Senior Voice Alaska

22/07/2025

Make a difference in the life of your loved one with dementia.

🧩 Savvy Caregiver: 6-Week Course for Caregivers

🗓 Fridays, August 15 – September 19
🕐 1:00 – 3:00 pm | 📍 1750 Abbott Road, Anchorage

Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia? This in-person course is designed to help family caregivers gain confidence and practical skills.

You'll walk away with:
🧠 Knowledge about Alzheimer’s and related dementias
💡 Insight into how dementia changes the person
🏡 Tips for creating daily routines and activities that work
🗣 Strategies for understanding and responding to behaviors
📝 Tools for making informed care decisions

📌 Registration is required, space is limited!
👉 To register, contact Debbie Chulick:
📧 [email protected] | ☎️ 907-561-3313

To help Alzheimer's Resource of Alaska cover licensing and provider costs, there is a fee for participation. This fee includes access to all 6 weeks of the course including all educational materials.

19/07/2025

AARP is looking for scams that are happening in Alaska. And looking for your help to inform the older population of the state what to look out for.

18/07/2025

A fun event in Soldotna on Saturday. It's Disability Pride!

17/07/2025

Folks who live in Fairview, we hope this news can help you get to the grocery story after the Carrs on Gambell closed.

Fairview Weekend Shuttle Get Involved!Community residents are invited to participate in team building, workshops, networking, and neighborhood projects to m ...

16/07/2025

If you have one of those old Alaska stylebooks and aren't using it anymore, would you donate it to the Senior Voice? We could actually use more than one. Thanks!

This updated and revised edition of "The Associated Press Stylebook for Alaska" is invaluable to journalists, librarians, researchers, and other professionals.

15/07/2025

Looks like a fun event!

Just around the corner!

14/07/2025

Think small? The Soldotna Public Library has a tiny art show just for you. It runs July 28-Aug. 2. Submissions are accepted at the service desk July 21-26.
Anything around 4 inches can be submitted. All ages, abilities, and mediums are welcome. https://soldotna.libcal.com/event/14056251?hs=a

11/07/2025

Congratulations to Maraley McMichael, Sharon McConnell and Michael Dinneen, who all won awards through the National Mature Media Awards, which recognize the nation's best marketing, communications, educational materials and programs for older adults.

11/07/2025

Help the Municipality of Anchorage update its transit plan so it serves the greatest number of people.
All survey respondents will be entered to win one of 10 $25 gift cards.
The survey is located on the project website: aroundanchorage2025.com. The direct link to the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2dF_QbDMjpw5oWnz8TJRnhiGsGEpb4g4OoKPAREkrBBUeCg/viewform

09/07/2025

Two grant application deadlines are July 30.
ACL Alzheimer's Disease Programs Initiative (ADPI) Grant
HHS-2025-ACL-AOA-ADPI-0012

Through the Alzheimer’s Disease Program Initiative (ADPI), Administration on Community Living (ACL) seeks to enhance workforce capacity in the National Aging Network with the inclusion of dementia-capable Community Health Workers (CHWs). CHWs work to improve conditions for health in communities with the highest rates of disease, disability, and death. ADPI supports dementia-capable home and community-based services for people living with dementia and their caregivers. As a result of this initiative, ACL seeks to strengthen relationships with rural and underserved communities and address barriers to care for people living with dementia and their caregivers.

ACL Elder Justice Innovation Grant
HHS-2025-ACL-AOA-EJIG-0023

The goal of the EJIG program is to support the development and advancement of new and emerging issues related to elder justice. Funded projects will contribute to the improvement of the field of elder abuse prevention and intervention at large, such as by developing materials, programs, and so forth that can be widely disseminated and/or replicated, or by establishing and/or contributing to the evidence-base of knowledge.

09/07/2025

We went on a virtual dementia tour at Alzheimer's Resource of Alaska recently, and it was well worth the time. There is one scheduled on July 16. Contact the Alzheimer’s Resource of Alaska in the Mat-Su Valley, 777 N. Crusey Street, Ste. B101, Wasilla. 907-746-3413. It takes about half an hour.

09/07/2025

Frozen in History is a free readers' theater celebrating the Black soldiers who built the Alaska section of the Alaska Highway in 1942. It takes place at 2 p.m. Aug. 23 at the Alaska Veterans Museum, 411 W. Fourth Ave. in Anchorage.