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ACI~C SERVICES FACILITY <br /> Cabsrrus County Council on Aging representing ]eadership from over <br /> sixty-six senior clubs, as veil as individual membership, voted <br /> unanimously in favor of establishing a facility to coordinate service for <br /> older adults of Cabarrus County. As charged by the county commissioners <br /> the Senior Citizens Advisory Council researched and nov finds Cabarrus <br /> County needs a facility to house services and/or activities for Its older <br /> adult population. In order to enhance the Office of Aging's ability to <br /> develop the extension of service, a facility is needed to better equip <br />.... volunteers in the provision of these services then they return to their <br /> home communities. Once in their home communities, the volunteers are <br /> better equipped to utilize church fellovship halls, coramunity buildings, <br /> and other places there residents in the community congregate. In the <br /> eighty counties nov providing a focal point for aging services, a similar <br /> facility is employed. On the state and national level, focal point <br /> facilities/comprehensive senior centers are used to coordinate and <br /> collocate a vide range of services sueh as those currently provided in <br /> Cabarrus Office of Aging Services, as veil es activities such ss physical <br /> fitness, adult basic education, training volunteers, hygiene and <br /> nutrition, crafts and socializing. The vellness concept is spread into <br /> individual communities vhere they are enjoyed and spprecfated not only by <br /> the participants, but by friends and relatives ss vel1. Presently, <br /> three-eighths of the potential population that vould benefit from such a <br /> facility ia being involved in a limited service system. The facility <br /> could enhance and increase this portion. The effectiveness of the eighty <br /> volunteers and tventy-one staff membero could be extended through use of <br /> 'pyramid-contract% having the recipient of these services involve others <br /> in his/her o~n community, <br /> <br /> <br />