Nurturing Families and Healthy AgingPlan of Work

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Gallatin County CES

Title:
Nurturing Families and Healthy Aging
MAP:
Healthy Communities
Agents Involved:
Broderick
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Embracing Life as We Age (general)
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Mold and Moisture Module
Situation:

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.

Long-Term Outcomes:

•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.

Intermediate Outcomes:

•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.

Initial Outcomes:

•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)

Evaluation:

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


Learning Opportunities:

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





Success Stories

Grand Love Support Group

Author: Sherri Broderick

Major Program: Grandparents and Grandchildren Together

According to Childrens, Inc, Kentucky has over 100,000 children under the age of eighteen (18) living with their grandparents or other relatives.  As one of the highest rates of children in care of grandparents and other relatives over 85,000 live with their grandparents, while 21,000 live with other relatives. Kentucky continually ranks as one of the highest states of children living with grandparents or loved ones.  The number of grandparents in Gallatin County raising grandchildren

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Matter of Balance

Author: Sherri Broderick

Major Program: Embracing Life as We Age (general)

The CDC reports millions of seniors, 65 and older fall and one out of four seniors fall each year.  Many falls are not reported, therefore not tracked. The fear of falling becomes overwhelming, and causes many to reduce normal activities and exercise in return actually increases ones risk for falling.  Thirty-one participants completed a Matter of Balance 8 week series conducted at either the Gallatin County Senior Center or Carroll County Senior Center.  The goal of Matter of Bal

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