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 Welcome!

Are you age 50+?  Planning for a stellar retirement and healthy lifestyle?  Caring for an elderly loved one? This event is for you!

The Live Well Age Well Expo works with local and statewide agencies, businesses and organizations to provide services and information to the boomer and senior generation to enhance life, independence, dignity, choice and individual well being. All proceeds from the event go directly to The Cascades West Senior Services Foundation, which funds essential programs for older adults in Linn, Benton and Lincoln Counties, including Senior Meals/Meals on Wheels, In-Home Care Services and Senior Companion Services.
Great Prizes!  Win a Wii & Wii Fit!
Presentations    Demonstrations
Free Health Screenings
Music    Quilts
Fine Sponsors  Fabulous Vendors

For additional details on each of the programs - scroll down!

OSU School of Pharmacy - back by popular demand!

Brown Bag Medications Consult

Bring your medicines for an evaluation and answers to your questions!

Master Gardeners Demonstration Garden - Open ALL Day!

  Quilt Show  
by Quilts from Caring Hands

 
Since its inception in 1990, QCH has given away over 7000 quilts. In the past few years, QCH has averaged 475+ quilts a year. The primary purpose of Quilts from Caring Hands is to make quilts for children-at-risk - the homeless, those in foster care, drug addicted, HIV positive, visually impaired, abused, as well as infants of teen mothers. Each quilt they make for a child is unique. 

New updates frequently! See you May 18th!

10:00 - 10:30 AM Downsizing and Organizing Your Life with Queen Bee Organizing

10:30 - 11:00 AM Avoiding ID Theft and other threats.  With Linn County Sheriff's office.

11:00 AM - Adult Day Services with Grace Center

12:00 Noon
Samaritan Sleep Center with Dr. Mari Golder
Having trouble sleeping? The Samaritan Sleep Center’s expert staff will discuss common sleep issues for aging adults, including sleep apnea and what you can do to help get a quality night’s rest.

1:00 - 1:30 PM
Samaritan Nutrition Services with Athena Nofziger
Presenting information on healthy eating and nutrition.

2:00 PM Removing the Mystery about Health Care with Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance

Cover Oregon (Oregon's Health Insurance Exchange) - Presenting - Jon McDaid, M.A., Outreach Coordinator, Oregon Department of Human Services.  Health insurance plan options available from Cover Oregon in 2014. 

Oregon's new health insurance exchange known as Cover Oregon is coming. When will it open, can I enroll and will there be assistance to pay for coverage? These questions along with how you can get help enrolling. 

Medicare isn't part of Cover Oregon that will start in 2014. A representative of the Oregon Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance (SHIBA) program will be present to answer any questions related to Medicare.  

*Important: Medicare benefits aren't changing and Cover Oregon won't affect your Medicare choices and your Open Enrollment Period (October 15-December 7) will stay the same. Please be sure not to drop your Medicare coverage. If you have family and friends who don't have health insurance, or want to explore new health plan options, please encourage them to attend this session or they can visit www.coveroregon.com for more information.

2:30 - 3:00 PM Memories:  Where do they begin?  What are they made of?   with Margaret Ingram

The OSU Master Gardeners will be on hand all day fielding questions at their demo garden behind the Expo building.

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Wendy McCoy & The GSD Gang - Welcome Waggers
The Welcome Waggers, a local volunteer therapy dog group, will take the demo stage to discuss and interact with their therapy dogs. They will be talking about the differences between "therapy dogs" and "service dogs", what makes a good therapy dog, training tips, and answering any questions.

10:00 AM Fire Safety at Home - with Albany Fire Department - VISIT THE FIRE Trucks too!

11:00 AM  Albany Oregon International Folk Dancing
with Joyce Holcomb, BA, MS
You are welcome you to join us for folk dancing to a variety of music from around the world, presented by a recreational club that meets for dancing in Albany every Monday night. It is a lot of fun and good exercise too!
No partner necessary. 

12:00 Noon Zumba GOLD with CJ's Dance. 

Zumba® is fun...it's the type of exercise you'll want to do everyday and feel good about doing it! It's different. You probably never thought you'd be exercising to this type of music. It's effective. It is an aerobic workout, which we all know works. But it's more fun, which will make you stick with the program until you get results.

Perfect for those who would just like a little less intense 
workout with all the fun of regular Zumba. A great class for those with injuries, the elderly, those who've been deconditioned. Great for those interested in taking back-to-back classes, too!

1:00 PM
SamFit Exercise Demo
Samaritan Health Services’ 24-hour gym and fitness center, SamFit, will lead a one hour demo on adult exercise, stretching and overall health improvement that you can do in the safety and comfort of your own home. Certified personal trainer and health coach, Kylar Dunn, will lead the group exercise demo. Be sure to ask Kylar how you can get a FREE 1-week membership at SamFit for participating!

Free Health Screenings

• Samaritan will provide Body Mass Index (BMI) Health Screening
• Bring a list of your medications and supplements to get a free medication consultation from Rice's Pharmacy in collaboration with the OSU pharmacy students
• DoorStep Dental Hygiene will offer oral cancer screenings.
• Chiropractic physician, Dr. Kevin Ross, from Advanced Chiropractic Clinic will be performing MyoVision screenings. This screening tool uses surface electromyograpy (sEMG) technology to pinpoint areas of electrical activity in skeletal muscles. Upon completion of this screening, Dr. Ross will explain how chiropractic care may relieve any abnormalities detected in the screening. Participants will receive a print-out of their sEMG reading.
• OSU Pharmacy Students will have information on:
  • Operation Immunization
  • Operation Medication Management
  • Operation Heart
  • Pharmacists for Healthy Living
  • Generation Rx
• NuSkin Antioxidant screening: See how well your supplements are working by measuring how much antioxidant proctection your cells have.A quick non-invasive test...(as seen on Dr Oz). Antioxidants are important for overall health and slowing down the aging process. Limited screenings available.