Serving Our Seniors Magazine: January - March 2024

As our bodies change from infancy to adulthood, we don’t assign much meaning to it. They seem like transitions – nothing more. In our 60’s, however, wrinkles, cataracts, flabby muscles, age spots, etc… have more relevance. We quietly second guess the meaning of an ache or a pain, feeling tired or forgetting where we laid our keys. There is part of our being, which is fearful of what we might find out if we talk about the changes noticed in later life. Not knowing what is really going on with our body can be more emotionally taxing than actually confronting our fears and getting an answer. On November 11, 2023, Serving Our Seniors opened its office to host individual, private, virtual Successful Aging Visits with Dr. Anmolsingh, geriatrician, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The “Successful Agers” pictured here, took advantage of this service and obtained a baseline of their health at their age. Dr. Anmolsingh will continue this service, virtually, the second Saturday of each month, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Serving Our Seniors office. For more information about Cleveland Clinic is expanding virtual offerings to its Successful Aging Program, which serves individuals age 50+. Cleveland Clinic’s Endowed Chair of Geriatric Innovation and Enterprise Director of the Center for Geriatric Medicine, Ardeshir Hashmi, MD , has been conducting virtual Successful Aging Visits with older adults of Erie County at the Serving Our Seniors office since May 2022. On Front Row: Karen, Darlene; Middle Row: Mary Ann, Diane and Ann; Back Row: Greg, John Virtual Successful Aging Visits call Serving Our Seniors 419-624-1856. Ask to speak with a Senior Advocate Assistant. Confronting Our Health Fears as an Older Person Cleveland Clinic Center for Geriatric Medicine is Expanding Access Through Serving Our Seniors November 11, 2023, the Cleveland Clinic expanded access to its Successful Aging Program by adding Roopa Anmolsingh, MD , geriatrician, to provide virtual appointments the second Saturday of each month from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., at the Serving Our Seniors office. Serving Our Seniors is a geriatric social service agency, which advocates for those age 60+, living in Erie County. The agency believes consultative geriatric medicine needs to become standard practice for rendering primary care to older adults. This type of expertise gives older patients a baseline for measuring changes in health and maintaining an independent lifestyle. Together, primary care and a consultative geriatrician are able to help individuals maintain their health in later life and function independently, longer, into advanced age. For more information, or to schedule a Virtual Successful Aging visit at Serving Our Seniors, Erie County residents, age 60+, should call 419-624-1856. Ask to speak with a Senior Advocate Assistant. Dr. Hashmi and Sue Daugherty 7