The Latest News About Piedmont Gardens

When Marilyn Petch leaves her father, Richard, each day, she knows he’s safe and comfortable in his room at The Grove at Piedmont Gardens in Oakland, Calif.

Florence Yaffe was teaching junior high science in California’s West Contra Costa school district when one day a student handed her a jar containing about 25 silkworms. The student’s mother, also a teacher, thought Yaffe might be interested in raising them with her class.

Finally, it was time. Everything was ready and it was perfect and beautiful, right down to the smallest detail – the arrangement of fresh flowers, the warm garden breeze, the cheerful mementos on the wall. And then the door to ABHOW’s newest Grove swung open wide.

The Masterpiece Living philosophy has been embraced by Piedmont Gardens. Residents there have taken up physical activity to not only feel better but also improve relationships with their neighbors. In last years Walk to Wellness competition among ABHOW communities, Piedmont Gardens finished near the top with a count of more than 8.7 million steps in one month.

Autumn, 1945. Trains all over the U.S. were filled with newly demobilized troops. Among them, traveling from Philadelphia to Denver, was a young man with a French horn. At the tender age of 17, Jim Callahan was on his way to take up a position with the Denver Symphony Orchestra.