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Caregiver Services and Alzheimer's Support (ပှၤကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်တၢ်အတၢ်မၤစၢၤဒီးအဲ(လ)စဲမၢၣ်အတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲ)

Caregiver’s Resource Center and Alzheimer’s Support Unit လၢအအိၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်လၢ Office for the Aging န့ၣ်တၢ်မၤကဲထီၣ်အီၤလၢတၢ်ကဟ့ၣ်ပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်တဖၣ်လၢအကဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်လၢအကံၢ်အစီဂ့ၤဆူသးပှၢ်သးနံၣ်ဒိၣ်တဖၣ်ဒီးပှၤလၢအအိၣ်ဒီးသးနီၢ်ခိတလၢတပှဲၤတဆူၣ်တချ့တဖၣ်ဖဲပၢၤဃာ်အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်အတၢ်အိၣ်မူတဖၣ်လၢအကံၢ်အစီဂ့ၤဂ့ၤဒီးအ၀ဲသ့ၣ်အဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိအတၢ်အိၣ်မူအခါန့ၣ်လီၤ.

Caregiver Instructional Videos 

Caregiver's Resource Center (ပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အဂံၢ်ထံးအလီၢ်ခၢၣ်သး) အတၢ်မၤစၢၤအတၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤတဖၣ်ပာ်ဃုာ်-

တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤ,တၢ်ဆှၢဃီၤဒီးတၢ်တၢၣ်ပီၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ကူၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ဖး
နီၢ်တဂၤအတၢ်မၤစၢၤလၢတၢ်ကဆၢတဲာ်နတၢ်လိၣ်ဘၣ်တဖၣ်,တၢ်ဆှၢဃီၤတဖၣ်လၢတၢ်ကတုၤထီၣ်နတၢ်လိၣ်ဘၣ်တဖၣ်,ဒီးမ့ၢ်တၢ်ကသ့လဲၤခီဖျိကွံာ်သးတၢ်ဆီၣ်သနံးဘၣ်ထွဲဒီးတၢ်ဘၣ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်တဖၣ်ဒ်လဲၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.  မၤလိအါထီၣ်ဘၣ်ဃးCaregiver's Resource Center (ပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်ဂံၢ်ထံးအလီၢ်ခၢၣ်သး)--ဟဲအိၣ်သကိးကွၢ်ဘၣ်ပပှာ်ယဲၤသန့ကဘျံးပၤတနံၤအံၤတက့ၢ်. 


တၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲအကရူၢ်တဖၣ်
ပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲအကရူၢ် 

This group meets every other week on Tuesdays from 1 pm-2 pm.  Participants are welcome to join in person at the Office for the Aging, 214 W. Martin Luther King Jr/State Street, Ithaca, or via zoom.  Call 607-274-5486 with questions or to register.

တၢ်ဆှၢဃီၤတဖၣ်န့ၣ်တၢ်ဆှၢအီၤဆူလီၢ်က၀ီၤတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲအကရူၢ်လၢအဂၤတဖၣ်အအိၣ်ဒ်တၢ်လိၣ်ဘၣ်အိၣ်အသိးန့ၣ်လီၤ.

လံာ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်တဖၣ်
ကိးဘၣ် (607) 274-5486 လၢတၢ်ကမၤန့ၢ်ပတၢ်ဆှၢန့ၢ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်အစရီလၢတၢ်ကစးထီၣ်ဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ဆဲးလီၤမံၤလၢတၢ်ကမၤန့ၢ်တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤလၢတလိၣ်ဟ့ၣ်အပှ့ၤလၢ In Support of Caregivers,သၢလါတဘျီလံာ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်လၢအအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ကွဲးတဖၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဘိးဘၣ်သ့ၣ်ညါတဖၣ်လၢအမ့ၢ်တၢ်သးစဲလၢဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်တဖၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. Caregiver's Resource Center ပၢၤဃာ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဂံၢ်ထံးတခါဒီးတၢ်ဒုးလိၢ်လံာ်လၢလံာ်ရိဒၢးလၢပှၤတ၀ၢဖိလၢအကဲကရၢဖိဒီးပှၤစဲၣ်နီၤတဖၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. လၢတၢ်ကကွၢ်တၢ်ထုးထီၣ်ရၤလီၤ In Support of Caregivers လၢအရၤလီၤအသးတယံာ်ဒံးဘၣ်တခါအဂီၢ်, ဆီၣ်လီၤဖဲအံၤ.


