Extension
It Starts With Us
Nurturing Families and Healthy Aging
Healthy Communities
Broderick
Embracing Life as We Age (general)
Nurturing Parenting
Nurturing Families (general)
Healthy couple and parenting relationships and resulting family stability benefit the well-being of adults and children. Co-habiting, same-sex, divorced, widowed and single households are the new majority. Children who live absent from their biological fathers are two to three times more likely to be poor, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents. In 2013, 25 percent of Kentucky children lived in poverty, ranking Kentucky 40th in the nation. Children who live in poverty are more likely to have fewer learning disabilities and developmental delays.
People are living longer. Kentucky’s current population of seniors (65+) is 13.3%, a number that is expected to double in the next 40 years due to the aging Baby Boomers (post WWII babies born between 1946-1964). Approximately 25% of Kentucky’s population includes Boomers, who, in 2011, started turning 65. Meanwhile, babies born in Kentucky in 2011 are projected to live to be 75 years old (3 years younger than the national average). Whether it is the graying of America or extended life expectancies, aging is a lifespan process. Therefore, it is important to acknowledge and celebrate the changes that accompany aging, in regard to health, independence and life quality throughout all stages of life.
•Build personal strengths and self-control, interpersonal communication, life skills including wise decision-making.
•Embrace people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds
•Participants become volunteers to make their community a better place to live for everyone.
•Increase caregiving knowledge and quality relationships.
•Decrease in the number of falls.
•Increase in family meal time.
•Increase communication and enhance relationships and social support.
•Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships
•Individuals are engaged in community outreach activities.
•Individuals change behavior to decrease risk of falling.
•Participants commits to set family rules regarding eating together, limiting screen time, active play and exercise, set routines
•Participants gain knowledge and awareness on ways to reduce falls.
•Participants gain knowledge and awareness on age-related family issues (e.g. dementia, power of attorney, living wills, failing health, dying, loss and bereavement)
Long-term Outcome:
Indicator: Reduce the number of falls reported by 50%.
Method: Use date supplied by the safekentucky.org
Timeline: 4-6 years
Intermediate Outcome:
Indicator: Individuals change behavior to decrease risk of falling.
Method: follow up evaluations
Timeline: 6 months to a year
Initial Outcome:
Indicator: Participants gain knowledge and awareness on ways to reduce falls
Method: End of program evaluations
Timeline: 1-2 months
Audience: Families
Project or Activity: Grandlove
Content or Curriculum: Grandparents and Grandchildren Together and other UK publications, Nurturing Parenting
Inputs: Extension staff, Kentucky CES publications and resources, volunteers
Date: September 2018 - May 2019, meets bi-monthly
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Traditions
Content or Curriculum: Kentucky CES publications and resources
Inputs: Extension staff, volunteers
Date: September 2018
Audience: 65+ adults, KEHA members
Project or Activity: Matter of Balance
Content or Curriculum: Matter of Balance, UK curriculum
Inputs: Extension staff, Kentucky CES publications and resources, volunteers
Date: Spring 2019
Audience: KEHA Members
Project or Activity: Healthy Homemakers – 2-part series
Content: UK curriculum
Inputs: Extension Staff, community volunteers, health professionals and organizations
Date: August, 2018; January 2019
Author: Sherri Broderick
Major Program: Grandparents and Grandchildren Together
In 2016, the Gallatin County Family Resource center conducted a survey to teachers and found 27% of Gallatin children are being raised by someone other than their parents. Some feel the number has increased since that survey. GrandLove support group was formed. The GrandLove mission is to identify families who are raising children other than their own and offer support by providing resources developed through partnerships with concerned community members. The group was formed
