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Gordon Bird here with Beyond the News. This is Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month

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and Hillsboro County Adult Day Services and the Alzheimer's Association are taking the brain Bus

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to the county's Adult Day Services locations during the month of June. Three of

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those events are still going to be taking place. They're going to be there

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on Thursdays between one and four pm. Will go over the locations. In

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a moment. We have Angie Delidovasquez with Hillsborough County Adult Day Services to talk

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with us about it. ANGI welcome in. Thank you, Thank you mister

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Gordon, and thank you to all your audience out there. First of all,

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before we get into what's happening with the brain bus, talk to us

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about Adult Day Services. It's something that I think if you have, if

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you are a caregiver and you have a relative that you're taking care of,

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that's a very important service for those people who live in Hillsborough County. That's

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correct. Adult Day Service is at Hillsborough County. It's different centers in Hillsborough

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County where we can take care your loved ones sixty years and older Monday to

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Friday from eight am to five pm, and we will give them different activity,

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holistic activities to maintain the citizens and active. And it's kind of it's

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not maybe technically respect care, but it is certainly care that gives a respite

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to caregivers who need to do errands or go and work during the day.

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That's correct. It gives them a give the caregiver that opportunity to do different

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business that they have, and then we will take care of their loved ones.

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Now this event then is happening at the adult Day Services centers, So

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your audience is those caregivers and probably you've picked the perfect place to reach them,

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and that is with something called the brain Bus, and you're partnering with

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the Alzheimer's Association on that, and tell us what's going to be going on

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there. I understand that you're going to have experts to answer questions and offer

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information to caregivers, So tell us about that. That's correct. Hillsborough County

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Adult Day Service have partners with the Alzheimer Association to provide information and resources of

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Alzheimer and the mania to the caregivers in recognition of the Alzheimer and Brain Awareness

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Month. The Alzheimer Association brain Bus will visit or for sight in Hillsborough County

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in every adult day service location for the month of June. The public is

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encouraged to attend and receive that information that the Alzheimer's Association will give you,

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and some of them will be the tend warning of sign of alzheimer, the

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talent health habits for brain and steps to keep their actually diagnostic on check all

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the time. And the first one of this week it will be on June

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thirteenth at Plant City and that is at the Adult day Care Center which is

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on Waller Street in Plant City. And then you have a week from Thursday

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the twentieth at the Bloomingdale Adult Day Center on Canoga Park Drive in Brandon,

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and on the twenty seventh at the Wai Mama Adult Day Center on Lagoon Shore

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Boulevard in Waimma. And this is again what you do there every week with

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adult day Services and is a vital service to the community. And you're going

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to be providing a lot of general information. Now they're not going to be diagnosing anything on the brain bus. You're not going to take a family member

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on there and the doctor's going to say, yes, there is dementia,

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Yes, there's Alzheimer's. This is general information, right, That's correct,

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it's general information. The brain bus will help to raise awareness of the alzheimer

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and dementia and the information would be about detection, how to early diagnostic and

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brain held and risks to reduce the Oldzheimer and dementia to our loved ones.

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Well, I'm sure that the service provided by Hillsborough Adult Day Services is valuable

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to caregivers who are dealing with the loved one, particularly one who is up

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in years and need this little bit of respite so they can do the other

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tasks required of a household. And so I'm sure they appreciate it, and

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I'm sure a lot of other counties wish that they had that level of service

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as well. So many thanks and appreciation to you for what your agency does.

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There is Hillsborough County Adult Day Services. I assume you can just go

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to the website. Yes, they can go to the HCFL dot gov for

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slash aging and also they can contact They can contact us at eight one three

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six four four five nine eight five. Let me repeat it again eight one

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three six four four five nine eight five, or go to the website HCFL

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dot Gov for slash aging Angie Toledo, AASCARZ with Hillsborough County Adult Day Services.

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Thank you for joining us on beyond the news. You're welcome