Additional resources, i.e., pamphlets, more in-depth contact details, program details are available
by contacting Pastor Brandi.
Community Paramedic
Adam
Gatton
Mobile
Phone -380/210-8386
Direct Dial - 614/991-6867
Email- GattonA@jacksontwp.org
The Mission of this program is to provide innovative services to connect the citizens of Jackson Twp, Grove City, and Urbancrest with high quality, comprehensive medical care through integration with existing health systems and collaboration with care resources, using a goal directed, patient centered approach.
Even if you are not part of these communities, contact Adam and he can help.
The Community Paramedic helps with:
- Basic medical evaluations and collaboration with your doctor.
- Fall prevention
- Post hospital or nursing home discharge follow-up
- Medicine reconciliation
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Amanda Bailey
- Your journey is individual. You cannot compare yourself to what someone else is doing at your age.
- You age...70% by the decisions you make and 30% by the genes.
- Daily exercise reduces health concerns by 25%.
- Let go of things that take your energy.
- Offer and receive forgiveness.
- Make connections with others.
- Take the time to read.
- Take opportunities to learn new things.
- 6 dimensions of whole person wellness: social, intellectual, spiritual, physical, emotional, vocational.
- Take the time to laugh, humor is important.
- Loneliness in retirement is a huge challenge.
- To age well, be intentional about everyday decisions.
RESOURCE: You can browse and take additional courses here: http://www.owls.coursestorm.com/
nichole amicucci
former nurse practitioner, current church administrator
Hospital Documentation
People aren’t talking about these things, and they are hard conversations to have in the moment.
Power of Attorney
- Power of attorney, someone you choose to make decisions for you when you cannot. Someone to advocate for you.
- Whoever you choose needs to know that you have chosen them. And share your desires with them.
- If you don’t have a power of attorney, Ohio has a hierarchy - working through next of kin to make decisions.
- Best practices of medicine trumps power of attorney.
- You can take documents to primary doctor and they can upload to your chart allowing hospitals to access it.
Ohio is a brain death state. If you have no brain activity, you are labeled deceased.
Answers questions as to desire for nutrition and fluids.
If you update any documents, update all of them so date is same and nothing trumps the other.
It’s ok to ask for a care conference if you desire all the doctors to communicate with one another.
- Full code. In the event that your heart stops or you stop breathing, what do you want them to do?
- DNR CCA. Treating and actively trying to prevent death but if heart or breathing stops, care stops.
- DNR CC. Don’t want to be in ICU, breathing tubes, etc. Offers comfort care only.
- Hospice - out of hospital comfort care.
Palliative care
In the hospital. Helps family understand and communicate.
ESTATE PLANNING
COLLINS & KRUSE
LIVING WILL:
- If you don’t have one, it will go through probate and through the next of kin process.
FINANCIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY (POA):
- Should be executed within last 5 years.
- Should include expanded options.
GENERAL ADVICE:
- Put beneficiary benefits on all of your accounts.
- Do not add children onto your checking accounts.
TRUSTS are important to be personalized.
VA BENEFITS - need to have served at right time, need to evaluate your health, income and assets.
Collins & Kruse - free consultations to determine your needs. Contact them here:
Collins & Kruse
614.369.8634
website HERE
evolution healthcare
TIFFANY WILT
Evolution home care
614.502.1900, x. 2004
twilt@evolutionhomecare.com
GOAL: Keep people independent as long as possible!
Hospital stays are shorter and homes need to be equipped to heal properly.
1 out of 10 falls require injury requiring healthcare attention.
Falling is the leading cause in injury death in 65 and over.
Who is at risk for falling?
- those taking multiple medications.
- Hearing changes.
- Vision issues.
- Previous falls.
- History of neuromuscular disease.
- Dizziness.
- Fear of falling.
- Poor lighting.
- Shoe choice.
- Flooring surfaces.
- Nothing to hold onto.
- bed height
- Phone/lamp at bedside
- Nightlights, flashlights, activate lights
- Keep bedspread tucked in
- rug tape
- Items you use frequently in reach
- Sit while meal prepping
- Avoid step stools/rolling chairs.
- Do not wax floors
- Install grab bars.
- Handheld shower heads
- Shower chairs
- Nonslip strips in bathroom
- Toilet lights
- Modify thresholds.
- Voice activated devices
- Remove clutter
- Avoid rocking and swiveling chairs
- by 75 half of muscle mass has disappeared
- Exercise helps reduce age related functional declines
- Never to late to start exercise
- Balance training and walking help prevents falls
Walking and exercise helps self esteem, strength, flexibility and endurance. Helps mental alertness, perception and information processing. Help coordination and balance. Helps muscle mass and bone density. Reduces stress, depression and anxiety.
You need three things for balance.
*Must have 2 of 3.
