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PKS Council on Aging Meeting Minutes – May 2025

PKS Council on Aging May 2025 meeting

Written by

Cindy Schersching, PhD

in

May 13, 2025
10:30 a.m.
PKS Town Hall

Call to Order: Cindy Schersching

Agenda

Old Business

  • Continue to focus on updating/adding to service and medical professional lists for currency and accuracy in order to be on and promoted on our website. This is important as these lists are unique to us, PKS has established a link to us, and Shoreline pages are being reduced. Who will help?
  • Continue the discussion of Time Banking. Kathy Driver to present information on software requirements.

New Business

  • We are hosting two upcoming forums. Confirm these will be videotaped and refreshments served. Attendance is not limited to PKS. Event notices appear on our FB page; please share them on your FB pages. We want great attendance.
    • May 15 – Caregiving
    • June 9 – Dementia
  • John Clarke will be doing 1 minute videos of Police and Fire programs that are offered to the community. Need to confirm dates for filming.
  • Expanding our exercise options is still an option. What classes should we focus on?
  • Our survey…call for ideas/questions.
  • What else should we be doing?

Minutes

Old Business

  • Help needed to expand benefits to the community and status of new opportunities for the group to engage more people. Our list of recommended service people and medical professionals is unique and underutilized. Let’s focus on updating/adding to these lists in 2025, raising awareness they exist, and getting/publicizing feedback.
  • It’s been 1 – 1.5 years since we put these lists together. We need to review them for accuracy and update the information before they can be published and promoted on our website. This is an ongoing request.
  • Continue the discussion of Time Banking when Kathy Driver is available to provide more information on software requirements.

New Business

  • Linda Langheld presented a forum on Caregiving. It was very well attended and she shared valuable, practical information.
  • In June, we have January Brown from the Eastern Carolina Council; her responsibilities include Coordinator for the Area Agency on Aging (ECC-AAA). Ms. Brown will present a forum on dementia. Her experience, expertise, and tools speak to how sensory inputs are perceived by individuals with dementia. She will share her knowledge on the best ways to work with and relate to this group.
  • We have been asked to Zoom specific forums. Since the COSA doesn’t have a Zoom account, we would be limited to only 45 minutes. While the Town also doesn’t have a Zoom account we could borrow, it does have a means to transmit the forum. Missy spoke to John Clarke about how we could utilize this tool.
  • Promoting our website. The website for the Town of Pine Knoll Shores and the Council on Successful Aging are now linked.
  • Council members assisted the Easter Bunny in filling eggs with candy for the Easter Egg roll at Garner Park this year. Many thanks to all of the volunteers.
  • With new management, Hotel Alice is being dropped from our partnership list. They appear to have little interest in maintaining a relationship with us. John Macheca has reached out to the Mexican restaurant Nacho’s in Atlantic Beach Station who are interested in being a gathering place for us. John will keep us informed as this relationship develops.
  • A survey of PKS seniors is being developed. Everyone is encouraged to contribute their ideas/questions.

Our next meeting is June 10, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. in the Betty Carr Room of the A.C. Hall Municipal Building.

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