Happy Holidays from VNLV and LVCA!

Happy Holidays from VNLV and LVCA

December 4 - 10 is National Influenza Vaccination Week

Visiting Nurses of the Lower Valley wants you to stay healthy for the holidays! Stop by our flu clinic on Wednesday, December 7th from 8am - 5 pm. Bring your insurance card. It’s quick and easy!

December National Health Observances

World AIDS Day: December 1st, 2016
In recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1st, Visiting Nurses of the Lower Valley encourages everyone to get tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In the United States, about 1 in 8 people who have HIV don’t know it.

The only way to know for sure whether or not you have HIV is to get tested. You could have HIV and still feel healthy. Everyone ages 15 to 65 needs to get tested at least once. Some people may need to get tested more often.

Learn more about HIV/AIDS and how to prevent this disease. Around the world, about 37 million people are living with HIV. In the United States, about 44,000 people get infected with HIV every year. World AIDS Day is a global initiative to raise awareness, fight prejudice, and improve education about HIV and AIDS.

For more information, click here.

Older Driver Safety Awareness Week: December 5 - 9, 2016

The American Occupational Therapy Association's (AOTA) Older Driver Safety Awareness Week, aims to promote understanding of the importance of mobility and transportation to ensuring older adults remain active in the community—shopping, working or volunteering—with the confidence that transportation will not be the barrier to strand them at home. For more information, click here.

Is Your Vehicle Prepared for Winter? Don’t get caught unprepared! Click here for helpful tips.

Concierge Services from LVCA

Are you not feeling up to preparing for the Holidays? Let LVCA do all the leg work for you! LVCA offers “Concierge Services”, including gift wrapping, shopping, holiday card mail outs, decoration assistance, holiday housekeeping, and much more. Makes a great gift for anyone who could use an extra hand!

For more information, call 860-767-0186 or click here.

Meet Deborah Ringen, MSN, RN,

Faith Community Nurse

Deborah Ringen MSN, RN, Board Certified Faith Community Nurse and Certified Dementia Practitioner, has over 30 years of experience caring for others. She came to Visiting Nurses of the Lower Valley after returning to Connecticut to be closer to family in 2013. She is grateful to be able to continue her work in faith community nursing with VNLV. Her focus is on caring for the whole person, family and community in accordance with individual values, and beliefs.

Deborah is an advance care planning facilitator and has extensive training in dementia care management she loves to share tips with others. She also teaches Faith Community Nursing.

On the personal side, Deborah enjoys spending time with her husband Alan and their three adult sons, or playing with her golden retriever and puggle friends. She loves cooking and gardening and can be seen tending the flowers at the VNLV entrance.

VNLV's Holiday Food Drive

'Tis the season! It's always the right season to help others.

Join us as we team up with Shoreline Soup Kitchen & Pantries to collect food and other goods to help those in need. VNLV is proud to be a new drop-off location. Please drop off your donations Monday - Friday from 8am - 4pm. It feels GOOD to give.

For a list of other drop off sites and donation suggestions, click here.