တၢ်သိၣ်လိတဖၣ်ဒီးတီၤဒၢးတဖၣ်
တၢ်သိၣ်လိလၢတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်န့ၣ်တၢ်ဟ့ၣ်လီၤအီၤဘၣ်ဆၢဘၣ်ကတီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. လၢတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤဘၣ်ထွဲဒီးမုၢ်နံၤဒီးတၢ်လီၢ်တၢ်ကျဲတဖၣ်အဂီၢ်,၀ံသးစူၤကိးဘၣ် (607) 274-5486. တၢ်သိၣ်လိအခိၣ်တီလၢတၢ်ဒုးပာ်ဃုာ်တဖၣ်-

  • စုက၀ဲၤလၢအသဟီၣ်ဆူၣ်လၢပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အတီၤဒၢးတဖၣ်
  • တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲလီၤနသး
  • တၢ်ဆဲးကျိးဆဲးကျၢအတၢ်သ့တၢ်ဘၣ်တဖၣ်
  • ပှၤတ၀ၢတၢ်တိစၢၤမၤစၢၤတဖၣ်
  • ခိၣ်နူာ်ဂံၢ်သဟီၣ်စၢ်လီၤဖဲသးပှၢ်ကတီၢ်
  • တၢ်သးသဟီၣ်လီၤဒီးတၢ်သးပှၢ်ထီၣ်
  • တၢ်ဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါဘၣ်ထွဲဒီးတၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်နမိၢ်ပၢ်လၢအသးပှၢ်ထီၣ်
  • တၢ်သးပှၢ်ထီၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်ကီ
  • သးတၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ဂ့ၢ်၀ီဖဲသးပှၢ်ထီၣ်အကတီၢ်

Alzheimer's Support Unit (အဲ(လ)စဲမၢၣ်တၢ်သါပ့ၤနီၣ်တၢ်အါထီၣ်ဖဲသးပှၢ်ထီၣ်အခါတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲအ၀ဲၤဒ့)
ဟ့ၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤဒီးတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲဆူပှၤအကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်ပှၤလၢအအိၣ်ဒီးအဲ(လ)စဲမၢၣ်သးသပ့ၤဆူၣ်တၢ်ဆါမ့တမ့ၢ်ခိၣ်နူာ်ဂံၢ်သဟီၣ်လီၤအကလုာ်လၢအဂၤအတၢ်ဆါလၢအပတီၢ်ခဲလၢာ်အပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်ကွဲးတဖၣ်ဒီးလံာ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်လၢအဘၣ်ထွဲဒီးတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်အကလုာ်ကလုာ်လၢပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အသးစဲန့ၣ်အိၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်,အမဲာ်ညါလံာ်ဒီးတၢ်ဂီၤမူဘၣ်ထွဲဒီးတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်လၢခိၣ်နူာ်အဂံၢ်သဟီၣ်လီၤစၢ်ဂ့ၢ်၀ီလၢလံာ်ရိဒၢးလၢအဒုးလိၢ်တၢ်အပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. Dementia Caregiving တၢ်သိၣ်လိတဖၣ်န့ၣ်တၢ်သ့ၣ်နံၤဖးသီရဲၣ်ကျဲၤအီၤလၢအဆၢကတီၢ်ဒၣ်၀ဲန့ၣ်လီၤ. လီတဲစိတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲလၢအအိၣ်ဟဲလၢပှၤလၢအဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်ဆူပှၤအိၣ်ဒီးခိၣ်နူာ်အဂံၢ်ဘါအသဟီၣ်လီၤဖဲအသးပှၢ်ထီၣ်အခါလၢညါတဖၣ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်လၢဃုာ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲအကရူၢ်တဖၣ်ဒီးတၢ်တၢၣ်ပီၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ကူၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ဖးလၢအအိၣ်ဒီးပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိန့ၣ်လီၤ. 


ပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်ဟံးန့ၢ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးဒီးတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲခီဖျိ Project CARE
The Office for the Aging's Project CARE မ့ၢ်တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤတခါလၢအဟ့ၣ်ဟံၣ်အပူၤတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲဆူဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိပှၤကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်တၢ်တဖၣ်ဒ်န့ၣ်အသိးတၢ်မၤစၢၤလိၤလိၤဆူသးပှၢ်လၢအအိၣ်ဒၣ်လၢဟံၣ်ဒီးစၢ်လီၤတဖၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. Volunteers of the Project Care Program (ပှၤမုာ်သးမၤကလီတၢ်လၢတၢ်တိာ်ကျဲၤတၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ) ဟ့ၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်တၢ်မၤစၢၤလၢကျိၤကွာ်တဘျုးဘိ,မၤစၢၤဃုာ်ဒီးတၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤလၢလာ်တခါမ့တမ့ၢ်အါခါန့ၣ်လီၤ-

  • တၢ်လဲၤအိၣ်သကိးရ့လိာ်သး
  • တၢ်မၢစုထံးခီၣ်ထံး
  • တၢ်လဲၤပှ့ၤတၢ်အီၣ်တၢ်အီတၢ်လိၣ်တၢ်လဲး
  • တၢ်မၤကဆှဲကဆှီဟံၣ်လၢအဖှံ
  • တၢ်မၤကဆှီဟံၣ်ကပိၤကပၤလၢအဖှံ
  • တၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးအိၣ်သါလၢပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အဂီၢ်

Volunteers may stay with a frail senior so that the caregiver can take a walk, do an errand or simply read a book! In addition, small grants may also be available for short-term (temporary) respite--to help fund substitute care so that a stressed family caregiver can get away for a few days. These grants are intended for caregivers who would otherwise find it difficult to afford the respite care--whether at home or a respite stay in a facility.


Caregiver Assessment

Do you provide unpaid care to a family member, friend, or neighbor who has an illness, disability, memory loss, or injury? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are a caregiver! Are you feeling overwhelmed, constantly worried, tired, sad, easily irritated, and/or extremely stressed? You are not alone and there is support available. If you would like to learn more about resources, tools, and supports available for caregivers, please answer the following questions to get connected to the right starting place.

  1. Are you over the age of 18 and caring for an older adult (age 60+)?
  2. Are you over the age of 18 caring for an individual (any age) with Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder (e.g., dementia, traumatic brain injury, mild cognitive impairment, chronic traumatic encephalopathy)?

If you answered yes to either of the questions above, you are eligible for the National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP). The goal of the NFCSP is to support family caregivers so they may continue to carry out their caregiving roles and responsibilities. The program can provide services such as caregiver counseling, information and assistance, caregiver training, respite care (a break from caregiving), and much more. If you would like to learn more about how this program can assist you, please contact Amy Jackson, Caregiver Coordinator at 607-274-5486 or ajackson@tompkins-co.org.

If you answered no to either question above, or you are not interested in learning about the resources available through the NFCSP, there is still help available to you through the Any Care Counts-New York (ACC-NY) Campaign which recognizes and supports the millions of unpaid caregivers across the state. Through ACC-NY you can discover your caregiver intensity score by taking the ARCHANGELS Caregiver Intensity Index (CII). It takes just 2 minutes to complete. You will find out whether you are "in the red", "yellow, or "green", and be connected to trusted resources.

Do you prefer to search resources on your own? Visit the NY Connects Resource Directory. NY Connects links individuals of all ages and their caregivers to long term services and supports and provides one stop access to free, objective, comprehensive information and assistance.


New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) Statewide Partnerships
NYSOFA has engaged in two new partnerships to provide important resources to caregivers.