CLEARFIELD – Are you interested in learning something new?
The Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging Inc., in collaboration with Lock Haven University Clearfield, announces a upcoming educational seminars offered through the Clearfield Community Life-long Learning Institute.
Courses are geared towards the interests of the baby boomers and older citizens. Typical sessions will last approximately 90 minutes and will be taught primarily by Lock Haven University faculty and community individuals with specific expertise. All programs will be free, or very low cost.
What is Genealogy?:
Have you ever wanted to find out more about where you come from? Ever wondered why you look the way you do?
Perhaps you have pondered why your great-grandparents came to the United States and how your family ended up here.
Each new find brings you to another generation and with them comes new things to search for and explain.
And that is what genealogy is: the researching of your family tree, learning about who came before you and adding those names to a pedigree chart.
The first step to researching family history is to think about yourself and what you already know.
This course will help you get started with answering some of these questions, moving outside the house and putting it on paper.
Research resources will be touched upon from local archives, Internet Web sites, to genealogy software.
You can attend Tuesday, Feb. 6 at the Lock Haven University – Clearfield Academic Building from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., as presenter Mary Kay Royer, who is a LHU alumni, Clearfield County Historical Society director and affectionately known as the Frenchville curator, presents this topic.
Depression in Older Adults:
You can join Presenter Laura Gardner, faculty member, Academic Development and Counseling, Lock Haven University, on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at the Lock Haven University – Clearfield’s Academic Building from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., as she provides a program on depression in older adults.
Aging can be a difficult journey, but with support from spouses, friends, family, colleagues, physicians and other support networks, it can be a rewarding journey.
Depression, according to the Center for Disease Control, is affecting about 13.5 percent of the aging population and is on the rise (January of 2017).
Older adults are often misdiagnosed and mistreated for depression. Depression is the second most chronic disorder treated by primary care physicians.
In this presentation, you will learn what to look for, signs and symptoms, how to reach out for help and where to go to get help.
Older adults often do not reach out for help because they do not understand that they can feel better once correctly diagnosed and treated.
You can join and learn how to identify depression, and help those people in your support network to make this journey of aging a rewarding one.
These seminars are offered at no charge, but pre-registration is required. Register by calling the CCAAA at 814-765-2696.
The Clearfield County Life-long Learning Institute has seminars scheduled through June.
For a complete listing of classes, please visit the agency’s Web site at www.ccaaa.net or www.lhup.edu/clearfield and click on the “Life-long Learning Institute” link.
Programs and services of the agency are funded in part by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, the Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging Inc., Mature Resources Foundation and local and consumer contributions.