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Remember your Valentine with an Inspired Gift!
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Caregiver Support Groups
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First & Third Mondays
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Save The Date
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NSES is the big 3-0!
Join us over the fondue pot as we turn the clock back 30
years. Dig out your cosmic threads and get ready to cut a shag rug!
Torigian Community Life
Center, Peabody
{keep it mellow, details to follow}
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"Puck"er Up Raffle
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Raffle tickets will be available through February 14th
to benefit our client emergency fund at NSES.
Grand Prize is a pair of Center-ice Bruins tickets
for Feb 26th.
Other prizes include restaurant gift certificates, jewelry,
chocolates and a spa gift basket.
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 Successfully Surviving
SIMS
-Paul J. Lanzikos
Two of the hallmarks of the staff at North
Shore Elder Services are caring attitudes and professional
competence. These qualities were well demonstrated during the last
few months as NSES made a computer software transition to
"Senior Information Management System" or SIMS.
Our former system, HOMIS, hadn't been updated since the mid-90's.
The implementation of SIMS has created
major changes in the way case management is conducted. Staff will be able
to update and access client records from their laptops on- site in
our clients' home via a confidential and secure internet
portal. With so much change, it would have been entirely
understandable to hear a lot of moaning and grumbling. Not a complaint or
a whine was heard!
Instead staff
rolled up their sleeves and put their full effort into the transition
process. While there are still kinks in the system, and people are
in a learning mode, we have definitely made it successfully through the
toughest part of the conversion.
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 Staff Complete Alzheimer's Disease
Training
-Gwen Kopka, Program Director
Twenty-five NSES staff recently completed
a comprehensive Alzheimer's Disease Certificate Program. Participants
included Case Managers, Nurses, Family Caregiver Specialists, Housing
Coordinators, Protective Service Clinicians and Nursing Home Ombudsman
Coordinators.
This 12-hour training program was
presented by certified Alzheimer's trainers Darcy Adams, LICSW, who is
the Director of Community Programs for Northeast Senior Health and Beth Desrocher, RN, of NSPRN, who is a consultant
for Spectrum Adult Day Health at the Cummings Center.
As they said, "we would not put up with a
generalized cancer diagnosis, so why do we put up with a generalized
dementia diagnosis?" Read more...
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 Tax Refund
Workshops
Sign up now
AARP Tax Aide Volunteer, Gerald Stepner
will be speaking at NSES on the "circuit breaker"
property tax credit for seniors 65 and older. Find out if you or your
loved one qualify for credits up to
$3,340 even if you don't usually file. Jerry will also be
spreading the word on the telephone excise tax refund that is widely
available. Please call our Information & Referral department
at 978-750-4540 to RSVP.
- February 6th
6:00-7:00 p.m.
- March 6th
10:00-11:00 a.m
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Danvers Senior
Center offers free "File of Life"
Visit the Danvers
Senior Center
on February 15th for
lunch with a little live music from the Maple Sugar Jazz
Band and sign up for a free "File of Life."
Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. Seniors can also pose for a photo
on their new ID cards while they fill out their File of Life cards
up until 2:30 p.m.
The File of Life details a
person's name, emergency contacts, health status, medications, allergies
and doctor's contact information.
This information is placed in a magnetic sleeve to be kept on the
refrigerator, so it is always handy.
Seniors are encouraged to bring medical information and a list of
medications with them. Volunteers will be on hand to help
out. Luncheon will include ziti with meat sauce or Siesta fish ($2
suggested donation). Please RSVP
for the lunch by 10:00 a.m. the day before
to the Danvers
Senior Center
at 978-762-0208.
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The Shoreline welcomes your submissions
If you have announcements, events or resources you would like to share with
the community please email us at newsletter@nselder.org or
give us a call: 978-750-4540 TTY 978-624-2244.
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