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Caregivers' Support Group

CAREGIVERS’ SUPPORT GROUP

CAREGIVERS’ SUPPORT GROUP

The BUMC Caregivers’ Support Group began in February 2007. The group shares the joys, frustrations, and fears of caring for a loved one in a supportive and non-judgmental atmosphere. The meetings open with a healing prayer. Educational materials, speakers, and other resources are made available as needed by the members. The group meets the second and fourth Thursdays of the month from 5:30pm-7pm in Room 213 in the Education Building. The facilitator is Jan Notter, one of the Parish Nurses.

Recent speakers include Allison Galway, Director of Adult Day Services at VT who spoke about dementia, Jennifer Bullock, Director of Pulaski Rehab Center, who spoke about the facility and the care provided and Kathryn Allen, Professor of Human Development at VT who discussed sibling interactions in relation to caring for our parents.

Resources include materials about the “Bible on Tape”, financial guides, medical alert systems, sitters’ lists, dementia, how to choose homecare vs. assisted living, how to do background checks, living wills/advance directives, where to buy medical equipment, special visual/hearing information, caregiver rights, the dying experience, exercise, and pertinent websites.

Library books to borrow include
Another Country (Pipher)
Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents (Berman)
Final Gifts (Callanan/Kelley)
Spiritual Care (Shelly)
The 36-Hour Day (Mace/Rabins)
Mayo Clinic on Healthy Aging (Creagan)
Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer’s Disease (Petersen)
How to Avoid Financial Tangles
Gone From My Sight
Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather’s Blessings (Remen)
Love You Forever (Munsch)
Compassionate Caregiving (Knutson)
Coach Broyles’ Playbook for Alzheimers Caregivers- Practical Tips

Future topics and speakers will include: Caring for your spouse, chronic illness, Warm Hearth, AARP Driving Program, exercise and preventing falls, how to communicate effectively with the medical system, legal issues, funeral home comparisons and buriel facts, and information about Social Services.