Director's Report - October 2023

Senior Center Board of Directors Meeting

October 12, 2023

Director’s Report

Administration: Juli Moreno

Site:

• Site passed building inspection, as well as boiler/furnace annual inspection.
• Awning arrived! Installed by King Awning
• Designated as Cooling / Heating Center (at present only hours of operation)

Network:

• Worked with FRCOG to conduct a focus group in October for digital equity info to send to state.
• FRCOG to support vaccination information, sign up for clinics, establishing access for site and homebound.
• Juli is now officially on the Advisory Council for LifePath, once monthly meetings.
• Applied for digital hybrid grant, utilizing lessons learned from lack of previous digital equity grant.
• Open Air committee, Rec Committee, and some local businesses are now in network, sharing items for newsletters and postings.
• YMCA will do nutrition and fitness in Spring at Center.
• LifePath conducting a Fall Prevention series in Sept-Nov every Friday, 17+ signed up

Staffing:

• Agenda-driven weekly staff meetings occurring, meeting notes available.

Programming:

• Requested that Aerobics returned, being held Tuesday evenings at 4:30pm, numbers slowly increasing.
• Cards/Cribbage/Bridge is making a comeback!
• Walking Club starting at Cowell Gym, wellness class attendance increasing.
• Multiple learning and presentations this Fall, starting Armchair Travel with lunch, opening meals to 40 people.

Marketing:

• Posts and information sharing on social media.
• T-Shirts still available!
• Newsletter more feedback, submissions from members and requests for email version for those that live out of area
• Ad in Ashfield Film Festival program
• Sharing of events with various vendor newsletters such as Lifepath, West County Shopper

Budget:

• Caregiver and Home Repair grants renewed for coming year, $10345 in total until Sept24.
• Completed three bill runs, coding and budgeting.
• Completed three Turnover of cash and donations to Town Hall.
• Completed FRTA, RSVP, Caregiver Grant monthly reports.

Outreach: Teddy Doucette

Outreach 59 unduplicated individuals

Home Visit/transportation - 19

Risk / Counseling:

• 22 check-in calls or home visit to at risk and/or isolated seniors
• provided supportive counseling 12 times.
• provided support with Medical Management 7 times.

LifePath grant status:

• coordinated home repair or technology support for 15
• co-facilitated monthly Caregiver Support Group with 8 attending.
• co-facilitated monthly Memory Cafe with 13 attending.

Applications:

• CISA and Farm Share- 20, all done for the season.
• helped 3 with RMV issues.
• referred 2 for Home Modification Program
• assisted 3 with housing applications and/or provided necessary information about housing

SHINE:

• SHINE appointments or resolution of insurance issues for 8 (with Leanne and Teddy once monthly), open enrollment, Teddy finishing all day trainings, shadowing Leanne.

Activities: Dot Lyman (weekly counts, unless otherwise noted)

Programming Status:

Meals

• Lifepath meal inside every Thurs - average 10-12 per meal

To Go Meals

• 9/12 – baked rigatoni with ham, tomatoes, feta, Mexican corn salad, dessert – 46
• 9/26 – turkey meatball grinder, cukes & tomatoes, chips, dessert -56

Health and Clinics:

• Foot Care- 9/11 – 12 (S6, B3, A3), 9/25 – 12 (B7, S3, A2)
• Ask the Nurse – 9/26 - 14

Fitness:

• Yoga with instructor 8
• Matter of Balance workshop – series of 8, 17 attending
• Dance Aerobics exercise – 6 per session
• Healthy Bones & Balance exercise program in person, Weds at 10 in Senior Center - 10 people, 2 instructors, Thurs at 10 in Ashfield – 13 people, 2 instructors
• Tai Chi for Beginners- every Tuesday - 10
• Tai Chi for Arthritis every Thursday – 10

Social:

• BINGO every Thursday – 10-12 people each time.
• Knitting group – every Thursday 10-15 people
• Ashfield COA lunch – 9/7- 12 people.
• Men's Night – 9/13 – Silver Screen Design tour - 6

Education and Expression:

• Origami and Beyond (6-week workshop and beyond)- 10
• Sen. Learning Network – 9/5 “Manhattan Project Nat. Historic Park” – 1, 9/19 “N. Carolina Maritime Museum” – 1
• Conversation Café – 9/25 – “Elder Law” presented by Kate Downes - 38
• Veteran’s Agent here the 4^th Wed. every month – open for drop ins
• Information on Assisted Living – 5
• Senior Medicare Patrol presentation – 9/27 – 4
• Craftworks – Sept 8 – windchimes - 5
• Memoir Writing by Zoom (held every Friday) – 10 people per time.
• Novel Idea Book Club – 8-10 people
• Drumming – every Monday – 10 people

Transport- Bob Szafran