The Caregiver's Compass: Helping Caregivers Navigate with Confidence
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Memory Cafe
MoreA welcoming social gathering for adults experiencing early-stage Alzheimer’s, dementia, or memory loss and their care partners, with an optional activity and visits from registered therapy dogs.
A welcoming social gathering for adults experiencing early-stage Alzheimer’s, dementia, or memory loss and their care partners, with an optional activity and visits from registered therapy dogs.
A welcoming social gathering for adults experiencing early-stage Alzheimer’s, dementia, or memory loss and their care partners, with an optional activity and visits from registered therapy dogs.
A supportive gathering for adult caregivers to connect around the practical and emotional challenges of caring for others. Share understanding and find peer connection in a welcoming public library setting.
A supportive gathering for adult caregivers to connect around the practical and emotional challenges of caring for others. Share understanding and find peer connection in a welcoming public library setting.
A supportive gathering for adult caregivers to connect around the practical and emotional challenges of caring for others. Share understanding and find peer connection in a welcoming public library setting.
Share festive holiday songs and memories, enjoy light refreshments, and make cheerful crafts to keep or give as gifts. Designed for people living with dementia and their care partners.
Share festive holiday songs and memories, enjoy light refreshments, and make cheerful crafts to keep or give as gifts. Designed for people living with dementia and their care partners.
Share festive holiday songs and memories, enjoy light refreshments, and make cheerful crafts to keep or give as gifts. Designed for people living with dementia and their care partners.
Learn to interpret and prepare wills, durable and health care powers of attorney, and other support documents. The presentation emphasizes informed decision-making, personal rights, and planning for future needs.
Learn to interpret and prepare wills, durable and health care powers of attorney, and other support documents. The presentation emphasizes informed decision-making, personal rights, and planning for future needs.
Learn to interpret and prepare wills, durable and health care powers of attorney, and other support documents. The presentation emphasizes informed decision-making, personal rights, and planning for future needs.
Creative crafts, refreshments, and familiar singalongs celebrate Carl Sandburg’s local legacy in a welcoming gathering for people living with dementia and their care partners. Registration is required.
Creative crafts, refreshments, and familiar singalongs celebrate Carl Sandburg’s local legacy in a welcoming gathering for people living with dementia and their care partners. Registration is required.
Creative crafts, refreshments, and familiar singalongs celebrate Carl Sandburg’s local legacy in a welcoming gathering for people living with dementia and their care partners. Registration is required.
A peer support gathering for people living with dementia and loved ones navigating caregiving, connection, and shared experience. Twice-monthly meetings offer space for mutual understanding in Candler.
A peer support gathering for people living with dementia and loved ones navigating caregiving, connection, and shared experience. Twice-monthly meetings offer space for mutual understanding in Candler.
A peer support gathering for people living with dementia and loved ones navigating caregiving, connection, and shared experience. Twice-monthly meetings offer space for mutual understanding in Candler.
Library Tour
MoreA staff-led, behind-the-scenes walk through the library with insider tips on services, spaces, and hidden resources. Ideal for newcomers and longtime patrons looking to navigate catalogs, programs, and perks more effectively.
A staff-led, behind-the-scenes walk through the library with insider tips on services, spaces, and hidden resources. Ideal for newcomers and longtime patrons looking to navigate catalogs, programs, and perks more effectively.
A staff-led, behind-the-scenes walk through the library with insider tips on services, spaces, and hidden resources. Ideal for newcomers and longtime patrons looking to navigate catalogs, programs, and perks more effectively.
Memoir writing students share personal stories in a public reading at the library. The all-ages gathering offers a welcoming opportunity to listen to emerging personal narratives and connect through storytelling.
Memoir writing students share personal stories in a public reading at the library. The all-ages gathering offers a welcoming opportunity to listen to emerging personal narratives and connect through storytelling.
Memoir writing students share personal stories in a public reading at the library. The all-ages gathering offers a welcoming opportunity to listen to emerging personal narratives and connect through storytelling.
Library Tour
MoreExplore behind-the-scenes library spaces while staff share little-known features, practical tips, and ways to make the most of library resources. A welcoming one-hour orientation for newcomers and longtime readers alike.
Explore behind-the-scenes library spaces while staff share little-known features, practical tips, and ways to make the most of library resources. A welcoming one-hour orientation for newcomers and longtime readers alike.
Explore behind-the-scenes library spaces while staff share little-known features, practical tips, and ways to make the most of library resources. A welcoming one-hour orientation for newcomers and longtime readers alike.
Browse free fresh produce and other healthy foods at a welcoming monthly mobile market. Bring reusable bags and discover resources that support nutritious eating and healthier lifestyles.
