✓Our Free Art Class Meets at Calendar House
Calendar House, the Southington Senior Center on Pleasant Street, is one of the senior centers where we hold Creative Companionship, our free art class for older adults. Nobody needs to know how to paint, and it costs nothing. Our clients and the center's members are both welcome, and there are Polish paczki on the table. Call us to ask when the next class in Southington is.
✓When Your Mother Lives on Her Own
In about two thousand Southington homes, the only person living there is 65 or older, and most of them are women, according to the Census Bureau. Living alone can work well for years. When the shopping, the shower or the nights start to get harder, a few hourly visits a week, or an awake caregiver at night, can help keep it working.
✓Bradley Memorial, the Hospital Campus in Town
The Bradley Memorial campus of The Hospital of Central Connecticut, on Meriden Avenue, has an emergency department and a unit for same-day surgery. We have no part in the care there. Ours starts at your door: after a same-day procedure, hourly visits can cover meals, washing and the housework for the first weeks at home, and be cut back as recovery goes on.