Announcements
Please Save the Date for our Annual Luncheon!
Southwest Suburban Center on Aging’s Annual Luncheon will be held Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. at La Grange Country Club. We will present the 2008 Community Service Honoree and hear a keynote speech by Melissa Isaacson, Chicago Tribune Staff Reporter. Ms. Isaacson recently wrote a compelling feature for the Chicago Tribune Magazine about her parents’ dual diagnoses of Alzheimer’s disease. She will discuss her family’s experience and the resources they found helpful.
For information, please contact Niki Chibucos at 708-354-1323, extension 26, or e-mail nchibucos@swscoa.org.
Annual Appeal Features Painting by Miriam Aivazian
We are privileged to have the opportunity to showcase the art work of one of our clients, Miriam Aivazian, 85, on the cover of our Annual Appeal. With the assistance of her case manager, Miriam is able to maintain her home and continue to use her talent to enrich our lives.
We appreciate Miriam’s generosity in lending us this superb oil painting to symbolize our mission to enhance the productivity and independence of seniors in our community. For 37 years, Southwest Suburban Center on Aging has been the leader in connecting families to the most comprehensive, expert information, programs and services they need to help their loved ones lead productive and independent lives. Help us stay connected by making a donation to the Annual Appeal. If you have not received a card asking for your support, please contact Niki Chibucos, Director of Development and Community Relations, 708-354-1323, extension 26 or e-mail nchibucos@swscoa.org. Thank you!
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Gentle Exercise Classes
The Southwest Suburban Center on Aging is offering gentle exercise classes for seniors who suffer from arthritis and would like to maintain flexibility. The classes are offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 am at the Center. The cost for each one hour class is $4.00. A pass for nine classes may be purchased for $32. The classes are taught by Pat Michet, a certified Arthritis Foundation exercise instructor. For more information, please call the Center at 708-354-1323, or visit during business hours 8:30 am until 4:30 pm daily.
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Opening of the Aging Resource Center (ARC)
Southwest Suburban Center on Aging is proud to announce the opening of the Aging Resource Center (ARC), located at Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital. ARC is an innovative approach to ensuring that older adults have the information they need to make the best long term care choices following an illness or medical event. Staffed by a social worker, ARC is dedicated to providing patients and their families with options for care such as meals, bathing and housekeeping assistance, caregiver support, adaptive equipment, and benefits. The Aging Resource Center is designed to ensure that plans are made before a patient is discharged from the hospital or nursing facility eliminating any delay in in-home services.
Patients and families are also invited to visit ARC for health information and educational material. ARC is located on the first floor of the Patient Care Center in Room A1390, next to the Gift Shop. A grant from Community Memorial Foundation funded the initiation of The Aging Resource Center. top of page
Celebrity Athletes Headline SWSCOA Sports Ball
Southwest Suburban Center on Aging’s (SWSCOA) seventh annual Sports Ball Benefit Gala was held Saturday, April 19, 2008 at La Grange Country Club. Celebrity athletes representing major league teams headlined the evening of tailgate cocktails, skybox dining, auctions and dancing to the music of J.P. and the Cats. Master of ceremonies Ryan Baker, CBS Chicago sports anchor, welcomed John Lattner, Notre Dame alumnus and Heisman Trophy winner; Ken Geiger, former scout for the Chicago Bears; Bob Will, former Chicago Cubs player; Skip Pitlock, former White Sox player; Billy Leagans, Los Angeles Rams player; Charlie Brown former Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears player; and Dick Stanfel, former line coach for the Super Bowl Championship Chicago Bears.
This year’s event was the most successful to date raising $45,000 to support the organization’s social service programs assisting those 60 years of age and older in suburban southwest and west communities.
The event gave 225 guests the opportunity to meet celebrity athletes who signed autographs and answered questions about the outstanding careers they enjoyed with major league teams.
Auction items showcasing a Notre Dame package included the opportunity to “borrow” John Lattner’s Heisman trophy for two weeks; golf packages with rounds of golf at La Grange Country Club; trips to Scottsdale, Arizona, Beaver Creek, Colorado and Siesta Key, Florida; a deluxe wine “experience;” a complete holiday tablescape for 12 guests; Loras College All-Sports Camp for one week; lunch with Fox News Chicago sports anchor Corey McPherrin including the use of a luxury automobile for the day; and a catered, day-long sailing trip for six on Lake Michigan paired with a flying lesson and overnight hotel stay will made for exciting bidding.
The final live auction benefited SWSCOA’s Aging Resource Center at Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital. The collaborative effort is an innovative approach to ensuring that older adults have the information they need to make the best long term care choices following a hospitalization.
Planning Committee members included: Lora Jeffrey, Clarendon Hills; Chrisy Banakis, Downers Grove; Lizzi Chibucos, Elmhurst; Lora Collins and GeriAnne Salach, Hinsdale; Pat McLaughlin, Indian Head Park; Katie Jaskierski, Cathy McCrory, Laura Schwartz, Stefani Shanley, and Karen Westrick, La Grange; Melissa Budak, La Grange Park; Katie Elster, Libertyville; Lois Barnett, Lisle; Margaret Mary Mallon, Oak Brook; Erin Baltazar, Skokie; Susan Druffel and Saranne Milano, Western Springs; Sue Tutt-Parsons and Deborah Zuckswerth, Westchester; and Tom Adams and Niki Chibucos, Westmont.
SWSCOA is a non-profit organization which is the connection to the most comprehensive, expert information, programs and services enabling older adults to remain independent and their families to make the best, most informed decisions regarding needed care in their lives. Serving 22 communities in the Lyons, Riverside and South Proviso Townships, SWSCOA programs and services are made possible by community support and donations, and, in part, by the Illinois Department on Aging (IDOA), AgeOptions, Community Memorial Foundation and local United Ways.
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Church volunteers build ramp for North Riverside woman
By Annemarie Mannion, Tribune reporter
Rebeca Salazar no longer is cooped up in her North Riverside home.Thanks to volunteers who installed a wooden ramp last weekend, Salazar, 83, has regained some of her independence and can once again visit the garden she loves.
"Before, she couldn't go downstairs unless there were two people there to support and help her," said her daughter, Maria Bazaldua of Westchester. Now, Salazar, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and has arthritis, can use her walker or wheelchair to go into her front yard on her own or get to the car to go to doctor's appointments.
The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-whelpingout_ramp_may21,0,5866460.story
Annual Appeal Features Painting by Miriam Aivazian
Church volunteers build ramp for North Riverside woman
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