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Senior Notes
Programs offer help to Alzheimer's caregivers
The Alzheimer's Association of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area is planning the first South Bay offering of its annual spring series of educational events recognizing May as National Older Americans' Month. "Empowering the Alzheimer's Community" is geared toward Bay Area families, professionals, friends and loved ones dealing with Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders.
The first program is called, Practical Skills for Caregiving: Management of Late-Stage Alzheimer's, and takes place May 13 from 9 a.m. to noon in the auditorium at Columbia Good Samaritan Hospital, 2425 Samaritan Drive at the San Jose/Los Gatos border. A registered gerontology nurse, an Alzheimer's Association social worker and a hospice spiritual care counselor will discuss the disease, verbal and non-verbal communication approaches, incontinence, skin care, nutrition and strategies for coping with the emotional stress of care-giving.
Although programs are free, pre-registration is suggested to ensure adequate space, handouts and refreshments. For information, call 800.660.1991 or visit www.alzsf.org on the Internet.
Local hospital plans for Arthritis Month events
The Northern California chapter of the Arthritis Foundation invites local senior citizens--and anyone else suffering from a form of arthritis--to attend three free events planned in conjunction with Community Hospital of Los Gatos.
On May 18 from 10 a.m. to noon, the hospital's Arthritis Center Team gives a presentation titled Arthritis Update 2000 at the hospital's Physical Performance Institute, 555 Knowles. On May 25 at the same time and place, the team presents Osteoporosis 2000 Update. On May 24, Dr. Richard Johnson gives a talk titled Cumulative Trauma at the hospital's Conference Room 1, at 815 Pollard Road. For further information about any of these programs, call 1.800.464.6240.
New Orchard Heritage Park seeks families for honor roll
After 10 years in the works, the Orchard Heritage Park Interpretive Exhibit (OHPIE) Alliance breaks ground on Santa Clara Valley's first exhibit depicting the area's agricultural history on May 13, during the third annual Orchard Heritage Blossom Faire in Sunnyvale.
The Blossom Faire runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Orchard Heritage Park at the Sunnyvale Community Center, Arboretum and Gardens. The faire is a community celebration of the fruitful portents of spring and the valley's past of more than a century of orchards, orchard industries and the people who made this their livelihood. This includes the areas of Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Campbell, Saratoga, Los Gatos and San Jose.
The ground-breaking ceremony for OHPIE's open-air, interpretive exhibit is at 11:30 a.m. Construction on the exhibit, designed to be a permanent, barn-like "living museum," begins June 1.
"I remember the planting of the orchards. In my family there were prunes, apricots, cherries, plums, the whole dessert thing. What I remember most about Santa Clara Valley's orchards was the hard work," says Burrel Leonard, who helped incorporate the city of Cupertino in the early 1950s.
OHPIE continues to encourage other orchard families to register for the Orchard Family Honor Roll, which will be on display once the exhibit is completed. At present, 325 families have registered; although the deadline for inclusion is the end of 2000, families are encouraged to register now.
The Orchard Heritage Park is at 550 E. Remington Ave. in Sunnyvale. Admission to the Blossom Faire is $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $5 for children in advance; or $30 and $25 for adults and seniors respectively, at the door. Children under three are free.
For information about the event, call 408.739.5004 or visit www.living-history.org/ohpie on the Internet. For information about the Orchard Family Honor Roll, call 408.264.6116.
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