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May 18, 2012
Senior Saturdays
Hospital to Home
Join us for our May Senior Saturdays workshop! What should you do after being discharged from the hospital? Learn valuable tips and information that can help you regain your strength and health after you are discharged from the hospital!
Saturday, May 19, 2012
10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Presbyterian Hospital Huntersville – Community Room
Presenter:
Faye Freeze, RN, ACM, Case Manager, Presbyterian Hospital Huntersville
This is a free program and registration is encouraged.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Information on community resources will also be provided.
Call 704-316-3872 to register.
May 17, 2012
Charlotte, NC – When Dora Lee Brown heard about the Project Sundress class at The Shepherd’s Center of Charlotte’s Adventures in Learning Program this spring, she could not contain her excitement. “I’ve always been interested in children and this program offered a way for me to use my sewing talents for something good. This is an easy way to bring joy to little girls. The patterns are easy and the pieces go together quickly. What a fun way to express my creativity and help little ones as well.”
The Shepherd’s Center invites you to join us on Monday, May 21 at 12:30 p.m. at Pritchard Memorial Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 1117 South Blvd. when 100 children’s dresses will be presented to A Child’s Place. Over the past six weeks, eight women have worked on these dresses during class, which is held each Monday from 1:20-2:20. What they couldn’t finish during class, they took home.
Project Sundress was coordinated by Claudia Moses, a long-time senior student at Adventures in Learning. With the success of this class, Shepherd’s Center Program Director, Nina Arten anticipates that the program will be offered each spring. “Our theme this spring was Outreach and this was the perfect way for us to give back to the community. The seniors who participate in our Adventures in Learning Program are strong, vital individuals who care about children who are in need.”
The Shepherd’s Center of Charlotte has been serving older adults in the community since 1980. Programs currently offered include Adventures in Learning; computer classes where seniors learn how to use the computer and Travel Adventures where older adults take day trips to areas of interest in the Southeast. Services offered are medical & shopping transportation; handyman service; Income Tax assistance; Medicare Information Assistance in cooperation with SHIIP (Senior Health Insurance Information Program); and informational seminars.
For more information, please contact Linda R. Pellerin at 704.365.1995 or lrpellerin@shepherdscharlotte.org. Or visit our Web Site at www.shepherdscharlotte.org.
 Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. Yet, despite being a leading cause of death and adult disability, fewer than one in five people in the U.S. can recognize a symptom of a stroke.
Stroke strikes FAST and you should, too! Many people don’t know that being able to recognize and respond to stroke symptoms can possibly save lives. Stroke should be treated as an emergency because there is a treatment that can be given within the first three hours after symptoms
start. Recognizing stroke symptoms can be easy if you remember to think
FAST. Use FAST to remember warning signs:
F= Face Ask the person to smile. Does one side of the face droop?
A=Arms Ask the person to raise both arms. Does one arm drift downward?
S= Speech Ask the person to repeat a simple phrase. Does the speech sound slurred or strange?
T=Time f you observe any of these signs, then it’s time to call 9-1-1.
Brought to you by National Stroke Association. Learn more about stroke awareness at www.stroke.org/awareness.
Anne Elder, RN
Peninsula Agency on Aging
739 Thimble Shoals Blvd., #1006
Newport News, VA 23606
ph. 757-873-0541 fax 757-873-1437
swqaa@paainc.org
Come meet Mecklenburg County based non-profit organizations. Learn about the needs of the community and how you can help!
Wednesday, May 30th
6:30- Desserts & Coffee
7 P.M.-Presentation
Join us for a presentation on Dementia and related conditions.
Dr. Bolouri will provide updates on the latest trials and medications, as well as time for Q & A.
RSVP to Amy Curtis at
704-544-2094
acurtis@brookdaleliving.com
5515 Rea Road, Charlotte, NC 28277
This year’s Older Americans Month theme is “Never too old to play,” so we’re inviting our neighbors to come out and play with us! Come gather around the grill with family and friends as we kick off summer a little early. Enjoy hot dogs, hamburgers, and all the fixings, plus incredible live
entertainment!
