Being grateful during this Thanksgiving

The Brookhouse Home was featured this week in Gannett Company, Inc.’s regional newspapers which include the Salem Gazette, the Medford Transcript and many others. The article, written by correspondent Lara Salahi addressed how seniors are feeling isolated during the holidays as we enter a difficult time with the Covid-19 pandemic and its risk to seniors.…

Rest Homes adapt to challenges of COVID-19

The 76 Rest Home’s throughout Massachusetts, including the Brookhouse Home have served our communities well during this ongoing pandemic. The public, the families and our staff and residents all appreciate how we have handled this crisis. Expanding roles during a pandemic Prior to the pandemic Rest Homes did not have to do infectious disease testing,…

The Brookhouse Has Seen it All

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.…

A Rest Home at the forefront

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…