Join Barbara Price for a community conversation about aging.

This program is the first in a series of community conversations about remaining in the community as we age, and how we address the increasing needs of aging with a social care network (SCN). Social care Networks are formed to meet the needs of the community where they function, using the existing resources within the community and targeting areas for growth. This can include improving quality of life and wellbeing, access to service providers for help in home, home safety and sustaining independence. SCNs can also work on access to regional supports for food, respite care, home repairs, low-income/senior grants, transportation, housing, and aging, social, and spiritual supports. Many of these supports are already within the Greenwich community, including neighbors helping neighbors and our many existing organizations.

Some upcoming subjects for the community conversations include: 

• The Villages Model: For an annual fee, Visiting Neighbors members have access to a screened, skilled group of handy persons who provide a variety of services, including home repairs, housekeeping, lawn and gardening and shopping. 
• Advanced care plans and directives: 5 wishes, challenging conversations, Financial and Medical POA 
• Legal and financial planning: will, advanced directives, power of attorney, all the paperwork 
• Upgrades for aging at home: renovations, safety, community care supports. 
• Palliative care and hospice: How hospice helps and what they can’t do. What’s a community team? 
• Live Well Café: Ongoing gatherings for social connection, plans for emergency preparedness, mutual aid and other important issues for community resilience.  

Barbara Price, BA, BCPA , has a degree in psychology with a certificate in Psychosynthesis counselling. Her further studies include compassion in action, community palliative care, and end of life care (EOLD). She lives in Greenwich, is a hospice volunteer, and is also the primary caregiver to a disabled family member.