Parkinson’s support group to start
A support group for people in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers will meet Feb. 15. The group will meet at 11 a.m. the third Thursday of each month at Touchmark at Coffee Creek, 2801 Shortgrass Road in Edmond. The group will focus on living well despite the disease.
For more information, call 340-1975, or go to Touchmark.com.
Hospice facility seeks volunteers
Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care is seeking volunteers interested in providing companionship to terminally ill patients and their families.
Volunteers also can assist in the office, run errands for families or help with planning to make a patient’s “perfect day” a reality. Volunteers must complete training, and wait at least one year after losing an immediate family member.
For more information, email LaBerta.Banker@ crossroadshospice.com or Rachel.Soult@crossroadshospice.com, or call 632-9631.
Class offered for military families
The Oklahoma office of the National Alliance on Mental Illness will offer its Homefront class for family and friends of military members and veterans with mental health conditions.
The class will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesdays Feb. 21 to March 28 at 3812 N Santa Fe, Suite 305.
For more information or to sign up, call 601-8283, or email wendy@namioklahoma.org.
Addiction center names leader
Pam Forducey will be the assistant vice president of Integris Arcadia Trails Center for Addiction Recovery, which will open in 2019. The center is under construction on Integris’ Edmond campus.
Forducey currently works as system director of the Integris eHealth program. She has worked at Integris since 1994, when she took a job as a rehabilitation psychologist.