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The program is now in its third year with services provided through the Rehabilitation Services Department.
Incontinence is the loss of urinary control and affects people of all ages. Impairment of the pelvic floor muscles can result in leakage of urine when coughing, sneezing or lifting objects.
Most sufferers are too embarrassed to seek help, but in most cases the pelvic floor can be rehabilitated and function restored.
Frequently cited reasons for not seeking treatment are a belief that incontinence is a normal part of aging or an inevitable result of vaginal childbirth.
This program is an effective treatment option for prostatitis, prostatectomy, pregnancy and postpartum, menopause, aging and elderly, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and cerebrovascular accident.
Individuals who have experienced leaking of urine are reporting a reduction or total elimination of leaking, on average, within three to five visits at Sutter Lakeside Hospital’s Continence program.
Some of these people report a 10-year history of leaking. The program components are simple and practical for individuals of all ages and include lifestyle education, pelvic floor strengthening, breathing exercises and biofeedback.
If you suffer from incontinence or know someone who does, please contact your doctor for a referral. Appointments can be scheduled by contacting the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Outpatient Rehabilitation department at 262-5090.
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Sutter Lakeside Hospital Wellness Center invites you to join them for the next session of their stress reduction and relaxation clinic.
During this eight-week intensive, participants learn how to create new patterns of response to stress, and how to move from being highly reactive to life events to learning how to respond with calmness.
In the small group classroom environment, participants gain support and learn from each other and the curriculum.
Participants will take a health risk assessment and general wellness inventory to assess their current state of mental, emotional and physical well-being. Through the use of diaphragmatic breathing, progressive relaxation, mindful meditation, gentle movement yoga and other strategies, participants will learn how to consciously and healthily cope with life stress.
The program begins Tuesday, April 7. The group will meet from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. twice a week for eight weeks. The program is taught by wellness educator Leslie Lovejoy, Ph.D.
Dr. Lovejoy has provided this program for the past five years at the Wellness Center. The program was highlighted as a best practice in the Sutter Health television program “For Your Health” in 2006.
According to Dr. Lovejoy, “Stress is always a part of our lives and therefore unavoidable, but we can change both how we perceive it and respond to it. In making that change we take back our lives and can regain the richness and joy of living.”
If you want to change your life for the better, this is the class for you!
There is a fee for this program. Scholarships are available. Pre-registration is required by April 3.
To register or for more information, call the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Wellness Center, 707-262-5171, e-mail us at
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To celebrate this event, Kottler will hold a free, outdoor Tai Chi class in the beautiful healing gardens adjacent to the Wellness Center and hospital.
Spectators and Tai Chi enthusiasts are welcome to join in the global health and healing celebration. Internationally, this event begins in New Zealand and will spread time zone by time zone across the globe, through 60 countries and across 6 continents. This creates a “Healing Wave” to promote calm and worldwide wellness.
Tai Chi and Chi Gung (Chi Kung) are health technologies evolved over thousands of years of research in China, and are growing in popularity worldwide. They are used in hospitals, wellness centers, prisons, schools and other institutions.
Research has shown that Tai Chi and Chi Gung may reduce anxiety, depression and chronic pain conditions. These classes boost the immune system, improve respiratory and cardiovascular function, and burn calories. Both have also been proven valuable to dramatically improve balance, offer powerful stress management tools and slow aspects of the aging process.
Join us for World Tai Chi and Chi Gong Day, Saturday, April 25, from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at Sutter Lakeside Hospital’s Wellness Center, 5176 Hill Road East, Lakeport.
Kottler offers weekly Tai Chi classes on Tuesday from 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 pm and 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. and on Thursday from 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. at the Sutter Lakeside Wellness Center.
For more information on World Tai Chi and Chi Gung Day, visit http://worldtaichiday.org or call the Wellness Center at 707-262-5171 or visit Sutter Lakeside Hospital’s website at www.sutterlakeside.org.
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SACRAMENTO – State Sen. Patricia Wiggins (D-Santa Rosa) is co-author of legislation (Assembly Bill 324 and Assembly Joint Resolution 4) that would use the elder Economic Security Standard Index (known as the Elder Index) to provide a better measure of poverty to plan for the needs of California's growing aging population.
Wiggins said that the Elder Index is “a new tool that accurately quantifies the annual cost of meeting basic needs for retired, older adults in each county. “
Assemblyman Jim Beall, Jr. (D – San Jose) is the lead author of AB 324 and AJR 4; Senator Carol Liu (D – Pasadena) is principal co-author.
Wiggins said the measures are needed because policymakers are seeking a more accurate picture of what it really takes to make ends meet in today’s economy.
Lawmakers typically measure poverty and determine benefits eligibility using the Federal Poverty Line (FPL), which is a 1963 measure based solely on the cost of a bare-bones food diet. Although it is updated annually using the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the 2008 FPL is the same dollar amount – $10,400 for an individual living alone – whether one lives in a high- cost market or a low-cost one.
As a result, the FPL vastly understates the real number of people struggling to make ends meet – leaving policymakers with unreliable data and poor planning tools.
“Many seniors fall through the cracks of this faulty system, with too much income to qualify for support, but not enough to cover their most basic human needs,” Wiggins noted.
California leads the nation with the most elders (300,000) living below the FPL, the majority of them women and people of color. An estimated 864,000 California elders do not have enough income to cover their most basic needs (e.g. housing, healthcare, food, transportation), while 677,000 elders living alone or with a partner struggle to survive on incomes above the FPL but below the Elder Index. Public programs (e.g., Food Stamps, Medi-Cal, Medicare subsidies) are failing to help these seniors because eligibility for these programs is based on the FPL.
The U.S. Census Bureau projects that the national population of people age 65 and over is expected to more than double by 2030. California already has the largest percentage of adults age 65 or older in the country (3.5 million). Without an accurate, regional picture of economic needs, local Agencies on Aging cannot adequately plan for the needs of this growing population.
To provide policymakers with a better measure of elders’ needs, AB 324 would:
• Require California Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) to use the Elder Index to determine poverty in preparing their needs assessment and in developing local area plans;
• Require the California Department of Aging (CDA) to include a compilation of the index data in its State area plan;
• Require any new California State needs-based program to use the index, or some percentage thereof, in determining eligibility (this would also apply to any current program that is later modified to become needs-based);
• Require the CDA to annually update the Elder Index for each county of California and annually calculate the number and demographic profile of seniors living below the updated index (less than $60,000 a year).
The second measure – AJR6 – urges the U.S. Congress and President to modernize the Federal Poverty Guidelines to reflect the actual costs to survive in each state and county of the U.S.
Wiggins represents California’s 2nd District, which includes portions or all of Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.
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