Free Legal Services
Free legal help is offered through Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services to people who are over 60 or have a low income. Problems they handle are Government benefits, including food stamps, Medicare, Medical Assistance and Social Security/SSI; Housing, including tenants rights, mobile home park laws, eviction defense, subsidized/public housing and nursing home care; Consumer, including collection, creditor harassment and utility shut-offs; Family, including domestic abuse and grandparent's rights.
Call toll free 1.888.575.2954.
"Resources & Referrals"
Septembeer 22nd - 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Jane Whiteside, Ph. D., Licensed Psychologist
Jane Whiteside is our new R&R Counselor. She can help you sort through problems and explore possible resources. For an appointment call the Senior Center at 267.3599. Free and confidential.
Partners in Aging
Fairview Red Wing Health Services' Partners in Aging Program is designed to provide support and help as you navigate through the health care system. Through the provision of a Senior Patient Advocate, we will visit with you and provide you with education and information about the resources that are available to help you stay healthy and safe in your home. If you are dealing with a chronic illness or are an older adutl facing life changing health conditions, call 651.267.5425 for more information.
Talk to Dr. McBeath
Dr. McBeath is a clinical psychologist working with Goodhue County Social Services. His special interest is helping seniors deal with emotional stresses. Consultations are free of charge. Call him to set up an appointment at 380-5042.
Free legal help is offered through Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services to people who are over 60 or have a low income. Problems they handle are Government benefits, including food stamps, Medicare, Medical Assistance and Social Security/SSI; Housing, including tenants rights, mobile home park laws, eviction defense, subsidized/public housing and nursing home care; Consumer, including collection, creditor harassment and utility shut-offs; Family, including domestic abuse and grandparent's rights.
Call toll free 1.888.575.2954.
"Resources & Referrals"
Septembeer 22nd - 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Jane Whiteside, Ph. D., Licensed Psychologist
Jane Whiteside is our new R&R Counselor. She can help you sort through problems and explore possible resources. For an appointment call the Senior Center at 267.3599. Free and confidential.
Partners in Aging
Fairview Red Wing Health Services' Partners in Aging Program is designed to provide support and help as you navigate through the health care system. Through the provision of a Senior Patient Advocate, we will visit with you and provide you with education and information about the resources that are available to help you stay healthy and safe in your home. If you are dealing with a chronic illness or are an older adutl facing life changing health conditions, call 651.267.5425 for more information.
Talk to Dr. McBeath
Dr. McBeath is a clinical psychologist working with Goodhue County Social Services. His special interest is helping seniors deal with emotional stresses. Consultations are free of charge. Call him to set up an appointment at 380-5042.
Goodhue County Public Health Service
The mission of Goodhue County Public Health is to promote, preserve and protect the health of Goodhue County Residents. Our Adult Health department provides multiple services to assist people to live as healthy as possible in the community. The program proves home care services for seniors with physical or mental health problems through provision of nursing, home health aides, homemakers, physical, occupational and speech therapies. For more information call the Intake Nurse at 651.385.6100 or
1-800.950.2142.
Medicare Insurance Counseling
Do you need help sorting Medicare insurance forms? Medicare insurance counseling is offeed FREE OF CHARGE by a state certified counselor. Call the Senior Linkage Line at 1.800.333.2433 for this FREE service
Foot Care Clinic
Thursday, Sept. 2, 9, 16, & 23 & 30 - 3 pm
A home health nurse is available at the Senior Center to provide foot care to seniors. Appointments are required. To schedule an appointment or for more information call Fairview Red Wing Homecare and Hospice at 385.3410. The cost is $32.
Fairview Red Wing Home Care and Hospice
Fairview Homecare and Hospice provide skilled supportive services directly in your home. Call our Intake Nurse Lori for more information at 651.385.3410 and maintain your independence at home.
