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Health & Wellbeing   

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  • Community Connections, Resources We Can Use (1st four weeks)
  • Dates: 3/25/2025 - 4/15/2025
    Times: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 4
    Building: Kirby Plaza
    Instructor: Laurie Berner
    This class will feature a different organization and presenter each week, sharing information about the various senior-related programs, services, and support they offer to older adults in Duluth and surrounding communities. Agencies represented will be the Arrowhead Area Agency on Aging, Age Well Arrowhead, The Senior Linkage Line, and The Lighthouse Center for Vital Living.

 

  • Get It Together: Organize Your Records so Your Family Won't Have To (2nd four weeks)
  • Dates: 4/25/2025 - 5/16/2025
    Times: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Days: F
    Sessions: 4
    Building: Kirby Plaza
    Instructor: Bradley Jenson
    The intended outcome of this class is implementing a system for organizing all of your important documents and other important information for the time when someone may need to manage your affairs if you are incapacitated or manage your estate after you die. When you “get it together,” you will have organized your bank records, credit cards, secure places and passwords, past/present employment records, insurance policies, real estate records, tax records, retirement accounts, estate planning documents, funeral and burial arrangements, and more.

    Book: 

    Get It Together: Organize Your Records so Your Family Won’t Have To, by Melanie Cullen with Shae Irving, J.D., ISBN 978141332995 

    NOTE: Please bring the book to each class meeting. Couples may share a workbook.
 

  • Let's Keep It Simple: Let's Talk Nutrition (1st four weeks)
  • Dates: 3/26/2025 - 4/16/2025
    Times: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Days: W
    Sessions: 4
    Building: Kirby Plaza
    Instructor: Gary Johnson
    This class is designed to help participants make their own nutrition decisions. Feedback and questions from members will help guide each session.  Keep it simple; you can make small changes today.

 

  • Senior Driving Safety (2nd four weeks)
  • Dates: 4/21/2025 - 5/12/2025
    Times: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Days: M
    Sessions: 4
    Building: Kirby Plaza
    Instructor: Kay Bakke
    Feeling intimidated on our roadways today? This class will review the newest laws, local roadway challenges, and methods to maintain our driving independence. Course completion will include a certificate to obtain an insurance discount. Materials to receive an insurance discount will be available at the first class session for $15. LIMIT 20

 

If you have registration questions, please contact the US Program Office: (218) 726-7637usask@d.umn.edu

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