Lighthouse Center for Vital Living

Adults 65+ now have access to an additional dose of the updated (2023-2024) COVID-19 vaccine. Updated COVID-19 vaccines are available through your provider, at many retail pharmacies and community vaccine clinics. Call us for more information: 218.624.4828

Lighthouse Center for Vital Living Helping people challenged by disabilities, vision loss, and aging to live vital lives.

Have a Paxlovid prescription to treat COVID-19? The PAXCESS program provides free or low-cost Paxlovid, whether you have public insurance (Medicare, Medicaid), private insurance, or even no insurance at all. Enroll with your prescription: https://paxlovid.iassist.com or by calling 877-219-7225

Join us at Community Connect, a free event on Wednesday, May 22, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Hibbing Memorial Arena! Your community is here to offer a helping hand and connect you with a range of services and resources to enhance well-being.

Don’t hesitate to attend or encourage someone you know who might benefit from these services. Let’s stand together as a community and make a difference!

The Alzheimer's Association MN-ND Chapter will hold a no-fee virtual education series on Thursdays in June from noon to 1 p.m. Topics include Healthy Living for Your Brain & Body, Understanding Alzheimer's & Dementia, The 10 Warning Signs, and Effective Communication Strategies. Sign up at https://www.alz.org/mnnd/helping_you/calendar.

CDC (Centers For Disease Control) provides social connectedness resources to help people foster relationships that give them a sense of belonging, support, and care.

Social Connectedness High-quality relationships can help people live longer, healthier lives.

Lighthouse will be providing covid and flu vaccinations at this event. See you there!

Sign Up Soon for 23rd Veteran Iron Range Recon

United Way of Northeastern Minnesota was proud to host 23rd Veteran at our building this spring to answer questions from Iron Range veterans and their family members about their Iron Range Recon program.

For the first time ever, the unique free 14 week full-exposure holistic program is being offered on the Iron Range. Apply or nominate a local veteran soon; orientation is June 22nd!

Find out more about both this 23rd Veterans program and the United Way- United for Veterans Program at our Veteran Resource Fair on Thursday, May16th at the Minnesota North Hibbing Campus/ Hibbing Community College from 1-4p.

Did you know people with disabilities face health inequities and disparities that can have long lasting impacts? Join us at Learning Days May 16 in St. Cloud and where Melissa Winger, the mother of a son with significant intellectual disabilities and multiple chronic conditions, will share how people with disabilities face barriers to access to health care and ways to remove those barriers. https://bit.ly/4auwlqq

Residents of Faith Haven Apartments - join us Wednesdays in the library for gentle yoga and meditation!

Get connected! Join us for Helpful Tech & Tools for Dementia Support - a no-cost virtual presentation on June 12 at 11 a.m. Learn how caregivers and people living with dementia can use technology to increase confidence, safety and independence.

ND Assistive and Lighthouse Center for Vital Living will demonstrate technology devices, share tips and answer questions. Register at bit.ly/HelpfulTechandTools.

Join us at the 4th Annual Beyond The Yellow Ribbon Veteran Information & Resource Fair!
At the Hibbing College Campus Thursday, May 16, 2024 in the commons from 1-4p
Minnesota North College - Hibbing Campus, 1515 E 25th St, Hibbing, MN 55746, USA
DAV National Service Officers will be there for filing claims and presenting a Benefits Seminar.
Last year we had nearly 40 providers of veteran related resources!
Lighthouse Center for Vital Living will be providing flu and covid vaccines.

For more information email: [email protected]

Memory Cafe will be postponed today, we are looking into changing venues, update to follow soon!

Calling all caregivers! Check out this workshop starting on Monday!

On April 27th, Lighthouse will be tabling at the Disability Visibility event at Duluth Public Library, stop down to say hello and check out the amazing workshops available!

People aged 65 years and older who received one dose of any updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine (Moderna, Pfizer or Novavax) should receive one additional dose of an updated COVID-19 vaccine at least four months after the previous updated dose.

Learn more: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/vaccine/index.html

Come say Hello and learn about our services at the Arrowhead Home and Builder's Show held at the DECC this weekend! We are on the second floor in the ballroom. See you there!

Twin Ports, Carlton memory care events offer respite, reminiscing Memory Cafes feature structured activities and socializing for caregivers and care recipients.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/vaccines-cut-risk-post-covid-heart-failure-blood-clots-least-6-months-data-suggest

Vaccines cut risk of post-COVID heart failure, blood clots for at least 6 months, data suggest A large European study published in Heart suggests that COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of heart failure and blood clots in veins or arteries for at least 6 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection.