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10 | February 27, 2020 | The lake forest leader NEWS
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Aging
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contribution toward all aspects
of community life.
“I’m grateful to North
Shore Senior Center and
AgeOptions for serving
as hosts today,” said Fine,
also the vice chair of the
Illinois Senate’s Human
Services Committee, after
speaking about the expansion
of the state’s Community
Care Program to
provide services to all
people, regardless of age,
who have Alzheimer’s disease
or a related disorder
as defined under the Alzheimer’s
Disease Assistance
Act.
Heather Resnick, a caregiver
specialist at NSSC,
later shared an anecdote
about a woman suffering
from dementia and living
with her two sons. One son
is mentally challenged;
the other has medical issues.
Neither is employed.
Their sister, who took
care of their mother several
times a week, called
NSSC. Resnick educated
and counseled the family,
informing its members
that services are in place to
provide relief.
The woman receives respite
care today.
“They needed a break,”
Resnick said of the mother’s
children. “They now
have a better mindset to
cope with their situation at
home.”
In her opening remarks,
AgeOptions President
and CEO Diane Slezak
brought up a key social
determinant of health, social
isolation. Social determinants
of health have
been defined by Healthy
People 2020 — the federal
government’s prevention
agenda for building
a healthier nation — as
“conditions in the environment
in which people
are born, live, learn, work,
play, worship and age
that affect a wide range
of health, functioning and
quality-of-life outcomes
and risks.”
Housing, food, healthful
behaviors, transportation
and public safety have
been categorized as social
and physical determinants
for decades.
How grave is social isolation?
It has been estimated,
Slezak revealed, that social
isolation is as bad as
smoking 15 cigarettes a
day.
AgeOptions has recognized
the importance of
social determinants since
it started serving suburban
Cook County as its Area
Agency of Aging in 1974.
AgeOptions advocates for
hundreds of thousands annually
because determinants
exist.
AgeOptions turns 65 in
2039, a year before another
census.
It will still be around
then, listening and responding
and supporting.
Count on it.
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Opioids
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Out. Gentes noted that 20
percent of them have been
alcoholics and the rest are
drug users, mostly opioids.
They have had people from
other states come for the
program as well. For people
who cannot afford to pay
for a treatment program,
the federal Affordable Care
Act provides funds to subsidize
their participation.
Gentes explained some of
the basics of the drug problem.
Opioids come in three
classes: 1) natural substances
from poppy plants, which
include heroin, morphine
and codeine; 2) partial synthetic
drugs, which include
Vicodin and Oxycodone;
and 3) Acetyl Fentanyl,
which is entirely synthetic
and is the most potent.
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