1. Vision
2. Response in ear
3. Ability to touch and feel
How to handle a fall…
- don’t panic
- Check for injuries
- Yell for help or crawl for a phone
- Get up if you can
If you can get up:
- rollover
- Crawl to a chair
- Pull yourself up
- Turn and sit
Research home care before you need it.
grove city police
Teri Ruslander,
elder services coordinator
614.277.1741
TRuslander@grovecityohio.gov
scams
Gets referrals from police reports from seniors in the community. She talks to them and offers resources and works with their kids to help them care for their parents.
Goal is to keep people at home but sometime not an option.
Seniors like independence. They don’t like someone in control of their finances. Don’t want to leave their homes.
Seniors helping seniors resource.
Guardianship. The person lacks the capacity to make decisions. Doctors make referral, courts make and evaluation.
Financial guardianship. When giving money away and won’t listen to the feedback that they are scams. Someone can help with finances only.
Evaluate power of attorneys. Put more details in them and spell out each decision. Most only talk medical.
Emails, letters, phone calls from someone you don’t know, don’t take it or delete it.
Do not click any links in texts, emails, etc.
Don’t respond to the text talking about a package. Call the post office and confirm.
Don’t call the number listed in the email, look it up and call the actual place.
Freeze credit reports. People cannot open anything in your name. Unfreeze only when needed.
If they ask for a gift card, it’s a scam.
Look carefully at emails.
Current major scams - they will identify as someone from: IRS, police officers, Amazon, grand jury, pastors, grandkids, romance.
Important to remember, you don’t think clearly when it comes to emotions.
Don’t accept friend requests from people you don’t know.
Don’t let anyone remotely take over computer.
Don’t trust caller ID.
Change phone number if necessary.
Check in on your friends.
Utilize the police department.
case management
Kristy Foster - MSN, RN
KRISTY.FOSTER419@GMAIL.COM
Medicare prescription changes
- Co insurance plan or co pay plan
- If your plan isn’t the right choice, you have until March to change.
OSHIP
- Helps guide plan choices.
- Neutral party.
Prescription assistance
- Goodrx - can use if have insurance, just not together. Gives price comparisons for your area.
- Manufacturer website
- Co-pay list
- Medicare Part D, extra help with premium, deductible, prescriptions, etc 1-800-686-1578
Utilities and Rent
- financial support:
- Salvation Army of central Ohio
- IMPACT community action - utility assistance
- Ohio department of deeoptment - HEAP, PIPP
- AEP - neighbor to neighbor
- The breathing association
- FCDJFS
- salute inc - veterans
- Operation first response - the last mission project veterans
Transportation
- senior options - in addition to transportation - meals, case managers, respite care.
- Cora plus
- Insurance
- Columbus cancer clinic - can donate medical supplies to as well
- Pink ribbon good - lots of other resources as well, like free vacuums.
- In home pcp. Replaces current doctor, they come to you.
Food
- senior options - meals on wheels and nutritional supplements. Use multiple vendors so can ask for other options if you don’t enjoy what you receive.
- Mom’s meals - insurance or 6.99 meal.
- Meals after hospital stay.
- Online options.
- Grocery delivery for fee.
- Columbus cancer clinic - nutritional supplements.
- Food stamps
- Food pantry
- LA foods - life care alliance
- Carrie’s cafe - Harmon Ave, activities as well
Durable medical equipment
- prescription from provider - maybe retrospective
- Amazon, discount drug mart, etc
- Helping hands medical equipment ministry - peace umc
- The loan closet - church of ascension
- Hilliard umc
- Community paramedic
- Columbus cancer clinic
Caregiver support
- burnout is real
- Take care of yourself - silver sneakers
- Community paramedic
- Home health aide
- Medicaid passport
- Senior options
- Private pay
- Pink ribbon good
- Cornerstone caregiving - va
- Local
- Paid to be caregiver COAAA
- APS
Advanced care
- community based palliative care - in home, telemedicine, HCPOA/living Will, goals of care, advanced care planning, hospice transition
- Geriatric clinic - 70+, falls, multiple co morbidities, behavior changes, decision making capacity evaluation, functional decline, poly pharmacy, goals of care
Next step
- in home primary care provider
- Independent living
- Assistant living
- Long term care
- Oasis
- A place for mom
- Real estate - Marshall foster - 614-561-3940
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preserving memories
Ohio Living - writing your history - a presentation on journaling to capture memories
Journaling for Mental Health
- Journaling can be a great tool to promote self reflection, emotional processing, and stress reduction
- It offers a way to process feelings, track progress, and gain insight to experiences
Goal Setting
- Journaling can be used to set personal goals, track progress, and build healthy habits.
