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The Aging and Disability Resource Center guided by the Idaho Commission on Aging (ICOA) serves Idaho's seniors and people with disabilities by safeguarding their rights, fostering self-sufficiency, providing counseling, and advocating on their behalf.
To equip assisted living and nursing facility staff with the know-how to prevent and spot the warning signs of elder financial abuse, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers a guide to protecting residents from financial exploitation.
To heighten awareness about lead poisoning prevention, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed Lead in Your Home: A Parent's Reference Guide. The Agency believes this is an essential resource for anyonefrom owners to tenantsconcerned about the dangers of lead in their home and environment. This Guidebook provides Agency recommendations on how you can reduce your familys risk of lead exposure and prevent lead poisoning, ranging from simple steps you can do now to more rigorous procedures that will permanently get rid of lead hazards in your home.
Do you renovate, repair or paint homes or child-occupied facilities built before 1978? If so, you need to know how to work safely with lead-based paint. This guide is designed to help plan for and complete a home renovation, repair or painting
project using lead safe work practices. Lead safe work practices are a group of techniques that reduce the amount of dust produced by renovation activities. When used correctly, they make the work area safer for workers and the home
safe for residents when renovation is complete.
This pamphlet is for you if you:
Reside in a home built before 1978.
Own or Operate a child care facility, including preschools and kindergarten classrooms, built before 1978, or
Have a child under six years of age who attends a child care facility built before 1978.
You will learn:
Did you know that many homes built before 1978 have lead-based paint? Lead from paint, chips, and dust can pose serious health hazards.
Read this entire brochure to learn:
How lead gets into the body
About health effects of lead
What you can do to protect your family
Where to go for more information
Please use the link below to view an all-encompassing Internet Safety Guide for Seniors, which includes information on how to protect your computer, avoid common scams, how to recognize legitimate websites, and how to safely purchase items and use online banking and social media. This guide also includes information on what to do if your data has been breached.
This brochure provides information on different ways to manage decision-making as we age.
The Aging Safely website provides information regarding elder abuse and legal support, free online legal financial forms, and personal and internet safety forms.
For more information, please visit: https://agingsafely.us/.
Ageing Safely has developed the following three forms to help with consumer law issues or issues dealing with money and debt:
Letter to a creditor to request debt forgiveness when a bill is owed
Letter to a creditor to dispute a charge from a bank or company
Letter to a credit bureau to dispute an item on a credit report
Please visit Ageing Safely's website for links to these interactive forms: https://agingsafely.us/free-forms/.
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