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The Carmel Foundation has a lot of programs for seniors where you can make new friends and learn new hobbies and get health information. They are also hosting a Prime Rib Twilight Supper for only $18 which includes potatoes, broccoli, glazed carrots, croissants, chocolate mousse and either strawberry lemonade or a glass of wine. Your meal will be served at 3:00 and seating opens at 2:30. Sign up with member services at 624-1588 or www.carmelfoundation.org.
Find out more about the Carmel Foundation on Tuesday, July 11, at the Carmel Foundation’s Diment Hall. The place is a great place to socialize with other seniors, take classes, have meals and discussion groups, they even have various dance classes like Greek, Line Dancing and Nia Freedance. They also have various groups like photography, papercraft and Needlecraft. They recently had an outing to the Legion of Honor in San  Francisco and an upcoming jaunt to Golden Gate Park will occur on Tuesday June 20. For more information go to www.carmelfoundation.org or call 624-1588.
The Carmel Foundation has a lot of programs for seniors where you can make new friends and learn new hobbies and get health information. They are also hosting a Prime Rib Twilight Supper for only $18 which includes potatoes, broccoli, glazed carrots, croissants, chocolate mousse and either strawberry lemonade or a glass of wine. Your meal will be served at 3:00 and seating opens at 2:30. Sign up with member services at 624-1588 or www.carmelfoundation.org.
Carmel Foundation will be hosting a teacher from AARP for a smart driver course from noon until 4:00 p.m. on Monday March 20. It will be held in the Seideneck Room with instructor Curt Tipton. The fee is $20 for AARP members, $25 for non-members payable to the instructor at the time of the class. Sign up online at www.carmelfoundation.org or you can call member services at 624-1588.
The Carmel Foundation has some interesting seminars going on this month. On Wednesday February 22 the Alzheimer’s Association presents “Managing Your Money – A Caregivers Guide To Finances.â€Â It will be held in Diment Hall at 2:30 and refreshments will be served. Regular readers of my blog know that both my father and my grandmother had Alzheimer’s disease when they passed away. The Alzheimer’s Association has a great group of people in the Monterey office. They also have a 24-hour hotline you can call at 1-800-272-3900.
The Carmel Foundation has some interesting seminars going on this month. On Wednesday February 22 the Alzheimer’s Association presents “Managing Your Money – A Caregivers Guide To Finances.â€Â It will be held in Diment Hall at 2:30 and refreshments will be served. Regular readers of my blog know that both my father and my grandmother had Alzheimer’s disease when they passed away. The Alzheimer’s Association has a great group of people in the Monterey office. They also have a 24-hour hotline you can call at 1-800-272-3900.
We all know how hard it is shopping for a supplemental Medicare Plan, also known as Part D. The Wall Street Journal recently took issue with AARP’s marketing of products like health, life and auto insurance, saying, for instance that the AARP MedicareRX Preferred Plan, insured by UnitedHealth Group Inc., carries the highest premium among all national stand-alone Medicare drug plans. AARP has advocated that the 1.74 million members who make up 9% of the market for Part D plans should switch to a cheaper policy. Kaiser Family Foundation backed up this opinion stating in a report that, “We’re certainly at the point where this AARP plan is so expensive that it’s likely that most people in it could save money by switching,†according to Juliette Cubanski, co-author of a report on the issue.
God Bless Ed Dowd, who just gave a $1 million donation (the largest in its history) to Natividad Foundation, the funder for Natividad hospital and its health care system. He made the gift in his mother’s memory. Nora Dowd worked as a registered nurse in Natividad’s mental health unit for 30 years.
