Linn, who’s been a nurse for 35 years, had labored in long-term look after a few decade earlier than becoming a member of StoryPoint Senior Dwelling in December 2019.
“I’ve all the time beloved reminiscence care,” Linn mentioned. “You realize you made a distinction in somebody’s life. It’s like they respect no matter you do for them, irrespective of how little or how easy it’s.”
There’s “an enormous demand” for reminiscence care, she mentioned.
“There appears to be increasingly of dementia and Alzheimers (sufferers),” she mentioned. Inside a 12 months of StoryPoint opening, the reminiscence care unit crammed.
Although the work is difficult, and the workers is usually overworked, Linn mentioned she and her workers ― a lot of whom adopted her from her earlier office ― do “make a distinction” in individuals’s lives and on the finish of the day “you possibly can go house and lay your head down as a result of you recognize you’ve executed your greatest.”
