BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Springshare//LibCal//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260305T160000Z DTEND:20260305T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260305T000000Z SUMMARY:Wellness Initiative for Senior Education (WISE) Program DESCRIPTION:Wellness Initiative for Senior Education (WISE) Program: An Evidence-based Wellness Program For Older Adults\n\n\n\nEmpowering older adults to make positive\, healthy choices\n\n\n\nAs more Americans enter their senior years and life expectancies reach record highs\, it is more important than ever for seniors to focus on their health and wellbeing. It’s critical they recognize the life choices they make and their behaviors can have a significant impact on their quality of life.\n\n\n\nRecognizing the unique needs and perspective of seniors\, the New Jersey Prevention Network developed the Wellness Initiative for Senior Education (WISE) Program\, a six-week\, evidenced-based substance abuse prevention and wellness program. In covering a range of topics from stress management and strategies for healthy living to medication management and prescription drug abuse\, WISE uses an interactive approach to help seniors celebrate aging\, make positive lifestyle choices\, and feel more confident and in control of their lives.\n\n\n\nThe WISE Program\, developed and widely used in New Jersey since 1996\, has reached over 40\,000 older adults. The program sessions take place every other week for a total six sessions. Each session is about two hours in length. Session topics include medication use and misuse\, stress management\, the aging process\, depression\, alcoholism and prescription drug abuse.\n\n\n\nAges 60 are invited to six sessions on important health & lifestyle topics. Attend them all or choose one or two that interest you! Programs will be happening every other Thursday starting March 5th at 10am at the Eastern Avenue Branch. Program dates are: March 5\, 19 and April 2\, 16\, 30\, and May 14.\n\n\n\nThis program is recommended for adults. Registration is not required. It is also not required to attend all the sessions! Come to as many or as few as you like.\n\n\n\nCenter for Alcohol & Drug Services\, Inc. (CADS)\n\n\n\nThe Center for Alcohol & Drug Services\, Inc. (CADS) covers the entire continuum of care and serves all ages (0-100 ) and is dedicated to the prevention\, education\, and treatment of addictions\, substance abuse\, and other disorders related to the harmful use of alcohol and drugs.\n\n\n\nCADS offers different levels of care from adult in-patient and out-patient services\, half-way house\, adolescent services\, prevention\, and problem gambling services. CADS has more than four decades of experience in the field of substance abuse\, quality facilities\, and a well-organized management structure. CADS oversees funding from multiple private and public sources\, and a host of collaborative initiatives in the Quad Cities area and the states of Iowa and Illinois.\n\n\n\nCADS is part of the Iowa HHS Integrated Provider Network\, with services funded by the Department of Health and Human Services in Iowa and the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.\n\n\n\nSix Lesson Curriculum at a Glance\n\n\n\nMarch 5 - Understanding the Changes Associated with Aging\n\nMarch 19 – Aging Sensitivity\n\nApril 2 - Valuing Cultural and Generational Diversity\n\nApril 16 - Medication and the Older Adult\n\nApril 30 - Substance Abuse\, Addiction\, and Older Adults\n\nMay 14 - An Enhanced Quality of Life\n\nSix Lesson Curriculum Breakdown\n\n\n\nMarch 5th - Lesson One: Understanding the Changes Associated with Aging\n\nExpected Outcomes\n\n\n Better understanding of the facts and myths of aging\n Greater familiarity with the top ten causes of death in America\n Enhanced knowledge of what places individuals at risk for premature death and how to avoid these risks\n Heightened awareness of the risk of depression among seniors\n\n\n\n\nMarch 19th - Lesson Two: Aging Sensitivity\n\nExpected Outcomes\n\n\n Better understanding of the biological changes associated with aging\n Greater insight into our own feelings about aging\n Heightened awareness of the advantages of growing older\n\n\n\n\nApril 2 - Lesson Three: Valuing Cultural and Generational Diversity\n\nExpected Outcomes\n\n\n Expanded understanding of the concepts of culture and diversity\n Improved ability to name our own cultural identifications\, how they impact our values and the ways we interact with others\n Better understanding of the diversity of senior citizens and the unique needs of different types of seniors\n Heightened awareness of the assumptions people commonly make about various cultural groups and how they affect social interaction\n\n\n\n\nApril 16 - Lesson Four: Medication and the Older Adult\n\nExpected Outcomes\n\n\n Increased awareness of the prevalence of medication use among older adults\n Improved ability to identify the behaviors that lead to medication misuse\n Expanded knowledge of how to manage medication use\n Greater familiarity with drugs commonly used by older adults\, typical adverse reactions to drugs\, and age-related changes in how drugs are metabolized\n Improved ability to relate critical information to health care providers and ask important questions relevant to medication use\n\n\n\n\nApril 30 - Lesson Five: Substance Abuse\, Addiction\, and Older Adults\n\nExpected Outcomes\n\n\n Increased understanding of addiction as a disease\n Improved ability to identify the signs of alcohol abuse among seniors\n Expanded knowledge of the effects of alcohol and other drug use and abuse\n Greater familiarity with the health risks and treatment options for addiction\n Improved ability to identify factors that place older adults at risk for substance abuse and protective factors that can help prevent it\n\n\n\n\nMay 14 - Lesson Six: An Enhanced Quality of Life\n\nExpected Outcomes\n\n\n Greater familiarity with strategies for maintaining a healthy lifestyle\n Increased awareness of our personal “stress triggers”\n\n\n\n Heightened awareness of our personal value\n\n LOCATION:Meeting Room B\, Eastern ORGANIZER;CN="Information Services":MAILTO:reference@davenportlibrary.com CATEGORIES:Educational CONTACT;CN="Information Services":MAILTO:reference@davenportlibrary.com STATUS:CONFIRMED UID:LibCal-15511820 URL:https://davenportlibrary.libcal.com/event/15511820 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT15M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR