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Dementia Friendly Community

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Project Description

Country: USA

Location: Torrington, WY

Total Budget: $8,000

Areas of Focus: Disease prevention and treatment, Basic education and literacy

Activity Type: Health: Disease

Summary: Funding to support respite services for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients and educating youth to work with seniors


Torrington Rotary Club Dementia Friendly Community Program

Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's can create extreme physical and emotional distress for a caregiver. Caregivers are often placed in a situation where they are faced with critical choices in maintaining their careers and their immediate families and so they can take on this important role of a loved one. In so many instances, they make choices that put aside their social life and put their own health in jeopardy to be able to provide care for their loved one with the disease. Support and training for caregivers is beneficial, but even the most adept caregiver can't go it alone.

The Alzheimer's Association* reports that more than one-third of Alzheimer's and dementia caregivers experience symptoms of depression, and more than half of caregivers report declining health since they've placed the care of their loved ones and neglected their own health. Consequently, many chronic conditions such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes occur at nearly twice the rate among family caregivers.

The Torrington Rotary Club Satellite Group has teamed up with a local home health provider to begin developing a skilled care program to help these families caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. The Torrington Rotary Club is seeking a grant that would provide funding to families in the community for in-home care by professional caregivers who are experienced and trained to care for individuals with Alzheimer's/dementia. The services would be provided free of charge on a voucher system that would be established through grant funds. The granted hours allow family caregivers to have a much needed break. It's an opportunity to get to their personal doctor appointments, connect with friends, or just enjoy some time to themselves all while having the peace of mind that their loved one is receiving individualized care from a skilled provider. This portion of the Dementia Friendly Community Program would look to provide 150 hours of caregiver assistance over a 12 month period. The cost per hour is through the special partnership that has been arranged by Torrington Rotary Club with local trained providers is $20 per hour. It is estimated that vouchers will average 2 hours of care for a total possibility of approximately 75 caregivers benefitting from this service in 12 months.

The grant funds would be used to provide administrative costs for the necessary oversight of a voucher program, local program advertisements in print, radio and social media and an established number of paid hours of skilled care for families seeking respite and assistance over a 1 year time period to allow for utilization of the newly established voucher system and develop ongoing community support to generate additional donations to secure sustainability. The administrative oversight is estimated at $500 over a 12 month period.

Another facet of the Dementia Friendly Community project is to partner with the local school district to provide education to youth (middle school and high school age) about Alzheimer's and Dementia and develop a group that participates with and supports patients with Alzheimer's and Dementia. The youth program would be called YES - Youth Engaging Seniors. This would be an inter-generational community program where local youth would not only be educated on Alzheimer's and Dementia and how to identify with patients suffering from this diagnosis, but would also be provided the opportunity to put their skills into practice by having set times to spend with patients assisting them with the use of technology and other modern equipment so that patients have the ability to communicate with their loved ones through modern means. Fund would be provided to the school district for curriculum materials and provision of educational services and YES program oversight. Support would be provided at $3,000 per year for a 12 month period.

As you can see, the primary focus is of the Dementia Friendly Community program is to educate on a multitude of levels that expands across generations within the community to assure sustainability and provide a lasting impact that will continue to develop and benefit the community for years to come. The culmination of these programs all targeted toward support of Alzheimer's and Dementia patients will no doubt make a difference.

Budget:

Alzheimer's/Dementia Voucher Program and oversight: $3,500

YES (Youth Engaging Seniors) Program: $3,000

Advertising/Promotions - $1,500

Funds - Club contribution $4,000

Local District Grant $4,000

Total project budget: $8,000


Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed)

Per prior requests for adjustments to Alzheimer's project budget, the following expenditures were incurred:

Alzheimer's Respite program: $3890.00 - $390 transferred from YES budget line item

YES Program - $269.21 ($390 transferred to Respite program; $2150 transferred to Music and Memory program)

Advertising: $1310.75

Music and Memory - $2150.00 - transferred from YES program budget line item.

