Senior Life Improvement Program

Senior Adults often face unique emotional problems that can make life abnormally difficult. 
Some of these problems may include:

  • Difficulty coping with change
  • Trouble adjusting to retirement
  • Deterioration of daily living skills
  • Loneliness and isolation
  • Crying spells and/or explosive anger
  • Debilitating problems with grief and loss
  • Feelings of anxiety and depression
  • Adjusting to declining physical health
  • Negative changes in eating and sleeping habits
  • Strained family relationships
  • A strong sense of hopelessness often accompanied by suicidal thinking

The Senior Life Improvement Program offers:

  • Individual counseling
  • Individualized group therapy with other senior adults struggling with similar issues
  • Family therapy
  • Regular communication with family members and physicians
  • A psychiatrist that supervises the care of each patient with the assistance of a nurse, a psych tech and licensed clinical social workers
  • A nutritious meal and snack each day
  • Transportation assistance available

Please call the Senior Life Improvement Program today to receive more information or to schedule a confidential assessment at (863) 491-4309.  All initial screenings are complimentary.  The cost of the program is covered by Medicare and most secondary insurances. 

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Tobacco
Cessation
Program

Thinking about
Quitting Tobacco

but you're unsure
how? DeSoto
Memorial Hospital
can help!

Free tobacco
cessation classes
are held at DMH.
Both day and 
evening classes
are offered.Once you
complete the one
time 2 hr class you
will receive free
nicotinereplacement
therapy.

To learn more about
DeSoto Memorial
Hospital's Tobacco
Cessation program
please click here
or
call Phil Meyer,
Tobacco Cessation
Coordinator at
(863) 993-7648,
or by e-mail at
pmeyer@dmh.org

Florida

QUIT-FOR-LIFE LINE

Tobacco Use Cessation Quitline

1-877-822-6669 toll free

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