[NFBV-Seniors] September Monthly Call

Nancy Yeager nancyyeager542 at comcast.net
Sat Sep 23 14:51:19 UTC 2017


The next Senior conference call will take place this Wednesday, September 27
at 7:00 pm.

 

Call-in numbers are below:

 

(605) 472-5481 

Access Code: 304571 pound 

 

This meeting's primary focus is to finalize the Seminar to be held at State
Convention on the afternoon of Saturday, November 4.

 

Listed below are the topics recommended at last month's meeting.

 

1.    Emotional support.

2.    Hearing loss panel with Arlington County Agency on Aging
recommendation and Alan Schlank, one of our members, to reflect on the
hearing loss general culture, and a blind person's response to hearing loss

3.    Showing the Colorado Center for the Blind Seniors in Charge DVD which
positively portrays a variety of activities with newly blind seniors and
their sighted family members

4.    Glenn Crosby, husband of our national representative, serves on our
NFB Seniors Division board share what is going on nationally with blind
seniors and also in the state of Texas.

5.    Estate planning.

6.    Elsie Castleman talk about being, in her own words, "good busy" and
"fun" busy" 

7.    Panel with Elsie Castleman and Michael Kasey to talk about their
community work-Elsie to talk about her work with the city council relative
to her housing community, and Michael to talk about H.O.M.E., Inc, providing
low-income housing for disabled citizens in the Fredericksburg area.

8.    Transportation choices for seniors such as Go-Go Grandparent, Uber,
Lyft, etc.

9.    Tour of hotel kitchen for a behind-the-scene understanding of meal
preparation

10.   Exercise at the end of the formal seminar.

 

Nancy Yeager,

President

NFBV Senior Division

 

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