Laguna Woods Village Fall Prevention Programs
Falls are the key causes of fatal injuries and are the most common cause of hospital admissions among senior citizens. One in four Americans age 65 and over fall each year, according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, every 11 seconds, an older adult is treated in an emergency room for a fall. Further, a recent review of ambulance calls to Saddleback Medical Center involving Village Residents during the past four months revealed that 50% were the result of a fall.
The Foundation of Laguna Woods Village has partnered with the Laguna Woods Social Services Division and MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center to implement a fall-prevention program designed to increase Resident awareness and the availability of fall-prevention services.
Classes will focus on fall prevention topics, including sit-to-stand instruction, dynamic standing exercises, fall recovery and more. See below for dates and times for workshop presentation and class schedules.
For more information about the program or the ongoing program to provide medical alerts for fall-prone individuals with limited financial means, contact Social Services at 949-597-4267 or the foundation at 949-268-2246 or thefoundation@comline.com.
Balance and Fall Prevention Workshop Presentations
Clubhouse 7 from 2:30 to 4 p.m., August 28*
No registration required
Speaker Ashley Balaker, MD, is board certified in otolaryngology/head and neck surgery and is a subspecialist in otology/neurotology. She is an honors graduate of University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics. She completed her residency in otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at UCLA and completed a two-year subspecialty fellowship in otology/neurotology and skull base surgery at the California Ear Institute in Palo Alto, California.
Balance and Fall Prevention Eight-Week Class Series
Fridays, 1 to 2 p.m.
Clubhouse 5 Fitness Room
Four classes (September to October, January to February, March to April and May to June), each with eight sessions
To enroll in the eight-week class series, visit memorialcare.org/LWFallPrevention or call 800-636-6742.
The Future Of Growing Old Ken Dychtwald
Ken Dychtwald talks about the future of aging and a world where 100+ year old people is the norm.
San Francisco Almost Forgotten All-Girl Band The Ace of Cups
FEEL GOOD Ace of Cups
BASIC HUMAN NEEDS Wavy Gravy and Ace of Cups
This incredible music video was a surprise gift by the amazing Denise Kaufman and her band Ace of Cups to Wavy Gravy for his 80th Birthday. They recorded him singing his song Basic Human Needs and, guided by their producer Dan Shea, created a beautiful musical track to support this song. Their backing vocals, with the addition of some wonderful gospel singers, uplift Wavy’s heartfelt singing.
Basic Human Needs
(A Song for One String by Wavy Gravy)
Wouldn’t it be neat
if the people that you meet
had shoes upon their feet
and something to eat?
And wouldn’t it be fine
if all humankind
had shelter?
Wouldn’t it be grand
if we all lent a hand
so each one could stand
on a free piece of land?
And wouldn’t it be thrilling
if folks stopped their killing
and started in tilling the land?
Chorus:
Basic Human Needs
Basic Human Deeds
Doin’ What Comes Naturally.
Down in the Garden
Where No One Is Apart
Deep Down in the Garden
The Garden of Your Heart.
Wouldn’t it be daring
if folks started sharing
instead of comparing
what each other was wearing?
And wouldn’t it be swell
if people didn’t sell
their mother earth?
Bridge:
Not just churches,
not just steeples,
give me people helping people.
Not just churches,
not just steeples,
give me people helping people
give me people helping people.
City of Hope
City of Hope to Bring World-Class Research and Treatment to City with Announcement of New Irvine-based Cancer Center
IRVINE, Calif. (June 25, 2019): The City of Irvine applauded today’s announcement by City of Hope to invest more than $1 billion to develop a world-class cancer research and treatment campus at FivePoint Gateway, adjacent to the Orange County Great Park approximately one mile to Laguna Woods Village.
The cancer campus, on approximately 11 acres of land, will include an existing 190,000 square-foot building and a first-of-its-kind specialty hospital dedicated solely to treating and curing cancer. This campus will provide much-needed personalized care, innovative research and lifesaving treatments as early as 2021. The City of Hope project will be an anchor to a larger healthcare and wellness campus developed by FivePoint.
“Having experienced the fight against cancer in my own life and survived, I’m particularly excited by today’s news because it continues Irvine’s reputation as one of the most innovative cities in the country for education, recreation, business and healthcare,” said City of Irvine Mayor Christina Shea. “With the introduction of City of Hope, we add yet another dimension to the progress and development we’re seeing at the Great Park in partnership with FivePoint.”
Emile Haddad, Chairman and CEO of FivePoint, echoed the importance of the expanding partnership between the City of Irvine and FivePoint to finally bring the elements of the Great Park together.
“It takes the public and private sectors working together to make the vision of creating a world-class metropolitan park with life-enriching amenities a reality,” Haddad said. “Together we have expanded the best-in-class schools, trails, sports facilities and a live outdoor music venue to Irvine. And now we have the privilege of bringing the highest level of expertise and standard of care to battle cancer.”
