The Deaf Senior Services Coalition, teamed with Lifespan and other organizations, is trying to increase health service accessibility for older area residents who are deaf. A big goal: to find more volunteer respite caregivers
We so confidently take our ability to communicate for granted.
There’s no trouble asking a wife what’s for dinner or did the husband take out the garbage. We can easily tell the barber how to cut our hair and instruct the nail specialist which colors to use. When we go to the doctor, we can tell her where it hurts. Even with a mouthful of appliances, we can tell the dentist how often we floss.
But many of our brothers and sisters in the Rochester area have great difficulty with those things…