Jane Ferril, Dementia Care Coach, recently led four new Thrive Alliance staff members through Dementia Friends training. The new Dementia Friends are Shelbey Kramer, Amber Moore, Jeni Moffatt and Tonya Carlock.

The January edition of Caregiver Connection is at this LINK.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers is a class series that supports caregivers in taking care of yourself while caring for someone else. By taking care of your own health and well-being, you become a better caregiver.

Six classes held once a week are led by experienced class leaders. Class participants are given The Caregiver Helpbook to accompany the class and provide additional caregiver resources.

A brochure about the program can be found at this link: https://thrive-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Brochure-PTC-Caregiver-Class.pdf

If you are interested in learning more, contact Alison Simo, MSN, RN, CDCES, Wellness Education Coordinator, at 812-372-6918 Ext. 2403 or [email protected].

Happy New Year from Thrive Alliance. Our offices will be closed Monday, January 1 in observance of the Holiday.

CLICK HERE TO SEE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2023.

The show must go on

STORY BY Barney Quick| For The Republic • PHOTOS BY Carla Clark | For The Republic

After a long and successful acting career, Jill Tasker returned to her native Columbus to be with her mother, who was beginning to show signs of dementia. Bringing joy and vitality to her mother in her last years inspired Tasker to begin a project of love centered on reawakening dementia patients’ inner spark. So far, she’s enlisted a variety of people to help with this endeavor, including other talented actors and a playwright.

Read the full article below
https://therepublic-in.newsmemory.com/?publink=09b50c6c1_134ae5f

https://abc7chicago.com/covid-test-kit-luna-labs-medicare-fraud/14130697/?fbclid=IwAR2IK3W_0WgZL97xATD-DIFZnqBeIDKQ1WhXkmDLle8Tqd6hKoY3g0ccmkQ

Thrive Alliance recently received a gift of $10,000 from the Custer-Nugent Foundation in Columbus to assist in efforts to reduce food insecurity. The donation will be used to help fund Thrive Alliance’s home delivered meals programs.

Food insecurity is a challenge for many older adults with low incomes.  Nationally one in ten households are food insecure, and the rate is even higher in Southern Central Indiana. Key findings in South Central Indiana include:

• Nine percent of older adults aged 60 and older were food insecure.
• According to older adults and service providers, the chief barriers to food access and security are transportation and money.
• 10 percent of older adults live in a food desert.
• One in three older adults bypass daily medication to afford nutritional food.

In 2022 Thrive Alliance provided 12,945 meals to individuals over the age of 60 that attend our nutritional meal sites and 39,300 home deliver meals. The Older Americans funding that we receive on a year-to-year basis is decreasing and the need to provide nutritional, well-balance meals is increasing.

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