The City of Hope is eager to work with both the City of Irvine and FivePoint to deliver the vision of equal access of specialized cancer research and treatment in the region.
“We’re excited to bring our highly specialized cancer care, phase I-III clinical trials, and precision medicine and early detection to Irvine and to the greater Orange County community,” said Annette Walker, president of City of Hope Orange County. “Committed partners like the City of Irvine and FivePoint will help us to deliver on our mission of treating and curing cancer. Irvine is the epicenter of innovation in the county and City of Hope will bring even more medical innovation to the area, strengthening Orange County’s status as a leader for technology and world-changing ideas.”
Recent milestones through a public-private partnership between the City of Irvine and FivePoint include:
- Great Park Trails, a nearly 1.5-mile trail, children’s park and natural landscape introduced in May that connects surrounding communities into the Orange County Great Park;
- A multi-sports complex approximately twice the size of Disneyland that includes soccer, baseball, softball and flex fields, volleyball, basketball, tennis courts, and championship stadiums;
- A 12,000-seat FivePoint Amphitheatre venue for live music operated by Live Nation;
- Two K-8 schools and one high school to complement Irvine’s nationally-renowned school district;
- FivePoint Arena at Great Park Ice, one of the nation’s largest and most state-of-the-art complexes for hockey, figure skating and other ice sports financed by an affiliate of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks.
Tour Laguna Woods Village
Docent Tours are offered by the Golden Rain Foundation (homeowners association property management company) which covers information on amenities, activities and an overview of the property. The majority of the tour is on a bus with three stops at noted favorite facilities which include the Library/History Center, Clubhouse 4 and Restaurant 19. There will be some walking and standing.
While the docent bus tour gives a great overview of the Laguna Woods Village community and it’s amenities they do not show private residences, if your interested in scheduling a tour of some private residences after the initial docent bus tour email: sam@activeolderadults.com
Bus Tour Overview:
Schedule a Community Bus Tour
Tour Highlights
Woodstock 2019
The Old Pros “Old Tyme Radio Theatre”
The Old Pros are channeling in three radio broadcasts from the ‘40s and ‘50s, including “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” to live action at the Laguna Woods Performing Arts Center.
Using a mix of acting, radio script, music and live and recorded sounds, the two-hour show will feature “The Bickersons,” a comedy in which a high-strung woman wakes her husband to complain about his snoring, and “The Great Gildersleeve,” another comedy in which a character seeks distraction from doing income taxes. “The Day the Earth Stood Still” finishes the show, a radio dramatization of the sci-fi movie in which an alien visits the planet and warns humans against war.
Audiences will be able to not only watch their favorite radio broadcasts come to life on stage, but also watch the live sound effects using the methods radio shows did back in the day.
“We try to do as many live sounds as possible,” John Perak, director of “The Bickersons,” said. “This is the way that shows were done in the ‘30s and the ‘40s.”
Ben Holtman directs “The Great Gildersleeve” and Carol Shallin directs “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”
As actors perform the shows reading from broadcast scripts reworked to fit the stage, the live-and-recorded sound performers will work from the side of the stage so audiences can watch how the process works.
Eveline Hoffman, 80, is one of the sound performers who uses props such as tea pots and fake doors to add sound to the show.
“We do the sound effects so when you were listening to a radio show in the olden days, in the ‘50s or ‘40s, you heard everything, so your imagination was there,” Hoffman said. “We let you see what you were hearing in those days — that’s why it’s called the live radio show — the sound is as important as the speakers.”
The mix of sound performance and acting complement each other, like how a frame does with a painting, Hoffman added.
John Kelsall, who plays the alien in “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” has never done a radio show on this level before and said it can be a challenge at times.
“What is unique is you have to make sure that you’re not only listening for your key sounds and trigger points from other actors, which is usually a line, and now you have to look for time for the sound to get in — the timing is the whole thing,” Kelsall, 67, said.
Johnnie Leveque, 72, worked 40 years in sound for Hollywood and is the conductor of the sound orchestra throughout ‘“Old Tyme Radio Theater.” Having worked such films as “The Fugitive” and “Under Siege,” Leveque has won several awards and emphasizes the importance of sound.
“It’s absolutely necessary with the visuals so great, the sound has to equal the visuals,” Leveque said.
Perak, 77, said audiences can look forward to the nostalgia of the radio era, when television didn’t exist and children used their imagination to entertain themselves.
“I think people can look forward to the nostalgia of remembering when they were younger and listening to the radio,” Perak said. “I grew up in that era — we didn’t have television until I was 10. I remember listening to the radio, and I love radio because it (has more emotion) and you have to use your imagination.”