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Announcing New Age Friendly Resource Portal
IIAC is excited to announce the launch of the Age-Friendly Pikes Peak Portal through the PPACG Area Agency on Aging. The portal is a first of its kind resource for the residents of the Pikes Peak region. Please take a moment to share this new tool with anyone you know that might benefit from it.
Follow the link to the portal below to find an extensive guide to services in the area for arts and culture, financial and legal, health and wellness, housing, leisure and recreation, government and advocacy, safety, transportation, and volunteering and employment.
Supporting Long Term Care and Thinking About our Future
COVID-19 has been particularly devastating in the long term care setting. In a virtual meeting this morning I heard heartbreaking first hand accounts from Colorado Springs nursing home residents detailing the overwhelming stress of isolation and restricted autonomy. Residents of long term care facilities are particularly susceptible to the virus, but the implementation of strict anti-COVID measures seems to cause a drastic decrease in quality of life. Residents say that they “can’t find a reason why they should continue to wake up” in what is feeling more and more like a prison for them. This sentiment is traumatic and unsettling for residents and staff alike.
While it is important to keep these vulnerable populations safe, we also need to ask what we can do as a community to support the staff and residents of these facilities. We need to ask what this means for long term care in the future, surely we can learn from this and expect more from ourselves?
What do you personally expect for yourself and your loved ones as you age? Start conversations with friends, family and community in order to make sure that your needs are met. Don’t be complacent with the systems in place, COVID-19 has shown us that we need to expect better. We need a sustainable system that is resistant to crisis while maintaining the dignity of life. Long term care shouldn’t just be a medical setting, we are more than our physiology. Medicine alone can’t meet our diversity of needs.
Older Adults at Home During the COVID19 Pandemic
#GivingTuesdayNow
#GivingTuesdayNow is a new global day of giving in response to the unprecedented need due to COVID-19. Check out our donation page here: https://www.coloradogives.org/InnovationsinAgingCollaborative/overview?fbclid=IwAR3DVFv1qXrDoMXAc9VczSSHJPeLqoFKFBSV3shRi8Kmpb3_nsDMJ7F2Z-4