Alzheimer’s NJ Caregiver Support Group
- Monthly meetings with convenient early evening schedule
- Care provided to your loved one by WISE Center staff facilitated by WISE Center social workers
- Ongoing mutual support model
- Open to the community
Bereavement Support Group
- Monthly meetings with convenient early evening schedule
- Facilitated by WISE Center social workers
- Mutual support for those anticipating or experiencing loss and grief
- Open to the community
Caregiver Education & Wellness
- Presentations by speakers with expertise and experience in issues of aging and disabilities
- Healthy living topics such as nutrition, stress reduction and integrative medicine
- Active Older Adult Wellness Classes such as Yoga, Tai Chi, Aquatics, Circuit, and Zumba
- Caregiving topics including community resources, financial/legal concerns, end-of-life issues, body mechanics and managing challenging behaviors
- Speakers available for community groups
- Telephone and email support, including information for individual and professional caregivers in the community
- Complimentary family membership to The Gateway Family YMCA for full-time WISE members to support caregiver health and wellness