Powerful Tools for Caregivers is an educational series designed to provide you with the tools you need to take care of yourself. This program helps family caregivers reduce stress, improve self-confidence, communicate feelings better, balance their lives, increase their ability to make tough decisions and locate helpful resources.

In a partnership between the Jefferson County Office on Aging, Jefferson City Health and Rehabilitation Center, and UT Extension-Jefferson County, Powerful Tools for Caregivers will be offered in Jefferson County. Classes consist of six sessions held once a week and is taught by two leaders- myself with UT Extension-Jefferson County and Karen Crumbley with Jefferson City Health and Rehabilitation Center. Interactive lessons, discussions and brainstorming will help you take the “tools” you choose and put them into action for your life.

You will receive a book, The Caregiver Helpbook, developed specifically for the class. A donation to the Office on Aging of $30.00 to help defray the cost of the book is suggested, but not required to attend the class. Classes will be held at the Dandridge Senior Center from 1:00-3:30 p.m. Sessions are held every Monday and the program begins on January 27^th. Class size is limited and pre-registration is required.

For more information or to register, contact Rhonda Davis, Director at the Dandridge Senior Center- (865)397-7605 or Karen Crumbley at the Jefferson City Health and Rehabilitation Center- (423) 231-9254/
kcrumbley@jeffersoncityhc.com.

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