Lexington Veterans Affairs Healthcare System will host the second annual Caregiver and Family Resource Fair Friday, November 15th in the Sousley campus auditorium. Jill Smith is the Lexington VA’s caregiver support program manager. She said about 25 internal and external vendors will be there to explain how they can help people looking after veterans – and there’ll be immediate help for vets themselves.
“We'll have a nurse on hand who will be able to provide flu and COVID vaccines to veterans who happen to come to the resource fair with their caregivers, and so that will be an easy, quick way to get vaccinated.”
The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Smith said there’ll also be a demonstration of how it can feel to have a mind-altering, incurable disease.
“There's a little area where we have a speech pathologist who provides some activities to help folks experience what it may be like to experience dementia. And that's a really eye-opening little activity.”
At last year’s fair, a woman who spoke with WEKU was in tears as she described the difficulties of caring for her husband. A few days later, she said she was very glad she went.
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