UCARE Classes Start This Week! Are You Registered?

 Did you know that more than 65 million people, 29% of the US population, provide care for a chronically ill, disabled or aged family member or friend during any given year and spend an average of 20 hours per week providing care for their loved one? With baby boomers on the rise, this number is expected to explode! Are you prepared to be a caregiver?

This will be the third round of classes I have taught and I have learned new ideas every time.  The only down side I have found is that not enough people are coming to the classes to get the information.  Please share the information with anyone you know who is caring for a loved one, because UCARE.

Mountainland Agency on Aging has partnered with the Red Cross to present a 9 week course to train and prepare caregivers.  Each week has a different focus, everything from "Community Support for Remaining at Home" to "Legal and Financial Issues".

If a loved one leans on you, lean on the UCARE Caregiver Guide Classes which provide hands-on training on a variety of topics to help you. All classes provide contact information for local services, websites, and publications that will help caregivers.



TOPICS
Week 1: Community Support for Remaining at Home; Managing Personal Assistants
Week 2: General Caregiving Skills; Healthy Eating
Week 3: Home Safety; The Accessible Home
Week 4: Positioning and Helping Your Loved One Move; Assisting with Personal Care
Week 5: Assistive Technology
Week 6: Alzheimer's & Dementia; Mental Illness
Week 7: Legal & Financial Issues
Week 8: Caring for the Caregiver
Week 9: Review

Click on the link below to register for the classes:
http://www.mountainland.org/site/articles/view/78

Participants have said the following about the UCARE classes:
“Thank you for having prepared yourselves to lift and teach us and so many others. It is a new world - this care-taking business, for so many of us. Who would have known that life just doesn't come to a rainbow end for our loved ones, but rather, we have to travel a very different road than we ever have before in order to help them finish with grace and dignity and proper care.”

“Our class instructor was great – always appreciated that she was ready to go with her lesson material and I was happy for the class discussions. The discussions helped me feel like I am not alone. I feel more empowered to be a caregiver. I loved the guest speakers they brought answers and comfort and expertise. Thank you for a great experience and for a break from the stress at home and for help with knowing how to better deal with the changes that my [loved one] is facing.”

Locations

PAYSON Thursdays, 3/29- 5/24 7:00 – 8:30 pm Parkway Health 55 S. Professional Way, Payson

American Fork Tuesdays, 3/27- 5/22 6:30 – 8:00 pm American Fork Library Gardner Community Room 64 South 100 East

PROVO/OREM Friday, 3/30- 5/25 10:00 am – 11:30 am Courtyard at Jamestown 3352 N 100 E, Provo