Making it happen Caring for elderly people

Press, 12 September 1988, Page 14

Making it happen Caring for elderly people

Ageing is a family affair is a six-session course for those caring for elderly people in their own homes or in the community, starting this Wednesday, September 14.

There is no charge for this course, held between 10 a.m. and noon at the Selwyn Centre, 310 Selwyn St, Christchurch. It has been organised by the Methodist Central Mission.

Topics to be covered are stress management, caring for yourself, grief and loss, communication in families, and available community resources. For more details phone Jane Maidment at 666745, SuzAnne Edmonds at 377-899 or the Selwyn Centre at 667-022. Free videos

For the next six weeks, free video afternoons will be held at the Women’s Drop In Centre on the third floor of the Atlantic Market Building in Cathedral Square. These will be on Mondays, starting at 12.30 p.m. Tea and coffee will be provided. All women are welcome. Films to be shown are: Today, “Wedding,” a freewheeling satire on marriage, September 19, “British Rock — the First Wave,” a look at the British rock stars of the 60s, and “Gregory’s Girl,” a touching film about adolescent love and awkwardness; September 26, “Tootsie,” with Dustin Hoffman gaining insights when he poses as a woman in order to get work; October 3, “Flashdance,” about a female welder with a burning ambition to dance; October 10, “East of Eden,” the film that catapulted James Dean to cult status, and

October 17, “Rain,” the Somerset Maugham story of Sadie Thompson.

Parents centre Living with a Preschooler and Starting School are two popular courses being offered by Christchurch Parents Centre this term.

Living with a Preschooler is a five-week course led by a child psychologist, play specialist, and doctor. This begins on Tuesday, September 13, with a repeat starting October 3. Starting School is a three-week course led by infant teachers. This begins today, September 12. Both courses cost $2O per person or $3O a couple. For more details and enrolments phone Lynda at 660-896 or Gwynneth at 585-618. Coping with stress However many stress management courses are offered, the demand will always outstrip the supply. Hagley High School is running a stress management course on Tuesday evenings, beginning September 20, for nine weeks. Led by Dr Bryan Gray, this looks' at the main stress events in people’s lives and teaches stress management techniques. There will be plenty of time to practise these and lots of group support. The cost is $22. For more details phone Bryan Gray at 559-872 and for enrolments phone 793-090. Parenting adoiescents A course for parents to look at adolescence today, and the facts and fiction of parenting starts at Hag-

ley High on Wednesday, September 21. Those who have done this course often comment that they should have come along sooner, and that they now understand and communicate with their teenagers better. This nine-week course will be held in the evenings and costs $22. For more details phone Dr Bryan Gray at 559-872 or for enrolments phone 793090. Caesarian group The Christchurch Caesarian Support Group meets tonight at Hunter Lounge Suites, 4 Riccarton Road, at 7.30 p.m. The guest speaker will be a midwife. The group is for women who have had — or are about to have — a caesarian birth. Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month.' For more information contact Sue at 554-738. After-school care A “mannequin fiesta” to raise money for the Wharenui after school project will be held in Riccarton Mall on September 20, at 7.30 p.m. This has been organised by the Christchurch West Lions Club. Tickets are $8 each and are available from Wharenui School. For more information about the after school project contact Arthur Doidge at 515-140. Get fit for summer Spring into Fitness for Summer is a new tenweek course for women being offered by the Bryndwr Young Men’s Christian Association this term.

This is a good opportunity to shed winter flab,

meet new people, and most of all, do something for yourself.

Other activities offered this term are squash, aerobics, fitness programmes, indoor bowls, badminton, yoga and golf. Activities for children include gymnastics, music and movement, ball skills and co-ordination, short tennis,- trampoline and basketball. For more details phone 598-320 or 596-647. Nurses union Talks on the union medical centre and the breast examination clinic will be the focus of talks at the New Zealand Nurses’ Union general meeting tonight. The speaker will be Mavis Watson, a union health and safety advisor. The meeting will be

held at the Lane Walker Rudkin social club hall at 39 Montreal St, starting at 7.30 p.m. Compiled by GLENYS WALKER. Items for this column must arrive at this office at least ONE WEEK in advance. They can be sent to Glenys Walker, “Making It Happen,” Home and People Page, “The Press,” Private Bag, Christchurch.