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<br />FOCUS: DISABLED/MODERATELY IMPAIRED
<br />OLDER ADULTS
<br />Goal F: DisabledlModerately Impaired Older Population -Maximize
<br />the safety, functional ability, and quality of life for impaired,
<br />community-dwelling older persons and their family caregivers.
<br />Objective F-1-: Increase community recognition, support, and empowerment of
<br />family caregivers.
<br />Lead Organization (s-: Dept. on Aging's Eldercare Program with Triangle J AAA
<br />and Partners listed below.
<br />Strategies:
<br />A. Develop brochures on care giving to distribute in medical settings.
<br />Partners: National Family Caregiver Support Program, OCDaA, UNC Program on
<br />Aging, Eastern NC Alzheimer's Association.
<br />B. Create a "Community Caregivers Alliance" in which caregivers can communicate
<br />with each other to share information, ideas, bartered services, social interaction, and
<br />emotional support., This group will be the voice of caregivers to county human services.
<br />Partners: Existing OCDOA support group members, OCDOA, OCDSS, OCHD,
<br />Caring Family Network, faith communities, UNC Program on Aging.
<br />C. Create a group respite program at senior centers for impaired family members who
<br />are unable to navigate the senior centers independently but are too independent to
<br />accept adult day care programs.
<br />Partners: OCDoA, OCDSS, OCHD, UNC Program on Aging, .IOCCA, Charles House
<br />D. Develop issue-specific support groups as the need is identified by caregivers.
<br />Partners: Care giving clients, physicians, and local mental health providers, OCDOA,
<br />OCDSS, OCHD, Caring Family Network (formerly OPC).
<br />E. Work with community partners to learn the cultural factors which affect care giving in
<br />minority communities.
<br />Partners: Institute on Aging, African Community Outreach Program at Duke, Eastern
<br />NC Alzheimer's Association, JOCCA, OCDOA, OCDSS, OCDH, NC Extension
<br />Services, A Helping Hand.
<br />F. Offer culturally specific classes/presentations to church pastors, informal community
<br />leaders, and church members to enable them to recognize that dementia is much
<br />more than memory lass so church members can begin to comprehend the stresses
<br />experienced by caregivers and mobilize support for them,.
<br />Partners: OCDSS, OCHD, African-American Community Outreach Program at Duke,
<br />NC Extension Services, Eastern NC Alzheimer's Association, A Helping Hand, IFC,
<br />OCIM, .I000A, local churches, primary care physicians, Piedmont Health Systems,
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