Our Times Defiance County Senior Services 419-782-3233 December 2020 https://www.defiance-county.com/senior-services Email: [email protected]
The Managers and Staff of Defiance County Senior Services wish you and your family Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Amy Sheri Dennis Robin Dawn Penny Ginny Linda
Sue Ray Ed Marcia Rhetta Barb Jamie Mary Lori Bob Doug Tom John Jennifer Stacey and Sandy
Thank you! It is with very gracious hearts that we say Thank you!! For supporting the Defiance County Senior Services levy. Home Delivered Meals REMINDER: YOU MUST BE HOME AT TIME OF DELIVERY. Congregate Participants Area Office Rules require you to be home for delivery, Join us for Grab and Go Meals and you MUST call if you will not be home the day EVERY DAY Monday through Friday before delivery or no later than 7 am the day of delivery (if you have forgotten to call) Pick up 11:30 am-Noon We provide nutritious meals, meeting all requirements Reservation Required of the Area Office on Aging home delivered meal Call Dawn @ program but, due to supply shortages you may see substitutions. Thank you for your patience and 419-782-3233 by Noon the day before. understanding during this trying time! You may reserve for the entire week by NON CONTACT Delivery has been implemented for calling by Noon on Friday of the week prior your safety and the safety of our drivers. PLEASE continue to follow these rules so we may continue to Area Office On Aging rules REQUIRE serve you. This is for your protection and the EVERYONE for whom a meal is being protection of our drivers. picked up MUST BE PRESENT! If you have questions or concerns, please contact: We hope you are enjoying them. We love seeing you in person!! Ginny Wiseman at 419-782-3321
Commodity Supplemental Food Program— Senior Food Boxes December 23rd The food box pick up this month will be from 1-2:30 in Defiance and 12:30-2 in Hicksville Please come to the east end of the Defiance Center or the parking lot at the Hicksville location for your food box. There is an application to apply for this food box which includes: fruits, grains, vegetables, dairy and protein. Questions?? Please contact Sue Weller @ 419-782-3233. Reminder: No PETS in your car at pickup
The registration for the 2021 Winter Crisis Program has started. The Northwestern Ohio Community Action Commission may provide a one time payment toward a utility bill or bulk service (propane, fuel oil, wood or coal) Household income of 175% of the poverty level. Please contact NOCAC at: 419-219-4641 or www.nocac.org to set up an appointment You must provide proof of income for all people who are living in the home, copy of electric and gas bills, proof of disability ( if applicable) Social Security Cards for all members of the household, health insurance premium paid and child support paid. If you or a household member has Covid 19 no disconnect order is needed! Caregivers Caregivers are an important part in every senior’s life. Whether you just stop in or call for a chat, purchase Please follow us on Facebook. groceries, pick up prescriptions, cut the grass, take out the garbage, or live in the home 24/7 to care for your loved one, you are all caregivers. If you need something that you are not seeing in print, give us a call. Sheri in Defiance (419.782.3233) and Search: Defiance County Senior Linda in Hicksville (419.542.5004) can guide you through Services to find our page. some of the critical areas in caring for your senior and making life a bit easier for yourself. Watch for updates to our current newsletters, monthly menu and A huge thank you goes out to all of the caregivers, more! families and friends who have stepped up during the Note: if you search Defiance pandemic! It’s given the DCSS staff peace of mind to County Senior Center you will not know that the needs of our clients are being met. find us! Ask your family to follow us on Have you called a senior today? They love to chat! Facebook also!!
Each participant may determine what they Alzheimer’s Association Virtual Education Opportunities can comfortably Call 1-800-272-3900 to register for any of the classes below: contribute toward the 10 Warning Signs of Dementia: 12/3,14 & 22 cost of a meal. Effective Communication 12/8.15 & 29 No senior adult will be Dementia Conversations 12/16 denied a nutrition Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia 12/7 &17 service due to inability Healthy Living for Brain and Body 12/4 to contribute. Legal and Financial Planning for Alzheimer’s Disease (2 part series) 1/2 & 4 Our suggested Defiance County Senior Services offers a support group for caregivers on donation for a lunch the first Thursday each month. is $3.00 per meal. Our building remains closed Meal Deal coupons All support group meetings will be via zoom meetings, to register please Are available from contact: your home delivered Linda Rae Pollitz, Program Manager Alzheimer's Association Northwest meal driver or Robin. Ohio Chapter For a $50 donation you 419-419-5858 receive 20 coupons Or lowering your cost to Dawn Ludwig 419-782-3257 $2.50 per meal. BAD WEATHER TRANSPORTATION POLICY
Hopefully, Northwest Ohio will have a mild winter! However, knowing the area of the country we live in, we won’t likely see a winter with no snow or ice. In the event transportation is cancelled due to weather, you will receive a phone call from a member of our team. It would be a good idea before you have an urgent need to line up someone to clear your walks and plow your driveway if you are unable to do the work yourself. If we are unable to safely enter your drive or use the sidewalk to your door, transportation may be cancelled. If you have questions about the weather or wish to reschedule an appointment due to weather conditions, please call Dennis in Defiance at 419.782.3233 or Linda in Hicksville at 419.542.5004. Reminder, if you are currently served by the home delivered meal program and we are not able to deliver, you will receive a phone call in advance of your usual drop off time. If we don’t receive an answer, we will ask you to call us back or we may make call your emergency contact. Again, we ask you to make arrangements for your driveway and sidewalk to be cleared for the safety of the drivers. Please know that we make every effort to arrange alternate transportation for those clients receiving chemotherapy and dialysis treatments. Be safe and be smart about the weather!
