Melissa Dever: November is National Family Caregiver Month - The Tribune | The Tribune - Ironton Tribune

I emotion handwritten letters. They overgarment a representation of the writer and the recipient.

While emails and texts are businesslike and fast, they cannot comparison to seeing the unsocial handwriting of a person oregon household subordinate connected paper.

It’s hard to judge that determination was a clip when, to explicit ourselves to different who lived a region distant (and to support the telephone measure low), we would person to intentionally beryllium inactive capable to stitchery our thoughts and enactment them connected paper.

National Family Caregiver Month is celebrated each twelvemonth successful November and is simply a clip to admit and grant household caregivers crossed the country.  It offers an accidental to rise consciousness of caregiving issues, amended communities, and summation enactment for caregivers.

The Area Agency connected Aging District 7 (AAA7) provides assistance to caregivers done the Caregiver Support Program, which is designed to assistance caregivers with uncovering answers astir however their caregiving relation impacts their beingness and wherever to find resources and services to decrease  caregiver stress. 

Caregivers whitethorn beryllium caring for an older adult, their big kid with a disability, oregon the caregiver whitethorn beryllium a grandparent caring for their grandchildren oregon non-relative child.  Services see assessments, training, accusation and assistance, supplemental services, respite, arsenic good arsenic counseling.

This year, our Agency began a concern with Trualta, an online level for household caregivers that provides acquisition done a person’s machine oregon mobile device. Modules connected the Trualta level thatch caregivers however to safely supply hands-on care, link families with reliable enactment agencies, and connection accusation and video grooming from experienced professionals successful a speedy and casual format. 

Some of the enactment featured connected the Trualta level covers topics specified arsenic idiosyncratic care, information and wounded prevention, caring for a idiosyncratic with dementia, caregiver wellness, grandparents raising grandchildren, encephalon health, and euphony therapy. Lessons are disposable online done video, audio, printable pages, extremity sheets, and interactive e-learning.

To sign-up for the escaped assistance, log connected to aaa7.trulata.com oregon entree the AAA7’s website astatine www.aaa7.org and click connected the “Trualta” advertisement connected the main page.  For much information, interaction the AAA7 Caregiver Support Program astatine 1-800-582-7277 oregon email caregiver@aaa7.org.

The AAA7 would similar to convey each household caregivers for the selfless acts you bash each day.  We promote you to marque caregiving for yourself a precedence arsenic a caregiver. If we tin connection assistance and assistance for you oregon your loved one, delight scope retired to us.

Melissa Dever is the caller enforcement manager for Area Agency connected Aging District 7.