Times-Advocate, 1987-10-14, Page 9Times -Advocate, October 14, 1987
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Legion Auxiliary plan potluck
The Ladies Auxiliary to the K.E.
Pooley Exeter Branch 167 Royal
Canadian Legion held their regular
meeting Monday September 28 with
32 members present.
President Shirley Smith chaired the
meeting.
Marion Frayne won the mystery
prize and Jaso'i Batten the 50/50 draw
for September.
A donation of $160 was made to
South Huron Recreation Centre for
three hours of free public skating.
Sports chairperson Barbara Hearn
reported on Zone Sports. One team
placed first in zone bowling in
Seaforth September 12. One team
fourth in euchre in Wingham
September 19.
Two teams will be participating in
zone cribbage in Brussels and five
teams in zone darts in Clinton Satur-
day October 17.
A zone meeting will be held in
Goderich Tuesday October 20.
A pot luck supper will be held Mon-
day October 26 at 7 p.m. Zone Com-
mander Mary Hawn from Kincardine
will make her official visit.
Ernie Robinson's group served
lunch at the close of the meeting.
WILFRID SHAPTON will be 90 on
Saturday, October 17. He resides at
the Exeter Villa.
HAPPY IN THEIR OWN HOME Dr. Harvey Cowen shares a joke with Town and Country Homemaker
Pat Devine as she pours his wife Dorothy 0 cup of breakfast coffee.
Agency enhances independence
Happy with their Homemakers
-our Homemakers saved our lives
an(1 fire keeping us out of the nursing •
home. They are wonderful", enthus-
ed retired Exeter dentist Dr. Harvey
Cowen about the care he and his wife
Dorothy are receiving from their
Town and Country Homemakers.
• Trained Homemakers of Town and
Country Ilomemakers in Huron Coun-
tv and across the province -will
celebrate more than 50 years of pro-
viding homemaking services to ill.
handicapped -and. frail elderly persons
during the week of October 18 to 2.1.
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which has been proclaimed as
Visiting Homemakers Week by the
provincial government.
The Huron Agency will be marking
its ninth year since,;its inception in
1978. The local agency, which began
with 75 trained homemakers, now
employs more than 200.
"iloinemakers provide services
which enhance the ability of people to
• live independently in their homes",
says Jean Young, executive director
of the Wingham-based Town and
Country Homemakers and chairman
of the Ontario Association of Visiting
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Homemaker Services. "The idea is so
basic that it is often overlooked. The
strength of the Homemaking service
is bound up in the value most people
place on living in a 'home of one's
own', where one can feel independent,
useful and secure."
Dr. Cowen first asked for homecare
to help with his diabetic wife Dorothy,
and for an injury on his leg which
refused to heal. He called the
Homecare office at Huronview, and
a case worker came to assess his
needs. Homecare then contacted
Town and Country Homemakers to
supply the necessary service.
Initially trained homemakers' from
the agency came twice a week, stay-
ing for three hours in the afternoon.
The hours slowly increased as Mrs.
Cowen's condition worsened. When
she returned from a hospital stay, her
husband asked for 24-hour service.
Pat Devine, Goderich, is one of the
Town and Country Homemakers
assigned to the Cowens. Pat has been
a Homemaker for two years, and
loves her job.
"I like people, and working with the
elderly", .Pat said.
Besides preparing meals, doing
laundry. windowcleaning, vacuuming
and other housework, Pat helps Mrs.
Cowen bathe and dress. She is also
part of a team of VON nurses and
physiotherap1Sts who care for Mrs.
Cowen. (Homemakers attend to per-
sonal but not medical needs.)
Pat describes her. relationship with
the Cowens as "like rent-a-
granddai4ghter", explaining thatbe-
ing a Homemaker is not all work.
"We have a great time. We go for
drives, or out to spend the day at Dr.
Cowen's cottage at Grand Bend when
the weather is good.- Dorothy smiles
all the time we are there. We also
spent a few hours at this year's Ex-
eter Fair", Pat said. •
Pat explained that Homemakers fit
in with their clients' lifestyle. They
give help where needed, and foster in-
dependence where clients can
manage for themselves.
Clients' friends and family are en-
couraged to visit.
In providing care for the elderly.
the goal is to allow people to stay in
their own homes, continuing their nor-
mal lives, for as long as possible.
Part of Pat's satisfaction with her
job comes,. from being a Town and
Country Homemaker. She has words
of high praise for the agency, pointing
out their primary concern is the well-
being of their clients. In addition, she
said the agency personnel are
"amenable about hours, easy to talk
to, and treat their Homemakers like
persons as well as employees".
Unlike housekeepers, Homemakers
receive skills training from agency.
and community professionals on
topics such as aging and attitudes,
body mechanics and Alzheimer's
Disease. In addition, a 120 -hour train-
ing program is offered by 19 com-
munity colleges in the province to
enable Homemakers' to give nutri-
tional counselling, home manage-
ment and personal, palliative and
child care. •
'Town and Country Homemakers
take their training at Conestoga Col-
lege at Vanaslra. Pat received. her
Ontario Homemakers Certificate -
and.a place on the honour roll - after
successfully completing the two -days -
a -week, 10 -week course.
Town and Country. Homemakers
will be conducting their annual can-
vass the third week in October. This
year their goal is $40.000. '
Of that amount, $15,000 is
designated for Homemaker training.
$10,000 to subsidize those clients who
qualify for the Homemaker service
but can't afford to pay the total cost.
and $10,000 will be used for alterations
to the Wingham headquarters.
Because of the increase in services
and staff, and the purchase of a com-
puter, the agency is converting the
former ripstairs apartment into addi-
tional office space.
A $69,000 grant froln'lhe Trillium
Foundation (which dispenses the pro-
fits from.provincial lotteries) will be
used to pay part of the $85.000 cost of
purchasing the computer,and accom-
panying software, installing it; and
training personnel in its use. The re-
maining'$5,000 raised from the can-
vass will also.be spent on the com-
puter project.
ORDER OF THE ROSE — Beta Theta Chapter of the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority president Verla
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