Columbia Parkinson's Support Group

Meeting Reminder

Date: January 15, 2012

Topic: "What you need to know about Elder Care Law" This meeting will be very informative for Parkinson patients, their caregivers/care partners, and anyone else "regardless" of age. Even if you already have your legal affairs taken care of, you may learn other information that is of interest to you.

Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm With time after the meeting for additional discussion and socialization

Speaker: Sarah L. Clingman, Attorney at Law

Sarah Clingman is a certified specialist in Elder Law, as certified by the National Elder Law Foundation. The firm's practice is limited to Elder Law, including Guardianship & Conservatorship, Estate and Special Needs planning, probate, estate administration, fiduciary administration, and issues impacting the elderly, disabled, and special needs client or a family member. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the South Carolina chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and a past president.

SPECIAL NOTE: Temporary Meeting Room Change for January Only

Use this link http://tinyurl.com/7sb9pv9 to obtain a copy of a map for the Lexington Medical Center.

We suggest that you print out a copy of the LMC map, and then follow the directions below. Come to the North Tower Entrance of LMC Hospital. If you come in at the light where the Emergency Department (a.k.a. ER) is located – you would go to the four way stop, go straight, pass the ER/ED, down the hill and park in either the parking lots "F" or "G" as indicated on the map. Go in the "North Tower Entrance", take the elevators down to the Lower Lever, and go to Classroom 1.

Just in case - The employees/volunteers at the North Tower Entrance -or- at the main hospital entrance will also be able to give you directions. Just tell them that you want to go to the North Tower Entrance and Classroom 1 in the Lower Level of that building.

Don't Forget To Visit Our Website Often - http://www.columbiaparkinsonsupportgroup.org/

Visit our NEWS FOR YOU web page, which has "new" news and information that may be of interest to you http://www.columbiaparkinsonsupportgroup.org/news.htm

The 2012 MEETING & EVENTS CALENDAR web page at
http://www.columbiaparkinsonsupportgroup.or/meet_calendar_2012.htm is updated often with new events, seminars, symposiums, and of course our meeting information.

Please Volunteer - We Need You! Our support group is operated and run by volunteers who are Parkinson patients themselves, caregivers / care partners of Parkinson patients, or people who have an interest in and support Parkinson's disease. We can always use volunteers. Please contact us if you have other experience or skills that you think can be used by our group.

"Thank You" Karen Basso for volunteering to be our Newspaper / Media PR contact.

"Thank You" Bob & Barb Nickel, and Joe Gilbert for volunteering to be greeters at our meetings.

Greeters - We still need additional "greeters", so that the greeters can alternate meetings. At the beginning of our meetings, you would greet meeting attendees at the door, and make people feel welcome, encouraging them to sign-in.

Program Committee Member - Currently Carol and Dottie have been doing the program planning, but we can use some help on the Program Committee. As a member of the program committee, you will have the opportunity to meet some really nice people who have an interest in or interface with the Parkinson's community in many different ways. We already have the year 2012 booked up for speakers, so you will have a "whole year" to work with Dottie and Carol and become familiar planning programs. Ability to send/receive Email is needed. Please note that you won't be doing this by yourself, Dottie and Carol will continue to be involved with the committee.

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