You usually hear dementia associated with memory loss, but
it is also often expressed through ceaseless repetitive questions and
irrational behavior that can be challenging for any caregiver. To help better
understand how dementia affects the person living with dementia and the
caregiver, there will be two workshops on May 2nd presented by Vicki
Schmall, OSU Extension Gerontology Specialist Emeritus; and sponsored by OSU
Extension Service and the Oregon Geriatric Education Center and supported by Providence
Home Services.
The first workshop, “The Challenging Behaviors of Dementia:
Preventing & Responding”, will be offered at the Center from 10:00am-12:00pm.
It will provide an understanding of how brain changes resulting from dementia
affects a person’s perceptions and behavior; why challenging behaviors occur;
what to do to minimize such behaviors and intervene when the behaviors do
occur; and the adaptions the caregiver must make as dementia progresses.
The second workshop, “Packing Your “Caregiving Basket” for
Self-Care” will be offered at the Hood River Adult Center from 2:00pm - 4:00pm.
It will provide you the tools to reduce
stress, increase self-care and maintain your personal well-being while taking
care of your family member.
Besides serving tasty and healthy meals at the Center, Meals-on-Wheels
has scheduled music before their dinners on several days of the month. Starting
at 11:00, Tom Graff performs on the first and third Thursdays of each month and
on the second and fourth Tuesdays, Andre Lamoreaux and KC Kortge perform. In
addition on Thursday, April 23rd at 11:00, the excellent local bluegrass
band “Hard Shell Harmony” will be making a special appearance. They perform
throughout the Gorge and will once again be playing at the Baby Back Rib Dinner
at the Center on Friday October 2nd.
There will be a $2 a Bag Sale for used clothing and fabric at
the Center on Saturday April 18th from 8:00 to 1:00. The Center’s
Nu-2-U Shop is overflowing with clothes from the generous donations and they
need to make room. If you can’t make the Bag Sale, the Nu-2-U Shop, which offers
the best of the best used clothing at very reasonable prices, is open Monday
through Friday from 10:00 – 3:00.
It was nice to visit with U.S. Representative Greg Walden lst
Friday night when he stopped by the Center to attend Opportunity Connection’s 48th
Anniversary Dinner and show his support for the good work they do providing services
and supports for people with disabilities. Besides discussing the challenges of
life within the D.C. beltway, several of us were also able to share with him examples
of how Meals-on-Wheels and the Center are working to support older adults
Last
week I shook up the Tuesday Night Music announcement by reversing the text. See
how fast you can read this week’s mixed up announcement – which you should find
a little easier than last week’s.
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and Music Night Tuesday the For
The
name of the dance where you would 'dance' under a stick that was lowered as low
as you could go, and was popularized by Chubby Checker’s hit song “Limbo Rock”,
was, you guessed it, the Limbo. (Winner of five Necktie Quilt raffle tickets is
Corliss Marsh - and you may want to ask her what it was like being a limbo
champion.)
I
haven’t asked a question about old time radio in quite a while, so let’s see if
anyone recalls this week’s “Remember When” question. What was the name of the
satirical radio quiz show that aired from 1942 – 1951 and featured "a
board of experts who are dumber than you are and can prove it” answering
questions such as "What town in Massachusetts had the Boston Tea
Party?" Email your answer to mcseniorcenter@gmail.com, call 541-296-4788
or send it with a CD of Dr. IQ episodes.
Well,
it’s been another week, still trying to keep time to the music without falling
over. Until we meet again, you know life is unfair when the November freeze
killed many of the rose bushes, but the blackberry bushes are still thriving.
“If
we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold
the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and
pleasant waters for our old age.” Freya Stark
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