HARRISBURG â The Pennsylvania Department of Aging (PDA) has joined with Slippery Rock University (SRU) to launch a pilot program to offer students in recreational therapy and behavioral sciences programs real world experience by completing service-learning projects that included interactions with older adults.
The Butler and Mercer County Area Agencies on Aging connected more than 100 seniors with PDA, who coordinated with the university to launch the program during SRUâs 2020 fall semester. The program will continue in the universityâs spring semester.
During the pilot program, students from the Recreational Therapy for Older Adults and Aging and the Older Person classes engaged with seniors typically twice a week either over the phone or virtually if the senior had access to videoconferencing technology. The students earned service-learning hours, gained skills in virtual assessment and implementing interventions while participating in a variety of activities with
ALPENA, Mich. – The finance committee of the Alpena County Board of Commissioners met early Wednesday via zoom where they voted to approve a transfer of funds that will help the seniors of Alpena.
The committee discussed moving forward with plans to transfer eight thousand dollars of the Older Persons Millage funds to the Senior Center from general funding to Meals on Wheels.
The funds will help the Senior Center purchase a new all wheel drive vehicle for the program. the Chairman of the Older Persons Committee discussed why it was so important.
“They’ll just concentrate on using that one all wheel drive vehicle on county roads during snowy conditions or icy conditions like has been fore mentioned,” said Older Person’s Chairman Craig Zelazny.
retirement savings
A Fin24 reader writing on behalf of his sister wants to know what the best investment option will be to ensure a R8k payment per month from her R400k in savings.
He writes:
My sister will be retiring come end of January 2021. She currently has 400K that will be available to her (subject to market fluctuation at actual retirement date). Her living cost is 8K per month after taxes.
There is no other income, what investment can be looked at earn the desired monthly income if possible, and to have the capital safeguarded, during retirement?
Hester van der Merwe, financial advisor at Ultima Financial Planners, and financial planner of the year 2020 responds:
IT may have been around for three decades, but telecare – helping unwell, disabled or elderly people to live independently by delivering care using remote monitoring and emergency alarms – has not kept up with the times and is still “very reactive”, according to experts. David Brown, who leads the analogue to digital programme for the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government, said the decommissioning of the old analogue communications infrastructure and its replacement with a digital set-up could make all the difference to the service. “That programme of work doesn’t have a significant impact on standard telephony users, but for telecare users, for telecare services, it does,” he told an online discussion.