A reception was held Oct. 2 at Abundant Living Adult Day Services. Participants and family members were presented with portraits of participants donated by local artists for an exhibit called “Faces of Abundant Living.”
“These portraits are moving and beautiful gifts, which families will cherish for many years to come and are evidence of the amazing artistic talent and philanthropic spirit of the artists,” said Barbara Garwood, executive director of Abundant Living Day Services.
The portraits were exhibited in the community over a three-month period. Beginning in July, the exhibit opened at Waterworks Visual Arts Center and then traveled to Downtown Salisbury in August where portraits were displayed in the windows of Queens, Literary Book Post, Okey Dokey, Aull Printing and Taste Buds.
Participants at Abundant Living are black and white, male and female, rich and poor, educated and illiterate, and everyone in between, Garwood said. Aging, dementia and disability do not discriminate.
“Abundant Living Adult Day Services is proud to be partners in caregiving with the families we serve, as they face the challenges that aging and disability bring,” she said.
“The ‘Faces’ exhibit allows us to literally put a face on the people we serve and increase community awareness of the help that is available to families facing the challenges of aging and disability.”
Sponsors of the exhibit included Comfort Keepers, Summersett Funeral Home and Crematory, Innes Street Drug Company, F&M Bank and SunDance Rehabilitation.
Abundant Living Adult Day Services provides care to frail elderly and disabled adults in Rowan and nearby counties. Located on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Salisbury, the program currently provides care to more than fifty participants.