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Urgent Need for Volunteers. Do you have just a little time to spare to help your neighbors? Consider driving a neighbor to a medical appointment. Helping a neighbor with a minor home repair like changing smoke detector batteries. Greeting new neighbors and telling them about Fearrington Cares. Complete our online volunteer interest form or print it out and bring it to the Center. We’d love to talk with you.
Lunch & Learn: “Short Visit” Home Care Services. Tuesday, January 24. Discover our innovative “short visit” program to help you with the activities of daily living — services we all will need at some point as we age. To register, call 919-542-6877 by noon on January 20.
Considering Clinical Trials and Research Studies, Thursday, January 26. Learn how participants are recruited for clinical trials and research study groups and how the process is conducted from start to finish from Emily Olsson, Program Manager for the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute at UNC.
Share Your Ideas on Our Education Programs, Thursday, February 9. Join us for a conversation about what Fearrington Cares education programs have been the most helpful to you, which have not, and what other programs you’d like us to develop. Please wear a mask for this event.
Updates on Hearing Technology, Thursday, February 23. Ignoring hearing loss in middle adulthood has been shown to lead to cognitive decline later in life. Learn about prescription based and over-the-counter hearing aids and other technologies to improve hearing from Caitlin Whitson, AuD, clinical audiologist and clinic manager at the UNC Hearing and Communication Center.
Note: The UNC Hearing and Communication Center will offer free 10-minute hearing screenings on Tuesday, March 14 from 1 – 3:45 pm at the Fearrington Cares Center. To register, call us at 919-542-6877.
New Health Care Concierge Services
We’re pleased to announce three new services for our neighbors in Fearrington Village. The first two will be coordinated by Aegis Home Care in Chapel Hill:
- Short Visit” Supportive Care Services represent an innovation in home care services by eliminating the four-hour minimum shift that is usually required.
- “Complex/Unique” In-Home Nursing Services go beyond the triage clinic nursing care and home visits that Fearrington Cares currently provides free of charge.
- Routine Foot Care will be available in the Fearrington Cares Center. This new service will supplement our monthly free nail trimming program to provide more comprehensive foot care by a professional licensed provider with the State of North Carolina.
Blood Drive, Monday, February 20. If you missed our December blood drive, here’s another chance to donate the most precious commodity — your blood. Join us on Thursday, February 9 from 10 am – 2:30 pm at Galloway Ridge for a community-wide blood drive. Whether you live in Fearrington Village, Galloway Ridge, or the Duke Center for Living, we’d love to see you. Make an appointment at the Red Cross website and enter the sponsor code “Galloway.”
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Fearrington Faces profiles four of our neighbors each year. Our most recent profile is of Suzy and Dave Shaub, Fearrington Cares Ambassadors serving Bradford Place.
