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"
March 24th - 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"
March 24th - 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, March 4, 11,18 & 25 1-3 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, March 4, 11,18 & 25 1-3 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.
Senior Forum:
Thursday, March 18th - 10:00 a.m.
Facilitator: Bruce McBeath, Ph.D.
Seniors at the growing edge: we older adults have more ability than we are usually encouraged to use.
What new possibilities await us? We’ve put together some examples of a variety of really interesting activities and experiences older adults are engaging in and enjoying. We also invite you to bring your own examples. Please join us!
Thursday, March 18th - 10:00 a.m.
Facilitator: Bruce McBeath, Ph.D.
Seniors at the growing edge: we older adults have more ability than we are usually encouraged to use.
What new possibilities await us? We’ve put together some examples of a variety of really interesting activities and experiences older adults are engaging in and enjoying. We also invite you to bring your own examples. Please join us!
Free Tax Assistance
for Elderly, Low Income and Disabled Persons
Income tax preparation assistance will be offered free of charge by volunteers from AARP and TCEVITA in cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service and the Minnesota Department of Revenue beginning Thursday, February 4th. Help is provided at the Red Wing Senior Center on Thursday afternoons
and Friday mornings and at the Red Wing
Public Library on Friday afternoons and during the day on Saturday. Call the Red Wing Senior Center to schedule your appointment at 651-267-3599.
for Elderly, Low Income and Disabled Persons
Income tax preparation assistance will be offered free of charge by volunteers from AARP and TCEVITA in cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service and the Minnesota Department of Revenue beginning Thursday, February 4th. Help is provided at the Red Wing Senior Center on Thursday afternoons
and Friday mornings and at the Red Wing
Public Library on Friday afternoons and during the day on Saturday. Call the Red Wing Senior Center to schedule your appointment at 651-267-3599.
Ageism – the last stereotype?
I just received an invitation from high school classmates I haven’t seen for years. They want us all to get together this summer and celebrate our entry into our 7th decade. We’ll do this, they propose, by going skydiving!
No way is this how I imagined this period of my life to be. Perhaps like you, I had been trained to believe that age 70 was old – very old (well, it is a large number). Being this age did not include throwing oneself out of airplanes, or skiing moguls, or learning a new language. No, this was to
be a time for a good book in a quiet corner by the fire, followed by a nap (nothing wrong with that, but life includes so much more).
So, I ask myself, how did we ever learn to get it so wrong about aging? How were these images planted in our brains that show only decrepitude and disability, and little else, with aging? These old stereotypes are beginning to change, but that change is slowed by the fact that we who are now older adults have been trained to live in fear of our own aging. We carry these prejudices within ourselves.
All this would matter less if the stereotypes fed to the young about the life experience of older adults were not so destructive. But they are destructive – younger people grow up being afraid of getting older – and we older adults often fear our continued aging. Like racial prejudice, ageist stereotypes are learned, reinforced by ignorance and biased, distorted pictures about growing older. Personal expectations for how life as older adults will be comes filtered through these stereotypes, and imprints on us a bleak, overcast sense of dread when we take on the status of “seniors.”
Fortunately, real life can intervene and shatter these stereotypes. We get invited to join a bunch of seasoned oldsters and parachute out a plane. Doesn’t every older person do this? Seems they do, far more often than we had ever been allowed to imagine!
Bruce McBeath, Ph.D.