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NONPROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE PAID Vincennes, IN Area 13 Agency On Aging & Disability Permit #85 Volume 49 • P.O. Box 314 • Vincennes, IN 47591 MEMORIAL HOME CARE has been named a 2014 HHCAHPS Honors Elite recipient, a prestigious award recognizing home health agencies that continuously provide quality care as measured from the patient’s point of view. Memorial Home Care is the only home care agency in Indiana to receive the 2014 Honors Elite designation! For more information about the services provided by Memorial Home Care, please call (812) 996-8400. INSIDE THIS ISSUE First Lady of Grouseland Help for Family Caregivers Caring People Make the Difference When you walk into an American Senior Communities facility, the difference is clear: there is a passion our people bring to their work that you simply won’t find in any other senior health- care community. Moving Forward Rehabilitation With a full range of physical, occupational and speech therapy programs, the goal of Moving Forward is to help you return home safely with the skills you need to live life on your own terms. Our therapists are trained and committed to each resident’s success! Auguste’s Cottage Memory Care Auguste’s Cottage is a structured, research-based program for those with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias. We care for our residents by making them feel at home rather than in an institutional setting. Excellent healthcare is always provided, but quality of life is our primary focus. Other services include: UÊSkilled Nursing Services UÊLong-term Care UÊHospice Care UÊRespite ASCSeniorCare.com WHO WE Generations is your Area Agency on Aging connecting individuals and caregivers to community resources and options for long-term care and in-home services. We offer people choices as ARE they age to live a better life with independence and dignity. Generations works with community partners and • AngelWorx volunteer program contracted providers to offer services to our cli- • Knox County RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer ents in Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Martin & Program) Volume 49 Area 13 Agency On Aging & Disability WHAT Pike Counties. We offer: • Pre-Admission Screening for nursing home Winter 2014 Generations, affiliated with Vincennes University, is a not-for-profit agency which serves older adults and disabled individuals of all ages, in the counties of Daviess, • Aging and Disability Resource Center placement Dubois, Greene, Knox, Martin and Pike, without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, and/or sexual orientation by providing resources that foster personal independence while assuring individual dignity and an enhanced quality of life. WE • Meals on Wheels • Health & Wellness Programs • Case Management • Generations Magazine OFFER • Caregiver Services • Contracted providers allow us to offer trans- TABLE OF CONTENTS • Ombudsman Services portation, adult day services and legal assis- • Care Transitions tance. ARTICLES OF INTEREST 12 Grouseland's First Lady MEDICAL SERVICES: 21 Economics Make a Case for Universal Design ADVERTISER INDEX: Good Samaritan Hospital - Inside Front Cover Vincennes Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic, Inc. ADULT DAY SERVICES: Quest Orthopedics Senior & Family Services - Page 10 HEALTH Hometown Hearing - Page 6 YMCA Bettye J. McCormick Senior Center - Page 6 6 Robin Williams: Raising Awareness About Depression NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTERS: ASSISTED LIVING: Amber Manor - Page 8 15 Preventing Influenza in Older Adults and Their Caregivers Amber Manor - Page 8 BridgePointe Health Campus - Page 8 BridgePointe Health Campus - Page 8 Brookside Village - Page 6 Brookside Village - Page 6 Eastgate Manor - Page 7 Colonial Assisted Living Community - Page 4 CAREGIVING Freelandville Community Home - Page 18 Parkview Village - Page 16 GentleCare of Vincennes - Page 3 3 Getting Your Life Back: A Mindful Approach to Your Caregiving Journey Scenic Hills Care Center - Page 8 Glenburn Home - Page 10 St. Charles Health Campus - Page 8 5 November is National Family Caregivers Month Golden Living Center - Page 18 CELLULAR AND HOME PHONE SERVICE: Good Samaritan Home & Rehab Center - Inside Back Cover 11 Help for Family Caregivers The Gooch - Page 9 Lodge of the Wabash - Page 18 16 Caregivers Need Care, Too Lyons Health & Living Center - Page 6 CUSTOM FOOTWEAR: 20 If I Knew Then What I Know Now About Caregiving Grundman's - Page 7 Oak Village - Page 7 Prairie Village - Page 18 HOME CARE SERVICES: Scenic Hills Care Center - Page 8 Adaptive Nursing & Healthcare Services - Page 15 GENERATIONS St. Charles Health Campus - Page 8 Caregiver Homes - Page 18 The Timbers of Jasper - Inside Back Cover 2 Letter