Elders
The Elders/Caregiver program provides a healthy lunch and social interaction for elders four days per week. We provide chair massage for caregivers on Friday. We have blood pressure checks and diabetes counseling through our Samish nurse every Wednesday.
Samish Elders and Caregiver Program
- Lunch/Salad Bar
- Free Blood Pressure Checks
- Beading Class
- Cribbage
- Chair Massages
We also have an elders beading group and cribbage club. We provide medical and nutritional resource and referral services. We had several clinics this year including several diabetes foot clinics, a dementia lecture, and a women’s heart health lecture.
We’d like to announce that the Longhouse has a new salad bar! We will be serving soup and salad every Tuesday starting August 17, 2010. Please remember that Samish tribal members eat free and that non-members are asked to pay $3 to help support the program. Thank you to Sue for preparing the program’s delicious meals each day, and especially now with our fresh and healthy choices! Hope to see you all come by!
Medicare Open Enrollment Information
The Open Enrollment Period for changing your Medicare coverage is from October 15, 2011 through Dec 7, 2011. This means this is the time when you can change how you receive your Medicare…with Original Medicare A and B or through a Medicare Advantage Plan. It is also when you can change the Part D (medication) coverage that you have.
If you need assistance sorting through the options available to you, you can get help from Joanne or Erin in Contract Health Services at (360) 899-5454. They have been trained by the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner to be able to offer this assistance to you. Please call for an appointment.
Links
http://www.dshs.wa.gov/default.shtm
The above link is another resource for those who may be elderly, households with children, foster care, taking care of a relative. Has information about food assistance, prescription medicine assistance and other needs.