Free Mini Health Clinic to be held at Hendricks County Senior Center
As Submitted by Sharon Severy
Posted: June 24, 2008
The Hendricks County Senior Center is offering a free mini health clinic for adults of any age, called Health Matters. The clinic will be held on Friday, from 10 to noon. Screenings will be available for glucose, cholesterol, blood oxygen levels, bone density, heart rate, hearing, and blood pressure. Foot care, vision assessments and anodyne therapy will also be available.
In addition, SHIIP will be available to answer individual questions and give advice on Medicare and insurance issues. Other professionals will provide information on nutrition, living wills, assisted living, retirement clubs, physical therapy, reverse mortgages, hospice, diabetes testing supplies, home care, nursing homes, and long term care insurance. The File of Life, an emergency information notification system, will be available. Bulldog Mobility will provide free mini-tune up service of wheelchairs and scooters.
Health Matters is being sponsored by Lincoln Bank and CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions. Participants include Hendricks Regional Health, Alliance Day Services, Angels of Mercy Home Care, At Your Service Healthcare, Avon Health & Rehab, Bulldog Mobility, Caring Call Connection, Edward Jones, The Hearth at Prestwick, Heartland Healthcare, Ivy Trace, Midwest Mobile Care, MP Total Care, Nightengale Home Care, Odyssey Healthcare, Park Square Manor, Plainfield Health Care Center, Roland Retirement Clubs, SHIIP, Southern Care Hospice, and Superior Home Mortgage. Most services are free and a senior center membership is not required.
A light lunch will be available at noon, as a fundraiser for Senior Services, provided by Northview Christian Church. Cost of the lunch is $3.
The Hendricks County Senior Center is a service of Hendricks County Senior Services and is located at 1201 Sycamore Lane in Danville. For more information or to request a ride, call (317) 745-4303. Senior Services is funded in part by CICOA The Access Network, United Way of Central Indiana, and the generous donations of individuals and community organizations. Service is provided without regard to sex, race, color, religion, disability, or national origin.