Total expenditures: $7619.96

$4000 Grant Funds

$3619.96 Club match

Project Contact Person

District: 5440

Rotary Club of: Torrington

Primary Contact: Wally Wolski

Email: wally@prairieweb.com

Project Status

Completed
This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners.

Project listed for the 2018-19 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Torrington (5440)

19-Jan-18

$4,000

$4,000

$8,000

Total

$4,000

$4,000

$8,000

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History Log Entries

19-Jan-18

by James Epstein

Project was changed to 2018/19 since district funds for this year are no longer available.

19-Jan-18

by Tom Kelly

System Entry: Creation of project page.

11-May-18

by Randall Looper

Please upload a complete budget to the Documents section.

5-Jun-18

by Randall Looper

Please have your PE complete Club Qualification training. They can find it on the District website in the Training or Foundation/Grants Info. areas.

8-Jun-18

by Randall Looper

Your project has been approved by the District pending a detailed budget of Income and expenses is uploaded to the documents section and Your incoming President completes the Grant qualification training found on the District website.

20-Sep-18

by Tom Kelly

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

21-Sep-18

System Entry

System Entry: Project signed by Wally Wolski.

23-Sep-18

System Entry

System Entry: Project signed by Tim Pieper.

4-Oct-18

by Randall Looper

You still need a detailed budget of Income and expenses uploaded to the documents section and Your incoming President still needs to complete the Grant qualification training found on the District website.

24-Oct-18

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee.

29-Oct-18

by Bill Kehl

System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.

12-Jan-19

by Randall Looper

Please complete a history log with the status of this project. If it is complete please complete a District Final report and upload it along with copies of the receipts to the Documents page.

22-Apr-19

by Randall Looper

Please provide an update on this project. If it is complete you need to complete the final report found on the District website, sign it and upload it and copies of the receipts to the documents area. If you have questions please email or call me at 970-629-0654.

5-Jun-19

by Tom Kelly

The Project in Torrington has moved forward by providing training to over 154 Goshen County community members and businesses who have become Dementia Friendly Community Partners. These partners are publicized locally for recognition of their participation. The YES program has also become active in Goshen County with high school students, engaging participants at all Senior Centers. This YES program idea has now spread to Cheyenne, WY. This will expand this to EWC college students in the fall.

The project has also paid for over 20 care given respite visits for local families this past year.

This project will continue through Winter of 2019 and the goal is to be completed at that time for the use of these funds, however, the it is also the goal that these programs continue on, post awar

16-Oct-19

by Randall Looper

Tom,

Please update where the project is at this point and when you think the end date might be.

24-Jan-20

by Randall Looper

Tom,

Can you please complete a history log update as to where you are at with this project.

9-Apr-20

by Randall Looper

This project appears to be completed and a report and the receipts were uploaded on 12/3/19. However we cannot close it out until you complete the District final report and upload it to the documents section. The report can be found on the District website rotary5440.org under the Foundation/Grants info. tab. Click on Grant information and forms and the District report form is under files on the left hand side. Download the form, complete it, sign it and upload it to the documents area of this project. Please email me or call me at 970-629-0654 if you have any questions.

9-Sep-20

by Tom Kelly

This project is complete. Final report was submitted in July 2020.

All projects were carried out as outlined in reports and updates throughout the project period. Fund are fully expended.

9-Sep-20

by Randall Looper

Tom,

Only $4,000 of the funds were spent on the project. The request from the Satelite club is fine as long as they plan on spending the last $4,000 on the parts they described in the addemdum by the end of 2020.If they are not planning on that what are the deadline details for the extra $4,000? Since the grant is a two for one match they can keep the $4,000 District money if at least $6,000 is spent. This grant cannot be closed until either the money is spent with receipts to back it up or money is returned to the District.

22-Oct-20

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded.

22-Oct-20

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.

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