The mission of Goodhue County Public Health is to promote, preserve and protect the health of Goodhue County Residents. Our Adult Health department provides multiple services to assist people to live as healthy as possible in the community. The program proves home care services for seniors with physical or mental health problems through provision of nursing, home health aides, homemakers, physical, occupational and speech therapies. For more information call the Intake Nurse at 651.385.6100 or
1-800.950.2142.
Medicare Insurance Counseling
Do you need help sorting Medicare insurance forms? Medicare insurance counseling is offeed FREE OF CHARGE by a state certified counselor. Call the Senior Linkage Line at 1.800.333.2433 for this FREE service
Foot Care Clinic
Thursday, Sept. 2, 9, 16, & 23 & 30 - 3 pm
A home health nurse is available at the Senior Center to provide foot care to seniors. Appointments are required. To schedule an appointment or for more information call Fairview Red Wing Homecare and Hospice at 385.3410. The cost is $32.
Fairview Red Wing Home Care and Hospice
Fairview Homecare and Hospice provide skilled supportive services directly in your home. Call our Intake Nurse Lori for more information at 651.385.3410 and maintain your independence at home.
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Notary Public
Shirley Perkins is a Notary Public and will notarize your important papers. Donations for this complimentary service are gratefully accepted. Please call Shirley to arrange a time at 267-3559.
Shirley Perkins is a Notary Public and will notarize your important papers. Donations for this complimentary service are gratefully accepted. Please call Shirley to arrange a time at 267-3559.
The Challenge of the Single Life for Older Adults
Our basic need for safety and security creates in us a desire for stable relationships. We settle into patterns of activity and intimacy with a spouse, family and close friends that may hardly vary for decades. These relationships become a protective skin that makes the pain and unpredictability of life more tolerable. The loss of a spouse or partner through death or divorce destroys that skin and turns everything
on its head, leaving the surviving partner feeling like an alien in a foreign land – not just alone, but lost and vulnerable as well.
Suddenly, where life was comfortably fitted into a coupled world, there is singleness – a “onesey” without a “twosey” as someone in exactly that situation termed it. Every experience in life now feels different-- every decision is borne alone, from each rearrangement of furniture to how to structure the day. Negotiating social relationships, once part of a routine, now becomes complicated and difficult,
indeed often the hardest aspect of this new (and so often unwanted), single life.
Those of us standing on the outside and watching someone struggle with this kind of loss can well understand the pressure and desire some feel to re-couple quickly, to bury their loss and painful loneliness in another relationship as soon as possible. For many older adults, the loss of a spouse presents the surviving partner with their first real experience of being “on their own.” Many older people have had minimal experience with any kind of single life until the death of their spouse, and consequently take on two new and unwelcome experiences simultaneously: profound loss and being a first time single.
A single person’s already heightened sense of vulnerability is further compounded by the nature of the remarkable different world any older single person encounters today. There is great risk of sliding into social isolation in this more anonymous society where so much of our communication with others has been replaced by machines. Missing the personal affirmation provided by simple daily encounters
with others, older singles work hard to avoid withdrawing and isolating to protect against what can feel like a chilly and forbidding social climate. Having lost the protective skin of couple-hood, encountering life as an older single requires real courage.
Bruce McBeath, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist
Senior Forum:
Looking at The Older Single Life
Facilitator: Bruce McBeath
Thursday, September 16th at 10:00 a.m.
Even if we are not currently living a single life, we older adults all confront the likelihood of singleness through loss. How should we think about this as a possible later stage of
life? Is any kind of emotional preparation useful? What can we learn from the experience of those who have already
experienced sailing in these waters? Please join us!.
Looking at The Older Single Life
Facilitator: Bruce McBeath
Thursday, September 16th at 10:00 a.m.
Even if we are not currently living a single life, we older adults all confront the likelihood of singleness through loss. How should we think about this as a possible later stage of
life? Is any kind of emotional preparation useful? What can we learn from the experience of those who have already
experienced sailing in these waters? Please join us!.