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A Free Publication of the Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging, Inc. Advocacy, Action and Answers on Aging for Shawnee, Jefferson and Douglas Counties Summer 2016 A free publication of the Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging, Inc. Advocacy, Action and Answers on Aging for Shawnee, Jefferson and Douglas Counties Summer 2016 Our Mission Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging, Inc. advocates on aging issues, builds community partnerships and implements programs within Shawnee, Jefferson, and Douglas counties to help seniors live independent and dignifi ed lives. A standing- • Is a 501(c)3 non-profi t room-only organization audience listens • Is funded by tax-deductible intently as contributions, federal funds, under state general Silver Haired funds and funds through Legislature local governments President Jay • Does not discriminate on Rowh speaks the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, about Senior religion, or disability Care Act cuts. Please see story on page 3. www.jhawkaaa.org A Message from Jocelyn Lyons, JAAA Executive Director My past articles in the Amaz- to reach their golden years. I study was due to the shortfall in State when this information was ing Aging newspaper have been them as I sit at a restaurant, walk General Funds which resulted in printed in one of our area news- personal refl ections and this one through the mall, visit the hospital a 30% statewide reduction in a papers, a State offi cial stated that will not be any different. The only and view through their eyes as a program that provides in-home “family and community mem- difference with this column is the resident of long term care facilities. services such as bathing and bers would likely take up the diffi culty of refl ecting my feelings There is no greater generation homemaker services. However, slack and help those seniors.” with so little space. than our senior generation. A for JAAA, the reduction was 39%. (As I type this I am angry again at I have written in proud generation, one Hearing such news was shocking the lack of empathy.) I wish that the past how I felt that that has pride in our to say the least, because in my offi cial would have contacted our from childhood I was communities and pride near 40-year tenure with JAAA offi ce or any of the ten other AAAs groomed to have a in their civic advocacy we have never experienced such to learn about the program and career in the aging net- efforts that reaped the a loss in funds that signifi cantly the clients we serve. I would have work. My childhood benefi ts they enjoy and gravely impacts the most told the offi cial that the family was centered on the today and established vulnerable senior population. and/or community are already elders in my neighbor- for senior generations SCA program serves the home- involved in the senior’s care, but hood and elder family following them. My bound senior. A senior who needs they cannot do it all. Example, I members and their work at JAAA is not a assistance to remain independent, would not want my son bathing friends. I refl ect how I job, it is a passion, it is my a senior who elects to remain in me! Allow me to have some dig- studied them, listened and learned mission, it is my purpose! their home rather than enter a facil- nity please. from my elders. That continued That love was challenged in ity, a senior who has some family/ Lastly, the fi nal blow was the into adulthood and here at JAAA. I being informed by the Kansas friend assisting, but more assis- impact the reductions had on was taught respect and taught love. Department for Aging and Dis- tance is needed. This is a senior the administration of JAAA. The I listened to their stories about abilities Services of the reduction who is paying toward the costs of reduction called for layoffs and their childhood, early adulthood of Senior Care Act (SCA) funds the service they are receiving. This reduction of staff hours. A total and the hard times they endured this past spring. The reduction is your family member, friend, and of fi ve positions were signifi cantly neighbor. This is a person who is impacted. The manner in which still contributing to the tax base of case management will be provided • Amazing Aging is a publication of Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging, Inc. our communities. These are our will further impact our serving of • Funded by annual contributions from readers like you, and advertising seniors who have worked hard, sac- our SCA clients. • Copies distributed: 7,000+ rifi ced, and continue to be active in JAAA is a family. I acknowledge their civic duties as best they can. JAAA staff as the best staff of any You are encouraged to write us at: And it just angers me how little organization. The case managers regard and respect is given for this go above and beyond our expec- Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging, Inc. great population. tations. They have established 2910 SW Topeka Blvd. The reduction impacts 172 intimate relationships with their Topeka, KS 66611-2121 persons in our area. Upon being clients. The services they provide (800) 798-1366 or (785) 235-1367 informed of the reductions, JAAA are valuable to many of our cli- immediately had no other choice ents and their family members. Marsha Henry Goff, editor but to implement a wait list. JAAA Case managers are ensuring their had no other choice but to make clients’ needs are being addressed, Amazing Aging is a publication of Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging. Publishing diffi cult decisions to reduce the evaluating their safety, and honor- of letters from readers, opinion columns or advertising does not constitute agree- hours of services to our clients. So ing them as an elder. ment or endorsement by this newsletter or Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging. as I’ve stated in print and television The reduction to the Senior Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, interviews, effective July 1, our cli- Care Act program is demeaning, national origin, sex, age, or handicap. If you feel you have been discriminated ents now receive one bath every disrespectful, and morally wrong. against, you have a right to fi le a complaint with the Agency. In accordance with two weeks. ONE!!! That is dang The State of Kansas is better than ADA regulations, every effort will be made to accommodate people with dis- (I really want to use stronger lan- this and needs to do better by this abilities. If you need special assistance, please call Jocelyn Lyons at Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging, Inc. guage) shameful. population. Now to add insult to injury, Seniors Count! 2 • Summer 2016 AMAZING AGING! Senior Care Act cuts are ‘penny wise and pound foolish’ By Marsha Henry Goff asked to sacrifi ce their own wellbeing She worries a great deal about went to a rehab center where she was and independence as a result of the transportation. “I have to have spe- “taught to be blind. They taught me Surveying the standing-room- Kansas revenue shortfall.” cial transportation which is $8 a how to walk with a cane and how to only crowd attending the press con- Jocelyn Lyons, executive director of round trip. I can’t afford that.” Her read using Braille.” ference to address recent Senior Care JAAA, says the agency faces a 39 per- aide, Sara, solves the transportation After completing her blind train- Act (SCA) cuts, Jay Rowh, Beloit, cent cut. “That means,” she explains, problem by using her own car to take ing, she went to work part-time — president of the Kansas Silver Haired “that a client receiving two baths a Nancy to grocery shop. Once Nancy and substituted full-time for other Legislature, exclaimed, “There are week will now receive a bath every two transfers to the car, Sara takes the workers at every opportunity — in towns in my county not this big!” weeks.” The impact of the cut affects wheelchair back in the house and, at the legal department at SRS where Sprinkled throughout the audience clients in many different ways. the store, brings out a motorized cart she took reports from the public on were seniors, caregivers and work- At 67, Bobbie Jean O’Neal needs for Nancy’s use while shopping. The the Fraud Hotline until she retired at ers from area agencies on aging who some of the help she has been giving to entire process takes about two hours. the age of 65. were wearing bright red T-shirts others for most of her life. “I’m losing “She got me out of the house. I just Patti Jo draws a distinction emblazoned with SENIORS COUNT my social worker. I’ve been caring for felt trapped here.” between those who have been blind on the front. On the back were the people all of my life and the services Additionally, Nancy’s rent has to since birth and those like her who words: AND WE VOTE! I need now, they are cutting. I need be paid by money order. The rent is became blind after living a sighted Over 100 people met in the lower help with my medication, cleaning due so soon after her disability check life. “I would rather be blind than level at JAAA to explain and learn and cooking.” The loss of her JAAA arrives that there is little time to mail deaf,” she says, “because I can hear how the $2.1 million cut to SCA will case manager, Theresa Foster, due to it, even if she could go to the store the birds and picture what they look impact Kansas seniors.
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