Browse free fresh produce and other healthy foods at a welcoming monthly mobile market. Bring reusable bags and discover resources that support nutritious eating and healthier lifestyles.
Browse free fresh produce and other healthy foods at a welcoming monthly mobile market. Bring reusable bags and discover resources that support nutritious eating and healthier lifestyles.
Develop personal stories through an eight-week Thursday writing course focused on memoir craft, reflection, and shaping lived experience into compelling narratives in a supportive library setting.
Develop personal stories through an eight-week Thursday writing course focused on memoir craft, reflection, and shaping lived experience into compelling narratives in a supportive library setting.
Develop personal stories through an eight-week Thursday writing course focused on memoir craft, reflection, and shaping lived experience into compelling narratives in a supportive library setting.
Learn somatic mobility techniques designed to improve voluntary muscle control, ease tremors and stiffness, and build balance and coordination for people living with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, or dystonia.
Learn somatic mobility techniques designed to improve voluntary muscle control, ease tremors and stiffness, and build balance and coordination for people living with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, or dystonia.
Learn somatic mobility techniques designed to improve voluntary muscle control, ease tremors and stiffness, and build balance and coordination for people living with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, or dystonia.
A peer support gathering for adult family caregivers to share experiences, connect with others navigating caregiving responsibilities, and find community support in a public library setting.
A peer support gathering for adult family caregivers to share experiences, connect with others navigating caregiving responsibilities, and find community support in a public library setting.
A peer support gathering for adult family caregivers to share experiences, connect with others navigating caregiving responsibilities, and find community support in a public library setting.
Build strong passwords, secure accounts and devices, and recognize common online threats in a practical adult learning session on internet safety, privacy, and everyday cybersecurity habits.
Build strong passwords, secure accounts and devices, and recognize common online threats in a practical adult learning session on internet safety, privacy, and everyday cybersecurity habits.
Build strong passwords, secure accounts and devices, and recognize common online threats in a practical adult learning session on internet safety, privacy, and everyday cybersecurity habits.
Discuss Ron Rash’s historical fiction alongside questions of North Carolina history, culture, and identity. The statewide reading program invites conversation about racial, social, and gender equity and building a more inclusive society.
Discuss Ron Rash’s historical fiction alongside questions of North Carolina history, culture, and identity. The statewide reading program invites conversation about racial, social, and gender equity and building a more inclusive society.
Discuss Ron Rash’s historical fiction alongside questions of North Carolina history, culture, and identity. The statewide reading program invites conversation about racial, social, and gender equity and building a more inclusive society.
Practical sleep education explores common causes of insomnia and restless nights, with strategies for falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking rested, led by a clinical herbalist.
Practical sleep education explores common causes of insomnia and restless nights, with strategies for falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking rested, led by a clinical herbalist.
Practical sleep education explores common causes of insomnia and restless nights, with strategies for falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking rested, led by a clinical herbalist.
Develop personal narratives and life stories through an eight-week memoir writing course for adults, with weekly Thursday sessions focused on reflective writing and storytelling.
Develop personal narratives and life stories through an eight-week memoir writing course for adults, with weekly Thursday sessions focused on reflective writing and storytelling.
Develop personal narratives and life stories through an eight-week memoir writing course for adults, with weekly Thursday sessions focused on reflective writing and storytelling.
Explore strategies for distinguishing ancestors who share the same name through a recorded genealogy lesson and group discussion with adult family history researchers in a collaborative monthly study session.
Explore strategies for distinguishing ancestors who share the same name through a recorded genealogy lesson and group discussion with adult family history researchers in a collaborative monthly study session.
Explore strategies for distinguishing ancestors who share the same name through a recorded genealogy lesson and group discussion with adult family history researchers in a collaborative monthly study session.
Share children’s stories, songs, and movement that nurture early and emergent literacy for babies through preschoolers. Stay for a themed craft with parents and caregivers.
Share children’s stories, songs, and movement that nurture early and emergent literacy for babies through preschoolers. Stay for a themed craft with parents and caregivers.
Share children’s stories, songs, and movement that nurture early and emergent literacy for babies through preschoolers. Stay for a themed craft with parents and caregivers.
Get practical employment guidance from an NC Works career advisor, with access to public computers for job-seeking tasks during a convenient midday drop-in for adults.
Get practical employment guidance from an NC Works career advisor, with access to public computers for job-seeking tasks during a convenient midday drop-in for adults.
Get practical employment guidance from an NC Works career advisor, with access to public computers for job-seeking tasks during a convenient midday drop-in for adults.