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Page 6 - Senior's Lifestyle Publication Supplement To Shelby Shopper & Info It's A Good Life – NOVEMBER 2010 Kings Mountain Patrick Center Event FLU SHOTS For older adults, the seasonal flu can be very serious, even deadly. Each year in the U.S., deaths from flu-related causes range from 3,300 to 48,600 (average of 23,600), and more than 200,000 are hos- pitalized from serious flu complications. Ninety percent of flu-related deaths and more than half of flu-related hospitalizations occur in people age 65 and older. To help you fight the flu, on Monday, November 1st, from 9:00am—12:00noon, the Senior Center, in coordination with the Cleveland County Health Department and sponsored by the Cleveland County Council on Aging/Neal Center, will give flu shots to Cleveland County seniors age 55 and older. If you have Medicare Part B, the flu shot and pneumonia shot are FREE! Without Medicare Part B, the flu shot will cost $30.00 and the pneumonia shot will cost $45.00. PLEASE BRING YOUR MEDICARE CARD WITH YOU. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A MEDICARE CARD, PLEASE BRING YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD. Remember you must be a Cleveland County Resident who is age 55 and older to receive one or both of the vaccinations at the Senior Center. You must bring your Medicare card to prove that you have Medicare Part B so that your flu shot and/or pneumonia shot will be FREE! Please call the Center if you need more information. OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD On Monday, December 6th, volunteers will go to assist with Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan’s purse which is a relief and evangelism organization led by Franklin Graham involving the distribution of shoeboxes filled with gifts and the gospel to needy children around the world. Any senior, who would like to assist in getting the shoeboxes ready for delivery at the Charlotte office at our 2:00PM appointment, may sign up at the front desk. Leaving the Center at 12:00noon, we will have lunch (on your own) on the way to the distribution center. We always have a great time and we’re helping precious children to get a special gift for Christmas. What a blessing! S.H.O.P PROGRAM For those of you who do not know about S.H.O.P., Seniors Helping Other People, it is a program to assist the Crisis Ministry in meeting the needs of people who need food/hygiene item assistance. Anyone who would like to help is asked to bring a one item per month to the Center and place it in our blue collection container in the front lobby. (PLEASE DO NOT THROW TRASH IN THE CONTAINER) Please place your items gently into the container. If you can’t help one month, that’s fine, just help when you can. At the end of the month, Senior Center staff will transport your donations to the Crisis Ministry of Kings Mountain. The item to bring in for November is Jelly to go with the Peanut Butter you brought in October. In December, let’s see if we can collect at least 50 toothbrushes. This is what you have done recently for the S.H.O.P program: 2 soups, 136 rolls of toilet tissue, 3 cake mixes, 41 tubes of toothpaste, 2 toothbrushes, 4 muffin mixes, 1 roll of paper towels, 2 bags of flour, and 1 container of wet ones. You are so amazing and generous. You will truly be blessed for your kindness to those in need. You don’t have to be a senior to help us with this project, everyone is welcome to join us in this effort. Just drop off your donations at the Center on Monday—Friday between 8:00AM—5:00PM. Thank you for helping us with S.H.O.P. so that others can be helped. Together we can make a dif- ference in this community. SENIOR CENTER AND NUTRITION SITE CLOSINGS Thursday, November 11th Wednesday, November 24th - Nutrition Site Only Closed Thursday & Friday, November 25th & 26th Wednesday & Thursday, December 22nd & 23rd - Nutrition Site Only Closed VETERANS DAY RECOGNITION The Neal Center in Shelby will host a luncheon honoring our veterans on Friday, November 12th. This Veteran’s Day Recognition is FREE to all veterans. Family members or guests may attend with the veteran for a cost of $7.50. Tickets will go on sale at the Neal Center on Monday, but you can sign-up at the Patrick Senior Center as well. The Center bus will transport any veterans, who sign- up in Kings Mountain, to Shelby. The bus will depart the Patrick Senior Center at 10:15AM. The last day to sign up is Monday, November 1st. You deserve this special recognition, so please come and enjoy yourself. Good Life It’ It’ s A s A Published Each Month By Shelby Shopper & Info Call 704-484-1047 To Place Your Ad region’s preferred choice for home medical equipment. • Oxygen and respiratory equipment • CPAP and BiPAP • Hospital beds and accessories • Lift chairs • Power wheelchairs and scooters • Diabetic shoes and supplies Healthy@Home is the November Commodity Sign-Up NOVEMBER 9, 10 & 11, 2010 9:00-12:00 & 1:00-4:00 Walk-In Or Call 704-482-3488 You must sign up to receive food in December. Pick Up Commodities December 1, 