BE POLITE BUT ASK THAT EVERYONE WEAR A MASK WHO IS IN CONTACT WITH YOU. Do you have home health aides, delivery persons, family members, etc. coming to your home? It’s a good idea to politely ask everyone to wear a mask, sanitize their hands, and keep a six foot distance from you. Public health experts say masks, in particular, are key to reducing the spread of COVID-19 and the flu virus. If you do find yourself interacting with someone who is not wearing a mask, don’t put them on the defensive. You might want to say something like, “For your safety and mine, I would feel much more comfortable if we were both wearing masks.” The Worth of Seniors A letter to my best friend, Remember old folks are worth a fortune with silver in their hair, gold in their teeth, stones in their kidneys, lead in their feet and gas in their stomachs. I have become a little older since the last time I saw you and a few changes have come into my life. Frankly, I have become a frivolous old gal. I am seeing 5 gentleman every day! As soon as I wake up, Will Power helps me get out of bed. Then I go see John. Next Charlie Horse comes along and when he is here, he takes a lot of my time and attention. When he leaves, Arthur Ritis shows up and stays the rest of the day. He does not like to stay in one place very long, so he takes me from joint to joint. After such a busy day, I’m really tired and glad to go to bed with Ben Guay. What a life! Oh yes, I am flirting with Al Zymer. P.S. The preacher came to call the other day. He said, that at my age I should be thinking of the hereafter. I told him, “I do, all of the time.” No matter where I a m, in the parlor, upstairs, in the kitchen or down in the basement, I ask myself ~ ~ ~ “Now, what am I here after?”
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Ideas for holiday gift giving for YOUR senior
Don’t know what put under the tree for your senior for the holidays or birthday? Here are some simple, appreciated ideas that are true winners: Create a “job or wish jar”. Weekly pick Let the senior pick a job to make their life a little easier and perhaps less worrisome. Items could include lawn work, housekeeping and laundry, cleaning the gutters, auto maintenance and cleaning, clearing out unwanted items for donation, decorating for the holidays, snow and ice removal, commodity pick-up or grocery shopping, prescription pick-up, picking up a take-out meal or cooking a meal at home, going for a ride in the county, organizing a closet or pantry.
Not only will your senior appreciate the help but their primary caregiver could likely use a hand as well. These tasks are simple for most of us and don’t involve a lot, if any, money. If you would like to give a gift, here are some other suggestions to consider: Winter sweater or bathrobe. (Everyone needs a replacement from time to time); Gift cards for grocery ordering online; Gift cards for prescription copays or over the counter medications; Insulated water bottle or a case of bottled water – whatever option is best for your loved one; Subscription to favorite newspaper or magazine; Cell or cable TV paid for year; New or updated family pictures; Create a “goodie” basket with your senior’s favorite diet-friendly snacks or non-perishable food items; Donate money to a favorite charity or make a donation for your loved ones home-delivered meals. Name ______Phone ______
Christmas Word Scramble
1. Groceos ______2. Naclorig ______3. Rats ______4. Scunttshe ______Complete word scramble 5. Porduhl ______Send to Dawn 140 E Broadway Ave. 6. Naast ______Defiance OH 7. Skagceap ______43512 to be entered into 8. Dressephh ______prize drawing for 1.Tumbler set 9. Gramen ______2. Two meal tickets 10. Galen ______3.Candy Bar Return form by 11. Limesotte ______December 21st. 12. Vaniyitt ______13. Gotscink ______14. Virasou ______15. Traweh ______16. Gisehl ______17. Wamsonn ______18. Ejuss ______Name______Phone______
Read the Christmas
Story
Hang your Stocking Eat a Candy Cane
Decorate Christmas Complete the Make Paper FREE Cookies word scramble in Snowflakes SPACE the newsletter and send it in for prize drawing
Bake your favorite Look at photos from Christmas cookie or Wear your JOIN US FOR A Christmas Past candy mask when GRAB AND GO visiting with LUNCH family or friends
Sing your favorite Pay it Forward CUDDLE UP WITH Wear your Ugly Carol to a friend A WARM BLANKET Christmas Sweater AND TAKE A NAP
Complete the Bingo Card with 2 Bingo’s in any direction Once it is completed, mail it to Dawn Knox to be included in a drawing for: $25 Meijer gift card Return by December 21, 2020 Drawing December 22 at 8am Dawn Knox 140 E Broadway Ave Defiance OH 43512 How Well Do You Know Your Christmas Carols? Match the title with the lines from the song.
