Mistaken Orders

Mistaken Orders 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦Together, let's end the stigma and misunderstanding.

❤️✨️Mistaken Orders™ offers a fresh, hopeful approach.

Let's reimagine aging and memory loss—with heart, humor, and humanity by serving kindness, one mistake at a time.✨️❤️

📅 Date: Thursday, October 8th⏰ Time: 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM📍 Location: Westwood Oaks Senior Living, Kankakee🍽️ Brunch Includ...
08/31/2026

📅 Date: Thursday, October 8th
⏰ Time: 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
📍 Location: Westwood Oaks Senior Living, Kankakee
🍽️ Brunch Included
🎟️ Tickets: $15 per person

Join us for a powerful Dementia Awareness Experience through our Mistaken Orders™ program, where mix‑ups become moments of understanding, compassion, and connection. This uplifting morning shines a light on what dementia looks like in everyday life, helping our community grow kinder, more patient, and more informed.

Your presence truly matters. Every ticket supports awareness, dignity, and the families who need our community to stand beside them. Come share brunch, smiles, and a mission that changes lives.

🖤❤️💚 Happy Juneteenth!Freedom is worth celebrating, and so is the strength, resilience, and joy of the communities who k...
06/19/2026

🖤❤️💚 Happy Juneteenth!

Freedom is worth celebrating, and so is the strength, resilience, and joy of the communities who kept it alive.

At Our Aging Services, we stand with every person we serve. Today and every day, our commitment remains the same, dignity, resources, and support for all.

To our Black elders, caregivers, and families, you are seen, valued, and never alone. 💜

06/17/2026

Would you like to host a Mistaken Orders experience?

A huge thank‑you to our amazing community partners, Bourbonnais Grove Memory Care and for standing with us in this mission. Your support helps us create spaces where people living with dementia feel seen, valued, and celebrated.

If your organization would like to host a Mistaken Orders™ experience, contact me at [email protected]. Let’s keep spreading kindness, one “mistaken” order at a time.

💜 There's a difference between helping someone and doing it for them.When someone we love is living with dementia, our i...
06/12/2026

💜 There's a difference between helping someone and doing it for them.

When someone we love is living with dementia, our instinct is to jump in. To take over. To fix it. We button the coat. We finish the sentence. We answer for them before they have the chance.

It comes from love. It always comes from love.

But here's what we've learned: every time we step back and let them try, even slowly, even imperfectly, we are giving them something no medication can.

We are giving them themselves.

Independence isn't just a practical thing. It's dignity. It's identity. It's the quiet message that says, "I still believe in you."

Your role isn't to take over their story. It's to walk beside them while they keep telling it, for as long as they possibly can. 💜

Be the support, not the substitute.

📞 888-742-2850
🌐 ouragingservices.org

💜 We go in thinking we're the ones giving.We show up ready to help, to serve, to be there for someone living with dement...
06/05/2026

💜 We go in thinking we're the ones giving.

We show up ready to help, to serve, to be there for someone living with dementia. We think we're bringing the light.

And then something unexpected happens.

They reach for your hand and squeeze it like they've known you forever. They tell you a story, vivid and alive, from sixty years ago, and you realize you're hearing something no one else in the room has ever heard. They laugh at something small, and suddenly the whole world feels a little lighter.

And you drive home different.

Quieter. Fuller. More grateful for things you stopped noticing.

That's the secret no one tells you about showing up for someone with dementia. You think you're the helper. But you walk away the one who was changed.

We don't just serve this community. This community teaches us — every single day — what it means to truly live. 💜

📞 888-742-2850
🌐 ouragingservices.org

05/29/2026

☀️📚 JUSTICE ACADEMY SUMMER PROGRAM IS HERE! 🎉

Looking for a safe, fun, and engaging summer program for your child? The Kankakee County State’s Attorney’s Office Community Division is offering a FREE summer opportunity for students in grades K–12!

Students will have the chance to:
⚽ Participate in sports camp
🎨 Explore music & art
🚌 Enjoy community events & field trips
🎤 Hear from guest speakers
📚 Receive mentoring, tutoring & summer school support
🍎 Snacks & dinner provided daily!

📍 Location: Avis Huff Center
369 N. 5th Ave. (Door 😎, Kankakee, IL

🕛 Monday–Friday | 12:30 PM – 7:00 PM
STARTING Monday 6/15/26

📝 Register now:
🌐 k3sao.com/afterschool

For more information, contact Tammy Williams:
📞 (815) 802-7864
📧 [email protected]

Help spread the word by sharing this post with families in our community! 💙💛

💜There's a moment that changes everything.It's not a medication. It's not a diagnosis. It's the moment someone living wi...
05/29/2026

💜There's a moment that changes everything.

It's not a medication. It's not a diagnosis. It's the moment someone living with dementia laughs...really laughs....because someone sat down, looked them in the eye, and said "tell me your story".

Purpose doesn't disappear with memory. Joy doesn't require a perfect mind. And no one — no one — should spend their days feeling invisible.

We show up so they never have to wonder if anyone will. 💜

📞 888-742-2850
🌐 ouragingservices.org

Today, we remember.To the men and women who gave everything so the rest of us could have ours, thank you.At Our Aging Se...
05/26/2026

Today, we remember.

To the men and women who gave everything so the rest of us could have ours, thank you.

At Our Aging Services, we are honored to serve veterans and military families every day. The sacrifice doesn't end on the battlefield, and neither does our commitment to those who carry it.

Never forgotten. Always honored. 💙

📞 888-742-2850
🌐 ouragingservices.org

05/26/2026

Congratulations to our raffle winners!

💜 Some people living with dementia just need to know they're not alone.That's the heart behind our Mistaken Orders™ prog...
05/22/2026

💜 Some people living with dementia just need to know they're not alone.

That's the heart behind our Mistaken Orders™ program.

Dementia doesn't take away someone's need to laugh, to connect, to feel seen. But too often, isolation does the rest of the damage. Research now shows that loneliness increases the risk of developing dementia by 30% and accelerates Alzheimer's by 39%. The silence around this disease is making it worse.

At Our Aging Services, we believe every person living with dementia deserves a community that meets them exactly where they are, with warmth, with humor, and without judgment.

Mistaken Orders™ was born from that belief. We're educating our community about the dementia public health crisis, the growing gap in caregivers, and what happens when we stop showing up for one another. Because showing up, laughing together, sharing a meal, simply being present — isn't just kindness. It's medicine.

If you or someone you love is walking this road, you don't have to walk it alone. 💜

📞 888-742-2850
🌐 ouragingservices.org

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Kankakee, IL
60901

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