{"id":2253,"date":"2026-02-13T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:28:30","slug":"the-light-of-care-episode-7-life-on-your-terms-senior-independent-living-with-eleanor-lanuza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/2026\/02\/13\/the-light-of-care-episode-7-life-on-your-terms-senior-independent-living-with-eleanor-lanuza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light of Care | Episode 7 &#8211; Life on Your Terms: Senior Independent Living with Eleanor Lanuza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode of The Light of Care, host Lynn Carteris sits down with Eleanor Lanuza, Senior Director of Sales and Marketing at The Avant Palo Alto and Palo Alto Commons, to explore what independent senior living truly looks like. Together, they discuss who independent living is designed for, how it differs from assisted living, and how these communities support connection, independence, and quality of life. This conversation offers clarity and reassurance for families exploring senior living options and for seniors seeking to live life on their own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Light of Care | Episode 7 - Life on Your Terms: Senior Independent Living with Eleanor Lanuza\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KN7gX_lsscQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of The Light of Care, host Lynn Carteris sits down with Eleanor Lanuza, Senior Director of Sales and Marketing at The Avant Palo Alto and Palo Alto Commons, to explore what independent senior living truly looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-redwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}