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Please contact the Senior Center at 562-4626 for more information.Īrthritis Tai Chi is holding 4 sessions a week, 2 in Dove Creek, and 2 in Cahone.

There is transportation available for this. The senior walk is held for one hour on Mon, Wed, and Fri at the Memorial Hall Gym from 9:00am to 10:00am in Dove Creek. The Health Promotion program also provides three exercise opportunities. For more information about these classes and when they will be offered, please call Audrey at the Senior Center at 562-4626. It provides information, education, and support through home visits to homebound clients. “Healthy Ideas” was developed by the National Council on Aging. We also offer a case management program for Depression as a result of Chronic Disease called “Healthy Ideas”.

They are the Chronic Disease Self Management and Chronic Disease Self-Management for Diabetes classes. The classes are evidenced based programs developed by Stanford University. The classes are offered once a week for 2 ½ hours in the evening from 6:30-9:00. Through a grant received from the Comprecare Foundation, there will be three, 6-week sessions. The Health Promotion programs provide information, education, and support to its participants to encourage small lifestyle changes to improve quality of life. The class sizes are limited, so if you would like to attend these classes, please call Audrey at the Senior Center at 562-4626. This book contains information on hiring in-home help, helping memory impaired elders, understanding depression, making legal and financial decisions, making decisions about driving, and making decisions about facility placement. Each class participant will receive a book to accompany the class content. The classes will give the caregiver the tools to help reduce stress, communicate effectively with other family members, reduce guilt, anger, and depression, help the caregiver make tough decisions and set goals and problem solve. These classes will teach the caregiver to take care of themselves while caring for a relative or friend. These classes will be offered in April in Dove Creek, in May/June in Cortez and in August in Dove Creek. We also are offering Tools for the Caregiver classes. The Caregivers are encouraged to interact with the professionals and the providers gaining the support from the community they need to do the privileged work they do.Īs a follow-up and as continuing support for the Caregivers, we provide three Lunch & Learn sessions throughout the year, in December, March, and June, with a continuation of information, education, and support for the Caregivers. The professionals provide valuable information and education for the Caregiver. This Forum brings professionals and Caregivers together in a daylong event. This enables the Caregiver to be able to go to work, appointments, or shopping without worrying about the safety of the one they are caring for.īecause being a Caregiver is demanding emotionally, physically, and financially we offer a Caregiver Forum and Provider Fair once a year, usually in the fall, at the Cortez Senior Center. We also provide a Carelink Button for their loved one to be used in case of emergency such as a fall. We provide a hot home delivered meal for the caregiver to enjoy with their loved one. The National Family Caregiver Program provides information, assistance, respite care, and supplemental services to the Caregiver who is taking care of their loved ones at home.

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