Dear Friends & Supporters:
With the holiday season upon us, we have much to celebrate at Wise & Healthy Aging! Your generosity has enabled us to continue providing the wide range of services that we are known for - touching more than 30,000 older adults’ lives each year.
Maurice Jordan and his wife Tessie are two of those individuals, with both benefiting from the services of our Adult Day Center – Maurice, a working caregiver and Tessie, a beloved client who began struggling with memory loss in 2017. Like most people, the realization that his wife was having serious memory problems came slowly. Then in 2019, Tessie was diagnosed with dementia and by the time Maurice had reckoned with the fact that he needed help to take care of her, the pandemic struck.
Thankfully, a long-time friend told Maurice about WISE, and in June 2021 he brought Tessie to what she now refers to as her “Country Club”. The Adult Day Center provides a safe, stimulating and fun place for Tessie and allows Maurice to continue working.
For more than 50 years, older adults have been coming to us to find the care and support they need. Whether it’s needing the services of our Adult Day Center, social activities, classes and hot lunches through our Club, care management to remain in their homes, or advocacy through our Ombudsman program to investigate and help prevent elder abuse, WISE has impacted many lives this past year.