RSVP to 704-795-1200.
Tony Fountain, President/CEO of Westminster Towers – Rock Hill, SC, recently received the 2012 South Carolina Institute on Aging’s Award of Honor. The acknowledgement was presented for “making a unique and/or exceptional contribution to seniors through influencing the field of aging services”. Mr. Fountain serves as Board Chair of LeadingAge South Carolina, while serving locally on the board of Hospice and Community Care, and Palmetto Volunteers in Medicine. Nationally, he is an appointed member of the Commission on Ethics in Aging Services in Washington, DC. Internationally, he serves as an accreditation surveyor through the CARF-CCAC Accreditation Commission for Aging Services. He has served in the senior living industry for twenty-four years.
An interactive, educational workshop on Medicare. Open to all the mature, adult children of the mature, adult grandchildren of the mature.
Call Edna Massey, (804) 750-1110, to schedule one of the following convenient dates:
Thursday June 14th 3:30 to 5:15 PM
Wednesday July 18th 9:15 to 11:00 AM
Tuesday August 14th 6:15 to 8:00 PM
Monday Sept 17th 10:00 to 11:45 AM
8401 Patterson Ave
Suite 105
Richmond, VA 23229
May 11, 2012
May 13-19th
“It’s so much more than moving!”
This year celebrates the 6th Annual National Senior Move Managers Week and promotes the role of the Senior Move Manager as a positive change agent in the later life transition process.
A Senior Move Manager is a professional who specializes in assisting older adults and their families with the emotional and physical aspects of relocation and/or “aging in place”. As lives get busier and adult children are living further away or simply unable to give up as much time for various reasons; support is needed to help the older adult relocate and close up their home of 30 – 40 years. Senior move managers can provide help in the following ways:
- Developing an overall move or “age in place” plan
- Organizing, sorting and downsizing
- Customized floor plans
- Arranging for the profitable disposal of unwanted items through auction, estate sale, liquidation, consignment, donation, or a combination of the above.
- Interviewing, scheduling and overseeing movers
- Arranging shipments and storage
- Professional packing
- Unpacking of items and set up of the new home
- Related services, such as cleaning, waste removal, shopping, escorting seniors, assisting with selection of realtor and helping prepare the home to be sold.
For more information or to locate a senior move manger in your area contact:
The National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM) at: 877-606-2766
Or visit: www.NASMM.org
May 10, 2012
Dementia Care:
Eating Strategies & Nutritional Awareness
June 1, 2012 (Friday)
11:00 AM Pacific / 12:00 PM Mountain / 1:00 PM Central / 2:00 PM EasternAlzheimer’s and dementia awareness has made great strides in the past 10 years.
The American Society on Aging, Senior Helpers, and the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America have partnered to present a three-part webinar series, bringing you
relevant and meaningful resources, techniques, and ideas you can immediately
implement with people who are living with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Sessions will be presented by Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA. Teepa is an occupational therapist with 31 years of experience working as a dementia care and dementia education specialist.
Dementia Care:
Eating Strategies & Nutritional Awareness
This session will identify selected key factors that affect nutrition and eating when individuals have dementia, as well as identify signs that should raise concern. Intervention strategies to promote safe and effective eating behaviors and programs through the progression of the disease will be discussed. The program will cover a variety of strategies and techniques to help address concerns by sharing how to provide the right amount and types of assistance and environmental supports for people with dementia.
Dementia Care:
Eating Strategies & Nutritional Awareness
June 1, 2012 (Friday)
11:00 AM
For more information and to pre-register, visit:
www.asaging.org/moving-forward-alzheimers-dementia-series
Earn one CEU credit per webinar while gaining valuable information that will help you in your work with older adults. It’s convenient and there’s no cost!
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