1. Good tidings we bring to you and your kin
_O Little Town of Bethlehem 2. Long lay the world in sin and error pining
What Child Is This? 3. Please have snow and mistletoe and presents on the tree Love Came Down at Christmas 4. Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day
Go, Tell It on the Mountain 5. From angels bending near the earth to touch their harps of gold Jolly Old Saint Nicholas 6. Haste, haste to bring Him laud, the babe, the Son of Mary
We Wish You a Merry Christmas 7. The ox and lamb kept time
Of the Father’s Love Begotten 8. Westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to thy perfect light Carol of the Bells 9. Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 10. The world, they treat you mean, they treat me mean, too Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella 11. And the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains Pat-a-Pan 12. On December five and twenty Sweet Little Jesus Boy 13. From the eastern kingdoms come the wise men far O Holy Night 14. Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light Silver Bells 15. Children laughing, people passing, greeting smile after smile It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 16. The blind will see, the lame will walk, the dead will rise again Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 17. O’er the fields we go, laughing all the way I’ll Be Home for Christmas 18. Star and angels gave the sign Away in the Manger Sing We Now of Christmas 19. Peace on Earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled Angels, We Have Heard on High 20. Treetops glisten & children listen to hear sleighbells in the snow
Silent Night 21. Lean your ear this way Mary, Did You Know? 22. The men of olden days gave the King of Kings their praise We Three Kings 23. Behold, throughout the heavens, there shone a holy light
O Come All Ye Faithful 24. He is Alpha & Omega, He the source, the ending He
Joy to the World 25. 0 Let Earth receive her King! Let every heart prepare Him room Little Drummer Boy 26. The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes
The Holly and the Ivy 27. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child Fum, Fum, Fum 28. Beautiful is the mother! Hush! Hush! Beautiful is her Child! Jingle Bells 29. One seems to hear words of good cheer from everywhere White Christmas 30. The playing of the merry organ, sweet singing in the choir Solution to Fall Word Scramble
Defiance County Senior Services wishes you and yours peace and joy throughout this Hayride holiday season and Sunflower through the coming Squirrel year! Merry Christmas Leaves We are closed Rake December 24 @ noon Cider December 25th Autumn Happy New Year Apple We are closed December 31st at noon September January 1,2021 Pumpkin Acorn
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Who loves Jigsaw Puzzles? If you raised your hand we’ve go a deal for you! Just let Dawn know and we will let you borrow from our supply of jigsaw puzzles. You can pick them up at the door or grab and go. (wear a mask and we will greet you if you call ahead)
Q: Where do snowmen go dancing? A: A Snowball Q: What do snowmen eat for breakfast? A: Frosted Flakes Q: Where does a snowman keep his money? A: In a snowbank! Q: What do road crews use at the North Pole? A: Snow cones! Q: What happens if you eat Christmas decorations? A: You get tinselitus! Q: What do you call Santa when he stops moving? A: Santa Pause
Hey Readers! Would you like to borrow books from the Defiance County Senior Services Library? Let us know who your favorite authors are or what types of books you enjoy. We will pick some out for you. You can pick them up (please call ahead so we can meet you at the door-wear your mask) We can hand them to you at Grab and Go or you home delivered meal driver will bring them to you! Call 419-782-3233 ask for Dawn Email us at [email protected] Reading is very, very good for you. Research shows that regular reading: Improves brain connectivity Increases your vocabulary and comprehension Empowers you to empathize with other people Aids in sleep readiness Reduces stress Lowers blood pressure and heart rate Fights depression Prevents cognitive decline as you age Contributes to a longer life https://www.healthline.com/health/benefits-of-reading-books
Defiance County Senior Services 419-782-3233 Amy Francis, Executive Director 419-782-3232 Robin Murray, Operations Manager 419-783-4850 Dennis Vajen, Transportation Manager 419-782-3233 Sheri Schliesser, RN Staff Nurse 419-783-4812 Ginny Wiseman, Nutrition Manager 419-782-3257 Dawn Knox, Activities Manager 419-782-3233 Penny Cryer, Maintenance Manager Linda McMahon, Hicksville Satellite Site Manager 419-542-5004 Kitchen Staff– Barb Davis, cook; Mary Mansfield, cook; Jamie Blank, cook; Lori Linebrink, dishwasher Transportation Staff-Ray Rangel, driver; Ed Porter, driver; Marcia Berry, driver; Rhetta LaFountain Home Delivered Meal Staff– Tom Sheets, driver; John Sheets, driver; Doug Tadsen, driver; Stacey Schlosser, driver; Sandy Kaufman, driver; Bob Federinko, driver; Jennifer Lero, substitute driver Sue Weller, Nutrition Assessor and CSFP Coordinator Defiance County Senior Services programs are funded by: Defiance County Senior Services Tax Levy; The Defiance County Commissioners; The Area Office on Aging of N.W.O.; Defiance County Senior Services Auxiliary and YOUR Generous Donations