Powerful Tools for Caregivers Begins (PORT CHARLOTTE)

A class for family caregivers

Powerful Tools for Caregivers is a FREE educational program designed to help family caregivers take care of themselves while caring for a friend or relative. You will benefit from this class whether you are helping a parent, a spouse, a friend, someone who lives at home, in a nursing home, or across the country.  Classes will teach you how to:

• Reduce stress associated with caregiving
• Balance your life
• Improve your self-confidence
• Better communicate your feelings
• Increase your ability to make tough caregiving decisions
• Locate helpful resources for caregivers in your community

This class series meets once a week for six weeks. Class size is limited, and registration is required.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers workshops begin Tuesday, May 7 and continues on Tuesdays through June 11 at Port Charlotte United Methodist Church (21075 Quesada Ave.).

To Register:

Advance registration is required.  For more information or to register, please call Sherry Young at the Area Agency on Aging for Southwest Florida’s Elder Helpline at 866-413-5337 (866-41-ELDER) or email sherry.young@aaaswfl.org.

Funding for this program is provided by a grant for disease prevention and health promotion under the 2018 Older Americans Act, Title IIID, through the Florida Department of Elder Affairs.