from Generations' Executive Director Good Samaritan Home Care Services - Page 7 Willow Manor - Page 9 Guardian Angel Home Health Care - Page 3 14 Generations FY2013-2014 Annual Report HLS Health+Wellness - Page 11 PHARMACY: HomeInstead Senior Care - Page 11 Williams Bros. Health Care Pharmacy - Page 10 Generations Magazine is published by Vincennes University’s Community Services/GENERATIONS. Living Well Home Care - Page 17 Unauthorized reproduction in any manner is strictly prohibited. SENIOR CENTERS: Generations Magazine is published three times a year for older adults in Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Martin and Pike counties. Memorial Home Care - Back Cover Senior & Family Services - Page 10 Please send all communications to: GENERATIONS, c/o Jane Hall, P.O. Box 314, Vincennes, IN 47591 or [email protected]. Senior & Family Services - Page 10 YMCA Bettye J. McCormick Senior Center - Page 6 To report a change of address or to be removed from our magazine mailing list, call 1-800-742-9002 or email [email protected]. Williams Bros. Health Care Pharmacy - Page 10 Printed by Ewing Printing • www.ewingprinting.com • Vincennes, IN TRANSPORTATION: HOSPITALS: Senior & Family Services - Page 10 About the Cover: Good Samaritan Hospital - Inside Front Cover YMCA Bettye J. McCormick Senior Center - Page 6 Memorial Hospital & Health Care Center - Back Cover Special thanks to Bartholomew Wedding Photography for the beautiful cover photo of VISION Grouseland, the William Henry Harrison Mansion in Vincennes. For more information about MEDIA: The Original Company - Page 23 Eye Can See - Page 10 Anna Harrison, Grouseland's First Lady, and Christmas at Grouseland, see Pages 12 and 19. 24 For more information, visit our website at www.generationsnetwork.org For more information, call Generations at 1-800-742-9002 1 Laura's Letter Letter from Generations' Executive Director Continued fom Page 2 I am not sure what he was afaid of or why he didn’t ask us for help. Dear Friends – Family was ver imporant could visit with him. Even as sick as she was, she wanted to put on lip- I just know that he protected her to the ver end of his life. And maybe This issue of our magazine is dedicated to family caregivers – the to Grandpa. He was an only stick and have her hair fixed. She wanted to make sure she looked OK he was protecting us as well. As long as we didn’t know how advanced millions of people who give tirelessly of themselves ever day to care for child and he had lost his own because she didn’t want him to wor about her. “He will be so woried her Alzheimer’s was he could pretend everhing was noral. their loved ones. dad when he was only 15. He if he sees me like this,” she’d say. Afer 64 years of mariage she still My gandparents gave us many gifs during their lifetime, but the My own exerience with caregiving was in suppor of my mom and wanted his own family to be cared about how she looked for him. I felt my hear break as I watched most imporant was respect for our family. They taught us love and aunts as they were caregivers to my gandparents. While I assisted close and make up for the what I knew would be their final time together, but I also felt an incredi- respect by the way they loved and respected each other. Their love for when called upon, the needs of my gandparents fell primarily on Mom family life he did not have ble stengh fom the love in the room that surounded my family. each other was more than just te love – it was everlasting love – a and Aunt Becky. So rather than share that exerience with you, I when he was younger. If he Afer Grandpa died, it took us only a few days to realize how far love that I will always car in my hear as I share it with my family. thought I would share a love stor with you – a love stor that became could help it he would never Grandma’s Alzheimer’s had progessed. We realized that Grandpa had My fiends, I am sure many of you have a similar stor to tell. If you a stor of caregiving. work on Sundays. Grandma Laura A. Holscher been protecting her and us fom the severit of her illness. To the ver would like to share your stor, I would love to hear it. (lholscher@vinu. I have always thought that te love is one of those exeriences that would f chicken and then the family would take a day tip. This end his concer was for her. Exactly a month afer his death Grandma edu) To all of you who have been caregivers or are caregivers right now, you are never 100% sure of for yourself, but you sure know it when you Sunday family dinner tadition continues today. We had Sunday din- woke up and said Grandpa had been calling to her and she was going thank you. I have the upmost respect and admiration for you. see it in someone else. Love does not necessarily always present itself in ner at my gandparents’ house until Grandma was no longer able to to be with him that day.