- This can lead to a greater sense of accomplishment and motivation
- Studies have shown that writing down at least 3 things you are grateful for each day can:
- Increase happiness and life satisfaction
- Reduce stress and anxiety
- Improve mood regulation by expressing appreciation
- Helps to cultivate a more positive outlook on life
- Enhance memory and recall
- Travel journaling has numerous benefits such as:
- Preserving memories
- Provides something tangible to pass on
- Boosts memory by making stronger connections in your brain
- Helps to make recalling travel experiences easier
- Similar to scrapbooking, but much easier
- Combines photography and journaling to document people, emotions, and thoughts
- Can be a fun and engaging way to share your favorite photos
- Encourages curiosity and questioning
- Provides willingness to explore the natural world
- Deepens connection to enviornment
- Brings a better understanding of interconnectedness of living things
- Journaling for yourself can be a great tool to reflect on ones own feelings
- Journaling for others can provide a legacy that lives on
- There are many journals out there that provide prompts to write down your memories in hopes that your loved ones can enjoy for years to come
- Some companies make this easy:
- Legacy
Stories
In person interview. The interviewer will prompt and record your answers. They will create a link to share with loved ones and can customize the experience to your needs. - Remento- As seen on Shark Tank
Allows you to select your prompts. It then will record your answers and create a book with a QR code to scan for your video responses - Storyworth
Emails one weekly question for a year then turns your responses into a hardcover book
- What is your earliest childhood memory?
- What are your parents names? What were they like?
- Do you take after your dad or mom? In what ways? What personality traits or physical appearances did you inherit?
- What were your siblings names? How close in age are they? In what ways did you learn from them?
- Did you have any imaginary friends?
- What did you do for fun? Describe one of your perfect days.
- Did you have any favorite teachers?
- What was your favorite school subject?
- Did you play any sports?
- Who inspired you as a child
- How would you describe your childhood personality?
- What did you want to be when you grew up? What childhood goals did you accomplish?
- Write a letter to your childhood self. What would you want to tell that little kid?
- When did you know what profession you would go into?
- What high school did you go to?
- What were your favorite high school subjects?
- What are some of your first memories of current events? Did any of them frighten you?
- What made you feel hopeful for the future?
- Did you travel as a teen?
What were your family dynamics like? - What did you do for fun after school?
- Did you have a job? Where were some of the lessons you learned there?
- What is a trait you loved about yourself?
- Did you have a serious relationship?
- Describe an achievement, big or small, you accomplished around that time.
- Write a letter to your teenage self. What is something you wish you knew at that age?
- What was your first paying job?
- How much did it pay per hour? What it considered good pay at that time?
- Describe a typical day at work. What were the hours like?
- Who were some of your favorite coworkers and why?
- Who were some of your least favorite coworkers and why?
- How would you describe your working style?
- What trends in the workforce do you see continuing?
- How has the workforce changed since you were a young adult?
- Describe one of the most difficult seasons or experience you had on the job?
- Describe the moment, if you there was one, when you know you made it? What made you feel successful?
- Write about something you learned about disciple and work ethic.
- Write a letter to the young adult just starting out in life. What words of wisdom would you give?
How did you meet your significant other?
- What was the first thing you noticed about him/her?
- How did this person change you for the better?
- When did you know he/she was "the one"?
- What did you do for fun?
- Describe a difficult time in the relationship.
- How did you handle conflict?
- What were some of your goals as a couple?
- Did you have different parenting styles? Describe the differences.
- Describe one of your fondest memories with this person.
- Write a letter to your significant other. What are some the lessens you both learned along the way? How would you thank them for the life you shared?
- Do you know much about your family heritage? What countrys) did your family originate from?
- When was your first child born? Second? Third?
- In what ways were they different?
- Describe a day in the life during those young family years.
- What were some of your favorite family activities?
- What traditions did you create together?
- What is one of your favorite memories as a new parent?
- What did you learn about raising teenagers?
- Are you a grandparent? Great-grandparent? Describe your grandkids. In what ways do they remind you of your kids?
- Write a letter to each of your kids and/grandkids. What are some of the moments with them that you will always remember? What are some of the things you want them to always remember?
- Are there any new skills you want to learn?
- What is something new you want to try?
- Where is one place you have always wanted to go but haven't been yet?
- What are some of the things you are doing now that your future self will thank you for?
- What are some new traditions that you have enjoyed?
- What fitness goals do you have?
- What kinds of skills do you want to pass on?
- What is a topic you are interested in that you know very little about?
- Family get togethers
- Vacations
- Holiday memories
- Hobbies
- Grandparents, Siblings, Grandchildren
- One letter per month: A letter to someone you forgive, A letter to someone who influenced you, A letter to your spouse, A letter to your kids, A letter to your future self, A letter to someone you hurt, A letter to your parents, A letter to your favorite teacher, A letter to your closest friend, A letter to someone you miss, A letter to someone who changed you life, A letter to someone you are proud of.
- Gratitude Journal
- Bible Journaling
- Journaling about your Spiritual journey
