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High Country Elder
Care program
awarded grant
money
In June, High Country Elder
Care was awarded 2 grants equal-
ing $10,000. The first grant for
$5000 was given by the
Alzheimer's State Check Off
Committee.
This money will be used to pro-
vide scholarship money for those
people who suffer from
Alzheimer's or dementia and can-
not afford the cost to attend the
senior social day program.
It will help reimburse us for
the full amount so we can con-
tinue to offer our service. We have
room for more participants.
The second grant was award-
ed by IDA-ORE, Idaho Planning
and Development also equaling
$5000. This will be used to help
with program expenses.
The High Country Elder Care
Program is a non-profit Senior
Social Day Program. Our goal is
to keep the senior active and in
the mainstream of life by rekin-
dling old interests and develop-
ing new ones.
Clients participate in regular
activities such as stretch and tone
exercise classes.
Arts and Crafts, games, group
discussions and outings. The pro-
gram is designed to meet the needs
of each individual with supervi-
sion by our caring, professional
staff. Our hours are 9 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday through Friday,
with transportation available.
We are in need of donations so
we can continue to offer our ser-
vices to all despite their ability to
pay.
We are also looking for vol-
unteers who might like to teach: a
craft, play music, help with an out-
ing, or just help out at the pro-
gram. Our program is unique to
the State of Idaho and we hope to
;see it grow and become an inte-
gral part of the care system in car-
ing for our seniors.
For more information call Tracy
or Caroline at the McCall Senior
Center (208) 634-5408.
High Country Elder Care gets $10,000
in grants
High Country Elder Care in
McCall has been awarded two grants
totaling $10,000.
The first grant for $5,000 was given
by The Alzheimer's State Check Off
Committee. The money will be used
to provide scholarship money for
people who suffer from Alzheimer's
Disease or dementia and cannot af-
ford the cost to attend the senior social
day program.
"It will help reimburse us for the
full amount so we can continue to
offer our service," Elder Care coordi-
nator Caroline Valle said. "We have
room for more participants."
The second grant was awarded by
IDA-ORE, Idaho Planning and De-
velopment also equaling $5,000. This
will be used to help with program
expenses
The High Country Elder Care Pro-
gram is a non-profit Senior Social
Day Program that operates at the
McCall Senior Citizen Center.
The programs goal is to keep the
senior active and in the mainstream of
life by rekindling old interests and
developing new ones. Clients partici-
pate in regular activities such as stretch
and tone exercise classes, arts and
crafts, games, group discussions and
outings.
The program is designed to meet
the needs of each individual with su-
pervision by a caring, professional
staff. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, with trans-
portation available.
Donations are needed in order to
continue to offer services to all de-
spite their ability to pay. The program
also is looking for volunteers who
might like to teach a craft, play music,
help with an outing, or just help out at
the program.
"Our program is unique to the State
of Idaho and we hope to see it grow
and become an integral part of the
care system in caring for our senior,"
Valley said.
For information, call 634-5408.
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Valle leaves Elder Care
Caroline Valle, left, who is step-
ping down as director of High Coun-
try Elder Care, receives a plaque
and praise Monday from Tracy
Moudy during a presentation at
the McCall Senior Citizens Center.
Valle, who helped set up the pro-
gram two years ago, is turning over
the director's position to Moudy,
Photo by Tom Grote
who has served as assistant direc-
tor. The elder care program pro-
vides activities for shut-in senior
citizens in an attempt to cut down
on the need for institutional care.
Activities are offered from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. Monday through Friday at
the senior center. For information,
call 634-5408.
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Photo by Roger Phillips
Elder care receives money from church
Tracy Moudy, front Left, of the High Country Elder
Care, receives a check for $640 from Caroline Valle
on behalf of the Outreach Program at St. Andrew's
Episcopal Church in McCall. The money was given
by the church in recognition of Valle, a church mem-
ber and founder of the elder care program. The
money will be used for a scholarship program to allow
low-income senior citizens to be able to take part in the
senior day care, which is offered at the McCall Senior
Citizen Center. Also pictured, seated, are Ray Lappin,
Bertha McClellan and Marie Bennett, who take part in
the elder care program. For information, call 634-5408.
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High Country Elder
Care gives senior
citizens in area a day
care strictly for grown
ups.
BY SHARI HAMBLETON
The Star -News
"Be brave Bertha. Fill those
petals in."
Jane Tilton encourages se-
niors gathered at the McCall
Senior Citizen Center during
an afternoon art lesson.
"We're just looking at pure
color here," Tilton said, lean-
ing over one woman' s creation.
Brush strokes are slow —
sometimes excruciatingly slow
while bright strokes of yellow
and red form flowers.
Tracy Moudy Baker's bub-
bly giggle.dances through the
room with classical music play-
ing gently in the background.
Baker carries on a conversa-
tion with other afternoon artists
sitting on each side of her. Both
have come to participate
in the activity sponsored by the High Country
Elder Care program.
"People confuse us all the time with the Payette
Lakes Care Center," said Baker, director of High
Country Elder Care. "They have their place and
we have ours. We're trying to help people here
who aren't at the (residential) care center level
yet."
High Country Elder Care is an adult day care
program which provides supervised activities
and a healthy hot meal for senior citizens through-
out the community.
Photo by Shari Hambleton
"If something seems childish, they shut off right now," says Tracey Moudy
Baker, working here on an art project with Ray Lappin.
It gives seniors a place to call their own where
they are treated with respect and can socialize in
a safe, supervised environment.
"If something seems childish, they shut off
right now," Baker said of the seniors who partici-
pate in High Country Elder Care programs.
Activities are not limited to the McCall Senior
Citizen Center.
"We go on outings to places like Ponderosa
State Park and Burgdorf ... and picking apples in
Council," Baker said. "It surprises people that we
actually leave this place."
But that may be because the
McCall Senior Citizen Center
is mistaken by many as a resi-
dential treatment facility when
it's not.
"At High Country Elder
Care, we provide a day pro-
gram which has a warm
friendly home -like atmosphere
combined with activities struc-
tured to meet the needs and
enhance the daily lives of its
seniors," Baker said.
Baker, 24, has a college
degree in health education and
began working two years ago
at the elder care. "My whole
fight here is against boredom
(for seniors)," Baker said.
"Here, every day is different."
In addition to art lessons,
daily activities include exer-
cise classes and catching up on
issues and activities by read-
ing newspapers.
"It really bothers them to
not know what's happening
around them," she said.
Soft pastel wallpaper trim
circles a room in the back of
the center filled with plush re-
cliners. Baker said afternoon
rest time is a must for most of
those in the program.
"They can just come in here and rest and relax
for awhile," she said.
High Country Elder Care is open to all seniors
60 years and over in Valley and Adams counties.
An application must be filled out and an inter-
view will be scheduled. A medical form is also
needed from the applicant's physician.
Cost for the program is $3 per hour or $25 per
day. But Baker said no one is turned away be-
cause they can't pay.
A big part of the High Country
Elder Care Program is giving care-
givers and their loved ones a break
from everyday care of a senior family
member, Baker said.
"People do not seem to accept that
they can not always do it all," she
said. "Sometimes they need a break
before they burn out."
High Country Elder Care is lo-
cated in the McCall Senior Citizen
Center behind McCall City Ha11 and
Central District Health Department.
The program operates from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
For more information, call Tracy
Moudy Baker at 634-5408.