Thursday, April 22.1976
University Daily Kansan
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Local groups benefit aged
Bv ANITA SHELTON
Staff Writer
Elderly residents of Douglas County
leave more from local various local
organizations and去社区。
One of these services is filling out income tax forms, offered by the American Association of Retired People (AARP) Eliza Holmes, president, said recently.
The 225-member organization also offers defensive drills lessons, Holmes said, and offers a variety of training options.
As their driving abilities become impaired, the elderly begin to have transportation problems, Cal Broughton, director of the Council on Aging, said.
TO HELP these people, the Council on Aging has a small-scale bus service, he said. Door-to-door transportation is available for dentists or to an shopping Brompton said.
United Wheels is another bus service for the elderly, Ann Moore, coordinator of the community office of Volunteer Clearing House. said.
Other local services are concerned with giving the senior citizen contacts with other placements.
"Sitting at home, you get very lonely and
a defeatist attitude," Broughton said.
One was the Council on Aging tries to combat this, is by having "congestional agony."
Food, prepared by the Kansas Union, is on Monday's day a week at various locations, he says.
"THE PROGRAM is designed for people to get out of their homes and come to what
we call sight's, "Broughton said. "There are two purposes. The first is a nutritious meal, and the other is one we feel is very im-
Recreational programs are also offered by the Council on Aging, he said. Table crafts, card games, films or group discussions are available after meals.
The buses also take special trips in kansas, he said, so senior citizens may travel to the city.
The Pioneer Club at south Park Recreation Center offers a wide range of activities.
KATHY FODE, director of the center,
said that the organization has monthly
luncheon meetings. Afterward, card games
billboards are the usual activities, she said.
The South Park club travels quite a bit, visiting places such as Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo., and the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Forks said.
Elderly persons visit the center during the week to play cards, she said. Of the 150 members, usually 40 to 60 gather for the card games, she said.
The Ring-D Day program brings contacts to about 35 people in the Lawrence area, which is a key resource.
"It's a contact service for elderly people who are either shut in or deprived of a co-operative care, the said," he said.
The organization is community based and receives donations from organizations, she
DOLEZAL SAID there is little cost in
organization because it is totally
tuited.
"We call them (the senior citizens) to check on how they're doing," she said.
*occasionally we run errands or visit them, things like that, but it's mostly a telephone
Fode said that elderly persons also attend some of the classes that are offered at the South Park Recreation Center. These in-ground recreation in dance, crafts and exercise.
Holmes said that the AARP meetings were basically educational. Speakers, in a variety of fields are featured at their monthly meetings, he said.
The Council on Aging has an information and referral service to aid the elderly.
It also puts out a newsletter and has a geriatric screening clinic. The clinic detects diseases and illnesses, he said, and provides blood pressure checks. It is operated by the Douglas County Health Department and is professionally staffed, he said.
OF THE ESTIMATED 3,500 elderly brought upon the Council reaches about 1,200.
Broughton said that although the Council may not receive federal funds in the future for transportation and nutrition as it now did, she didn't anticipate any real problems.
U.S. defense cuts urged
More revenue-sharing money may be allotted for the recreation, information and referral services and for the screening clinic, he said.
The question of armament belongs to the past and the American government should focus on the civilian sector of society by sharply cutting military spending, Dave McReynolds, War Resisters League field secretary, said last night.
"I don't think that democracy is a spectator sport, nor does change begin in Washington, D.C.," he said. "I just hope that people won't treat it as a spectator sport and instead will take part in the walk."
McReynolds said he hoped people would
realize the urgency of the cause and participate in the walk.
McReynolds, who spoke on "Non-Violence and National Defense" in the Kansas Union, is visiting the University of Kansas to promote a nationwide walk that is scheduled to come through Lawrence en route to Washington, D.C., in mid-July.
The hike is supported at KU by "People in Support of the Continental Walk," an organization spawned by the United Mine Workers. Higher Education-Life Planning Center.
Zing said he expected the walk's participants to arrive in Washington, D.C., in October. They left San Francisco, he said, on Jan. 31.
Otto Zingg, United Ministries campus minister, said the walk showed the need to review the issue of American armament in people to the danger involved in arms policy.
"There are so many social issues that could be dealt with more effectively if more of the money that is now going to defense agencies be allocated to these problems," Zing said.
He said central concerns in Kansas, a major wheat-producing state, are hunger and the energy crisis, problems that could beACHieved and acted upon with proper funding.
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