Green Acres Senior Center staffer Daniel Novoa and volunteer Debra Sparkman promote the center’s trips, game room, fitness center and membership opportunities. Photo by Bonnie Hobbs.
Senior Living
The Home for Life Expo was April 4 at Fairfax City’s Sherwood Center.
Photos By Bonnie Hobbs/The Connection
Technology coach Amy Burk of TechWise Coaching teaches technology skills to older adults.
From left, Belen Eshetu and Sonia Gatling, of Independent You, providing seniors with advocacy, home-care services and aging life-care management.
Jane Hughes represents Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, offering post-hospital rehab care, plus respiratory care, inpatient dialysis and memory care.
Representing RAFT (Regional Older Adults Facility Team) are (from left) Caitlin Stauffer, Sara Cochran and Sydney Palinkas. RAFT supports seniors living with dementia and serious mental illness.
Shannon Bishop, of Goodwin Living at Home, an aging-in-place program that provides care coordination and payment.
From left, Chris Cohen and Melissa Pennett promoting Fairfax City community information, activities and transportation options for seniors.
Ginger Hawkins represents the Access Services branch of the Fairfax County Public Library. It provides specially recorded books, magazines and players to Fairfax City and County residents of all ages who are blind, visually impaired or have reading or physical disabilities.
Promoting the City of Fairfax Regional Library’s programs for adults is Gabi Huesca.
From left, Leslie Stefanik and Leyna Batta, of FYZICAL Therapy & Balance Centers, specializing in balance and pelvic-floor therapy.
BGreen Acres Senior Center staffer Daniel Novoa and volunteer Debra Sparkman promote the center’s trips, game room, fitness center and membership opportunities.
Veronique Coker, of Seniors Helping Seniors, which offers in-home care for older adults.
Esther Lee, of nonprofit NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), providing free support groups, education and advocacy for people with mental-health conditions, their family members and the community.
Inside Fairfax City Fire Department’s Life Safety Education Trailer are (from left) Maleka Walters and fire Lt. Jay Davison, both with the City’s Community Response Team. Walters is a community-response clinician with the Department of Human Services, and Davison is a community paramedic. Both demonstrated home safety.