In the Spotlight - Tanner Mayfield By Judy Pimperl Tanner Mayfield gets up early to pick purple hull peas before going to work at Oakwood Center for Living. Loading the morning’s harvest into recycled Wal-mart bags, he heads to work where he spends his days working with the maintenance team to keep the air conditioners working and so many other things. It’s all about the comfort and care of the residents there, but Tanner goes above and beyond what his job requires. When the pandemic struck and took a toll on so many of our elderly friends, protocols changed in our nursing facilities in an effort to protect our most vulnerable. Where they once had social events, arts and crafts and simple visits from family members, they now were isolated to keep them safe, but for so many, especially those suffering from dementia, this new reality made their situation dire. It helps the residents to have activities to keep their minds as healthy as possible, and to ...
