Your April 2019 AMAC Foundation Newsletter

**November 2019**

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Planning for the January 29 "Aging at Home" Expo Now in Full Swing!

Our "Aging at Home" or "Aging in Place" Expo planning just took a major
step forward with a detailed planning session last week with the great
folks at the Lady Lake Library. You may recall that our specially
focused expo will be complimentary to the Lady Lake Library's annual
Wellness Fair, making the day an opportunity to do "one-stop shopping"
for resources critical to your present and future well-being. We're
pleased to have the opportunity to work alongside our colleagues at the
Lady Lake Library to bring a wealth of valuable information to our
constituents!

We're also getting set to place an ad in local newspapers alerting
vendors and related civic organizations to our January 28 event. This
"Call for Exhibitors" ad will extend an invitation to participate in the
event, and to claim one of the limited number of seminar-type slots to
be available during the Expo. Watch for it in the Villages Daily Sun
soon, or check it out on the foundation's website
soon!

We're pretty excited about offering this Expo, since the concept of
staying put in one's home as long as they can is clearly a preference by
a reported 90% of seniors. This groundswell of interest makes it
essential that we take the lead on helping folks learn what they need to
know, what steps they need to take to achieve this goal, and what
services are available to them as they pursue the peace of mind of aging
at home.

We hope to see you all there on January 29. Keep an eye on our website's
"Events"

page for breaking news on the Expo as details are finalized.

 

"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than
love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh,
and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our
lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at
ourselves and to love one another."

**Theodore Hesburgh**

 

"Smart Home" Workshop Set for November 6

It's a new concept, but one that's rapidly gaining momentum. We're
talking about what many consider to be a natural evolution of what has
become known as the "smart home" or the "connected home." The technology
that has worked its way into our daily lives-ideas like video
doorbells, smart appliances, electronic virtual assistants, and the
like-had as its main thrust the modernization of our living space for
convenience and the broad spectrum of gadget control, and it's now
poised to explode into the realm of aging assistance and health
services. Emerging from this convergence is a new concept many are
calling "assured living," a concept that one of its main
proponents-Richfield, Minnesota's Best Buy Co. Inc-describes as the
use of technology "to help adult children remotely check in on the
health and safety of their aging parents."

This seminar is in many respects a preview of some of the concepts we'll
explore in greater detail at our January 29 "Aging at Home" Expo (see
previous newsletter item). Our November 6 seminar will focus on how
smart home devices and their supporting technologies interact
cooperatively to support an aging population. Whether it's environmental
control, specific device control, or external communication aids, the
objective is to provide an atmosphere of convenience, safety, and
security for a segment of the population projected to encompass 70
million Americans by the year 2030.

Call us at the Foundation office (888-750-2622) or email us at
[email protected] to reserve your
seat!

 

Foundation Teams with AMAC Insurance Professionals to Serve Deaf
Community

On October 8, we conducted a workshop on "Medicare Basics" for The
Villages Deaf Senior Citizens group, and it was a very well attended
session. Our featured speaker for the workshop was AMAC's Scott Kellogg,
a Licensed Medicare Sales Agent and AMAC's Director of Compliance. This
is the second time the Foundation has served this organization, and the
second time we've worked with the aid of a sign language interpreter.

Scott's informative presentation covered a wide variety of specific
topics, from a definition of "Original Medicare" to the evolution of
Medicare Advantage plans, highlighting the differences and specific
provisions of each type of coverage. He also provided an overview of
Prescription Drug Plans under Medicare, as well as the extended
coverages available through Medicare Supplement (Medigap) plans.

**Scott Kellogg in action, with interpreter (left) assisting in message
delivery.**

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