The Brookhouse Home for Women has endured both the Covid 19 crisis and the Spanish flu of 1918. Our city and our women were strong and resilient then as they are now. The Spanish flu of 1918 to 1920 spread in successive waves from early cases late in 1917 through the epidemic’s recurrence in 1920.…
The ongoing restrictions of the Covid 19 pandemic has limited some of the daily activities at the Brookhouse Home but this has not stopped the ladies from continuing their knitting. The Brookhouse Home knitting group began last year and was inspired by Carol Gawrys, the Brookhouse Home Director of Nursing, who is an avid and…
Although senior living communities have become very much an accepted way of life for many of those over the age of 65, the Brookhouse Home remains a forerunner of the current senior living model, and an alternative to more costly Assisted Living options. What We Do When Capt. Robert Brookhouse gifted the home to the…