1. Nature knows what to eat ! Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 1

2. Native People knew what to eat Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 2  New food habits are not traditional…

3. Living with the land Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 3  Nutrition and Exercise...  These are “traditional”

4. … and finding beauty for the spirit Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 4

5. What’s in your fridge? Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 5

6. Health Promotion: Smoking Cessation Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 6  Additional Health habit for Elders to adopt with a very big “pay- off” !!  Quitting Smoking Has  Simply Amazing Benefits ! Maintaining Health ! Preventing Disease ! Controlling Disease ! Saving lives ! Many t housands of lives per year can be saved !

7. Health Promotion: Stress Management & a Holistic Approach Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 7

8. Stress Management Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 8  Control of stress is very difficult sometimes  Demands on caregivers can really stretch their ability to function in all their roles  Requires a “holistic” approach to health…include emotions & spirit  Requires finding best strategies for each person to cope

9. Stress Management Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 9  Caregivers are SOOOO Important to:  Elders  Children  Other Family members  Make the difference!

10. Caregivers are INVALUABLE Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 10 “In order to take care of others, I must take care of myself… and this is ok.”

11. Finding “my space”… Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 11

12. Stress Management Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 12  Maintaining strength for our journeys  Finding the way “I can best do this care-giving”

13. Stress Management Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 13  Expecting problems but…  Creating a network where we can “wait for the clouds to pass”  Social resources  Spiritual resources  Family resources

14. Stress Management Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 14  Creating a support network of resources:  Informational  Economic  Spiritual  Family & Friends  Health Care

15. Stress Management Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 15  “Wowicala”  “Believing”…  Knowing the clouds will pass  Knowing that someone cares  Need to build Community Networks !

16. Health Promotion: It works! Caring for Our Elders: 3.1 Health Promotion for Native Elders 16 For Family Caregivers, Stress management requires a belief: “In order to take care of others, I must take care of myself… and this is ok.”

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