HomeMy WebLinkAboutAdult Care CAC minutes 111716Orange County Adult Care Community Advisory Committee
Meeting Minutes
November 17, 2016
Meeting convened:
Meeting called to order at 3:40 pm at the Passmore Center in Hillsborough, NC by
Chairman, Max Mason.
Attendance:
Max Mason, Chair
Jack Vogt, Vice Chair
Deborah Stewart, Secretary
Debbie Rider, Member
Suzanne Haff, Member
Yvonne Mendenhall, Member
Gloria Brown, Member
Cresha Cianciolo, Member
William Lang, Member
Mary Fraser, Department on Aging
The absence of Beverly Foster is considered excused.
Review Minutes September 29, 2016
Approved with minor edit.
Ombudsperson Report, Autumn Pittman
They are still interviewing for replacement for Carmelita.
Autumn will soon learn about and share the final Ombudsman rule on how new CAC members are
appointed.
Report from the Department on Aging, Mary Fraser
• New Senior Times was distributed.
• Main focus on new 5 year master aging plan — moving forward. Will have 5 work groups to
work on issues identified as needing development, expansion:
1- Housing (affordability, availability, quality, LTC facilities are considered in this area)
2- Transportation (via buses, walking safely, benches- accessibility)
3- Volunteerism and employment
4- Social participation and inclusion
5- Community and health services — Aging in Place
They are looking for participants and will be reaching out to government and agencies.
Each group will meet 5 times every other week between January and March for 2 hrs each.
Notify Mary if you are interested.
Board of Aging Updates, Yvonne Mendenhall
• LTC Learning Collaborative is working on LTC Initiative with programs /agencies (Livewell
was the only ALF). NH CAC met with them to increase outreach to facilities that they visit,
to increase positive interactions. The initiative now wants to extend this program to all and
encourages us to participate by sharing Smile Surprises with caregivers, residents, and
others to express thanks, recognition, gratitude, kindness.
• Yvonne passed out samples of the Smile Surprises that they have created. Our committee
expressed interest in participating as well and are willing to help put the packages
together and take them to our facilities.
• Ideas for future — (1) fundraising, (2) having residents help put these together. Activities
directors seem to like the idea and have been very receptive.
• We discussed possible conflicts and concluded there is no conflict in bringing little gifts of
kindness — even on site visits
• Cheri Roseman of the LTC Learning Collaborative coming to our January meeting.
Visitation Reports
Cedar Grove #1 & #2 (10/20/16) - approved
Charles House — Yorktown (10120116) - approved
Charles House — Winmore (8/9/16) - approved
Housekeeping
Next meeting scheduled for January 19, 2017.
Adjournment
Upon completion of its business, the Committee voted to adjourn at 5:25 pm.
Minutes submitted by Deborah Stewart, Secretary.