Wednesday, January 6th, 4-5 p.m. Orientation, Central United Methodist Church Education Building.
Friday, January 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Aging in Place Successfully, Lead: Bill Vicary, Owner: Just Call Bill! Lunch Sponsor: Stewart Security. Key topics: Defining Aging in Place, Intro to solo aging, How to age successfully in place, and connecting your resources through technology.
Friday, February 12, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Downsizing Roadmap: Sort, Sell, Share and Preserve, Lead: Skye Winter, Junk King Spartanburg along with Jonathon Tinkey, Owner, Blue Moon Estate Sales and Kristina Harris, Two Tidy Tinas. Key Topics: Personal organization; what to do with your possessions, including the junk and the treasures; Estate Sales 101; and understanding what is valuable and what is not.
Friday, March 12, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Retirement Communities, Home Health Care, Non-Medical Home Care and Hospice, Lead: Heather Burton, Owner, Connections to Care Key topics: Overview of the different levels of residential care and support; Home Health Care: who provides it, what kind of services can you get and who pays what; Non-Medical Home Care and how it differs from home health care and Defining hospice, comfort care vs curative treatment care.
Friday, April 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Navigating the Maze: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, Lead: David Christopher, Lifelong Learning member along with the Appalachian Council of Governments, Social Security Administration, and the SC Department of Aging. Key Topics: Top 10 Medicare questions answered, Medicaid: what everyone should know, Social Security: Understanding the process.
Friday, May 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Navigating the healthcare system: When to go where, Lead: Teri Donahoo, Community Outreach Manager, Spartanburg Regional Hospital System. Lunch Sponsor: Spartanburg Regional Health System. Key Topics: A panel will discuss primary care, virtual care, urgent care, specialty and emergency services and various types of post-acute care.
Friday, June 11, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Physical Wellness and Alternative Healthcare, Lead: Jeanette Keepers, Lifelong Learning Member with speakers from Spartanburg County Recreation Department, Spartanburg Regional Hospital, VCOM and Sherman College. Key Topics: Panel discussion on the ways to use nutrition for healing and health and Exercise and its health benefits.
SKIP JULY
Friday, August 13, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Getting your legal papers in order for today and tomorrow, Lead: Rebecca Anderson, Ethridge Law Group. Lunch Sponsor: Ethridge Law Group. Key Topics: Securing the future for your beneficiaries (testamentary documents), Protection during your life (powers of attorney), Panel Discussion: Behind closed doors: True stories from those who see what happens next.
Friday, September 10, 10a,m.-2 p.m., Preparing for Death, Lead: Teri Morris, Advanced Planning Advisor and Certified Grief Counselor, J.F. Floyd Mortuary and Natalie Goglia, owner, funeral director, pre-need specialist, Palmetto Mortuary. Lunch Sponsor: The J.F. Floyd Mortuary. Key topics: Why have a service after someone dies?, Burial vs. Cremation, Religion and Cremation, Understanding costs, Preparing before death (advanced planning), and Grief Care.
Friday, October 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Things to do: Engage, Culture and Volunteer, Lead: Lucy Woodhouse, Director, Lifelong Learning along with Midas Hampton, Strategic Spartanburg, Beth Regula, Artists Collective, and a panel of non-profits. (2:15-3:15 p.m. Closing Celebratory Social Event.)