April 2006 Vol. 25. No. 4

Published by the Humboldt Senior Resource Center in Eureka, California. HSRC is a non-profit community-based organization offering services for senior citizens, multi-generational families and caregivers.

Eating food from the land: Redwood Roots Farm grows fresh organic produce

Plan ahead: Funeral Consumers Alliance of Humboldt announces April 22 meeting

Growing our local food: Farmers' markets continue tradition of small farming

Calling all gardeners

Area Agency on Aging Public hearings reveal issues

Fortuna senior activities: Wellness Lecture Series at Senior Dining Room

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• The need for earthquake and tsunami evacuation and disaster preparedness, including a safety education program and transportation away from disasters for homebound and those without transportation as well as a system for checking on homebound seniors and adults with disabilities.
• The need for adult day health care services.
• Need to publicize the R-U-OK program (phone call service to check on seniors) available through the Del Norte InfoCenter, 464-7876.
• Need to develop a way for volunteers to provide transportation to those needing services.
• Importance of medication management programs.
• The need to provide and install smoke detectors.
• The need to develop a visiting program with a focus on people older than 85.

The Humboldt County public hearing was held at the Main Library on March 3 and chaired by Supervisor Bonnie Neely.

• The need to utilize transportation systems already in place and to hold a transportation forum and to increase the accessibility of public transit in the Eel River Valley.
• The need to expand services along Hwy. 36, especially transportation services and home delivered meals.
• The growing erosion of dollars available to federal, state and local senior services that will require more private dollars to meet needs and more public and private coordination to deliver services.
• The need for the entire community to handle the growth in the senior population in the next few years. Funding will stay the same while demands for services will go up.