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July 2011

Volume 2, Issue 3

In This Issue
Senior Extravaganza 2011
Gregg County Summer Youth Fun Days
National Center for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment

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GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP

Care and Share Grief group meets every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at Hearts Way Hospice, 1306 Pine Tree Road, Longview, TX.  There is no charge and no reservations are required.  For more information, call Lynn at 903-295-1680. 

 

Want to avoid the Medicare drug coverage "Doughnut Hole"?  If you have Medicare Part D, you may be at risk of falling into the coverage gap or "doughnut hole".  Follow this four step tool and save money.Click here 

 

 
 Welcome
The East Texas Aging & Disability Resource Center has joined forces with the East Texas Area Agency on Aging to produce two MIPPA Public Service Announcements.  Please look for them on The Weather Channel, Hallmark, Travel Channel, CNBC and Food Network.

Senior Extravaganza 

ETCIL Summer Youth Fun Days

 

For the fourth consecutive year, the East Texas Center for Independent Living has hosted the Summer Youth Fun Days.  This year, there were 14 consumers in attendance in Gregg County.  On June 23, the group departed from the Amtrak station in Longview, TX for a train ride to the Mineola Hamburger Factory.

 

ETCIL Summer Youth 2011

National Center for Benefits

Outreach and Enrollment 

 

The Center produces and disseminates a variety of written materials about critical issues related to benefits outreach and enrollment.  In our issue briefs, experts examine selected topics related to benefits access and offer examples of successful practices to find, enroll and retain seniors and young adults with disabilities in key benefit programs.  Pleae take a moment to explore the latest brief "Crossing New Frontiers:  Benefits Access among Isolated Seniors" as well as the many past beneficial articles at: Click here
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