2010 FALL BACKALL BACK Daylight Savings Time 105 T.R. Harris Drive | Shelby, NC 28150 | 704-487-5225 853 S. Laurel St. | Lincolnton, NC 28092 | 704-268-3014 www.cmchealthyathome.org ends in November so don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour before you go to bed on Saturday eve- ning, November 6, 2010. Enjoy your extra hour of sleep on Sunday, Nov. 7th. VOLUNTEER NEWS We appreciate each of our volunteers who serve the Center so faithfully. Our next monthly Volunteer meeting will be on Tuesday, November 16th. In December, the Volunteer Meeting will be on Tuesday, December 21st. Remember all our meeting are at 12:15 unless otherwise stated. Did you know that our Volunteers are always giving to the community? The craft class will be making aprons embroidery for the Life Enrichment Center’s Imagine Café. The with knitting class gives prayer shawls to patients with serious illnesses. Operation Christmas Child and shoeboxes for needy seniors are two more of their giving projects. Come and learn what volunteer opportunities are available and how your skills can be used at the Center to help others. If you have never volunteered before, you may come and see what volunteering at the Center is all about. We need each of you so much to help us so that together we can make the world a better place especially in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. HEALTHY AT HOME PROGRAMS Tuesday, November 9th at 11:00 “Alzheimer’s” Tuesday, December 14th at 11:00 “COPD & CHF” SHIIP COUNSELING AT THE CENTER Open enrollment for Medicare Part D policies will again be from November 15th—December 30th. This is a good time to review your current policies’ 2011 rates and coverage to make sure you have a plan that will work best for you. SHIIP Counselors trained by the State SHIIP program are avail- able at the Center to assist you with this BY APPOINTMENT ONLY preferably on Wednesdays, but we will work with you to accommodate your schedule. If you need help with your Medicare Part D, or any other Medicare issue, SHIIP counselors are here to help you. Please call the Center for an appointment. COMMODITIES The Patrick Senior Center will again distribute U.S.D.A. Commodities (surplus foods) on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH FROM 1:00PM—2:30PM to senior adults who pre-registered in November. You must call and pre-register on Monday, November 8th, Tuesday, November 9th or Wednesday, November 10th between 9:00AM—11:00AM in order to receive the commodities. If you did not pre-register in November on the specified dates, you will not have commodities at the Senior Center to pick up! We distribute commodities four (4) times per year and you must pre-register each time that we distribute commodities if you want to receive them each time. You must pick up your com- modities by 2:30 pm on Tuesday, or they will be returned to Shelby for distribution to someone else by 3:00 p.m. No exceptions! Please make arrangements NOW and have a back-up plan should you be unable to pick-up your commodities due to illness or other problems. If you plan to let someone else pick up your commodities and did not request a permission slip, please cut out the permission slip on page 11 of this newsletter. Please fill it out, sign it and send it with the person commodities. If you do not pre-register with the picking up your Center, you can still pick up commodities at the Shelby Fair Grounds on Tuesday, November 30th beginning at 8:00AM from the Shelby Lion’s Club. Commodities are surplus foods given to states for distribution to low income folks. If you are a senior adult in Cleveland County and are low income, you may qualify to receive a bag of this food. The eligibility requirements have changed, so please call to see if you qualify during our pre-registration days each quarter. A great big “Thank You” to all our volunteers who help us with this distribution. For more information, please call Terrie Lewis, Program Coordinator at the Center. KNIFE SHARPENING Volunteer Jimmy Houser will be at the Center on Tuesday, November 9th for Knife Sharpening in the Ceramic Room. Bring any of your kitchen or utility knives that need sharpening and he will sharpen them for FREE. Thank you Jimmy for this service! WARTIME VETERANS MEETING As a wartime veteran or surviving spouse of a wartime veteran, you are entitled to certain earned VA benefits. You are invited to a special meeting sponsored by the Veterans Support Center on Tuesday, November 9th at 6:30PM at the Patrick Senior Center to learn how you may be eligible for Long Term Care Benefits to pay for Home Care, Assisted Living or Nursing Home Care. You will also find out that as a Vet, you may be eligible for up to $23,400 per year in Long Term Care Benefits from the VA to pay for Home Care, Assisted living or Nursing Home Care and other related care. You will also find out how to get the right assistance to complete those complicated VA forms at absolutely no cost to you. Seating is limited, so please call for reservations at 704-734-0447. Kings Mountain Patrick Center Events