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 Thoughts from the Director:
Rick Hindman
Healthy U Program Leaders Needed to Promote Healthy Aging
Does helping others inspire you? Then we need you! The Area Agency on Aging has received a grant to pay "lay" leaders for their time to become a trained leader for the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program - Healthy U.
A Healthy U leader must be a health professional and/or an individual with a chronic disease. Program participants are adults with chronic diseases that are interested in learning how to control their pain and symptoms.
The Administration on Aging and the National Council on Aging recommend this evidence-based program that is proven to improve the quality of life for people with a chronic disease.
So, if you're interested in helping others take control of a chronic disease and improve their quality of life, call today to learn more.
The training takes only 4 days and you will be paid for your training time. In addition, you would be paid for each six-week course that you instruct in the communities selected. The dates for the training are Feb. 19, 21, 26, 28 from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
For more information on the Healthy U training program, contact Cathy Ash, LSW, at AAA8 740-373-6400 or 1-800-331-2644. |
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 Caring for an aging loved one? Join the AAA8 Caregiver Support Network - a twice monthly phone call with caregivers who face similar issues and health care professionals with resources to help. Monthly: 2nd Tuesday at 10 a.m. and 3rd Thursday at 2 p.m.
Call 1-800-331-2644 to register. |
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State Releases List of Top Nursing Homes for Resident Satisfaction
Ohio nursing home residents are generally satisfied with the care they receive, according to the results of the 2007 Nursing Home Resident Satisfaction Survey, released by the Ohio Department of Aging. |
May is Older Americans Month
The theme for Older Americans Month 2008 is "Working Together for Strong,
Healthy and Supportive Communities."
Begin your celebration plans now; additional information will be available from the Administration on Aging.
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AAA8 Hosts AARP Marietta's Livable Communities Committee Launch
 A variety of representatives from Marietta attended the launch of the AARP Livable Communities Committee meeting Jan. 22 at the AAA8 office in Marietta to discuss the assets and challenges facing the city as it prepares to accomodate the growth of the city's aging population.
Pictured from left to right are: Terry Zdrale Exec. Director of the O'Neill Senior Center; Misty Casto Exec. Director of Buckeye Hills' AAA8; AARP's Rebecca Wheeler-Grieve and Marietta Mayor Michael "Moon" Mullen.
As he welcomed guests, Mayor Mullen shared, "This is not just a project, it is a process for enhancing the quality of life and an effort for sustainability of support services and access to critical community resources."
AARP representative Rebecca Wheeler-Grieve reviewed the components of a "livable community" that include:
- affordable and accessible housing;
- multiple transportation options and mobility features;
- supportive services and
- opportunities to engage in community life.
"AARP's commitment is to helping communities ensure their citizens have the options they need to age with dignity and choice," said Wheeler-Grieve. "The AARP process encourages identifying offerings and needs to show gaps as a community seeks to address the tidal wave of Boomers."
AARP provided initial results of its telephone survey that included more than 800 Marietta residents 45+. Stay tuned for more details on this exciting initiative in Southeast Ohio.
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Featured AAA8 Provider:
Scenic Hills Senior Center provides high quality programs and services which enable Hocking County's vibrant adults to lead healthy, fulfilling and independent lives.
Scenic Hills is a multipurpose senior center located in Logan, with a satellite site in Laurelville. It strives to allow seniors to remain in their own homes with a little help from us. The Center offers programs such as medical transport, homemaker services, living assistance programs and telephone reassurance/outreach.
Self-sufficient seniors are invited to visit the center daily 8-4, Monday through Friday. The center offers a comfortable, friendly atmosphere to spend your day. Activities are open to individuals 55 years of age and older. Available activities are bingo, pool, movies, fellowship, bridge, euchre, computers, exercise equipment, ping-pong, shuffleboard, drama club, shopping, line dancing, chair volleyball and more. Recreational trips include outings to malls, museums, historical sites, plays, extended trips, dinner theater and other exciting places.
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Diabetes costs nation $174 billion annually
For Congressman Zack Space (D-Dover), the disease of diabetes is a very personal issue - it afflicts his 17-year-old son. But Space cites a new report as evidence that diabetes carries a massive financial cost for the nation, and says more of a federal investment is needed to fight it.
Space attended a congressional briefing where the American Diabetes Association released a report pegging the annual pricetag of diabetes and related complications at $174 billion nationally.
Those are "war-like" spending numbers, Space said. If the federal government just spent a fraction of that amount on increased research and funding for diabetes treatment initiatives at places like the National Institutes of Health, "in the end we could save trillions of dollars," Space said.
Source: Columbus Dispatch by Jonathan Riskind, Washington bureau chief - Jan. 23
 20th Annual American Diabetes Alert Day - March 25
The American Diabetes Alert is an annual, one-day call-to-action held on the fourth Tuesday of March for people to find out if they are at risk for diabetes. The Alert's goal is to raise the awareness that diabetes is serious, you can have diabetes and not even know it, and that taking the Risk test is an easy way to find out if you are at risk for diabetes. |
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Buckeye Hills' Area Agency on Aging District 8
- Buckeye Hills Executive Director: Misty Casto
- Buckeye Hills Assistant Executive Director & Area Agency on Aging Director: Rick Hindman
- Area Agency on Aging Deputy Director: Tim Johnson
- Home Care Director: Jane Skeen, LSW
- Mindy Cayton, Planner
- Communications Director: Gwynn Clifford
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