Southern Arizona Diaper Bank


SouthEastern Arizona Governments Organization, Area Agency on Aging (SEAGO/AAA) would like to announce their first  annual  diaper drive on December 6, 2014 at the Vista Park in Sierra Vista.  
SEAGO/AAA, in conjunction with the Southern Arizona Diaper Bank, will be accepting donations of adult diapers from 11 am to 3 pm.
If you want to find a topic that NOBODY wants to talk about, just say the words “Adult Incontinence”.   15-20% of adults over the age of 65 are incontinent.  Incontinence is defined as “..inability to control urination.  It affects people of all ages and gender, but women are twice as likely as men to develop incontinence”.
The problem is real and many people suffer from this condition.  For the elderly and ill, there are many items that Medicare won’t cover, and that supplemental insurance will cover partially.   Adult incontinence supplies cost $100 per month.  With the average social security benefit of $874/month, spending $100 for incontinence supplies is just not possible, so many do without.
Because they can’t afford incontinence supplies, many incontinent but otherwise healthy adults stop leaving the house for fear of having an accident and therefore becoming “shut-ins”.  On the flip side, for those folks who do become seriously ill late in life, the portion of their care that isn’t covered by Medicare and other insurances – like incontinence supplies – often means a catastrophic depletion of their life savings.
Please help us in our effort to collect adult diapers for those people in need.  Our services cover the four counties of Graham/Greenlee/Cochise and Santa Cruz.  Our communities are in dire need of these supplies and our case managers distribute these supplies to those clients most in need.

If you need any additional information on this diaper drive, please contact Wanda Leikem, Program Manager-Area Agency of Aging, at 520-432-2525, or e-mail her at wleikem@seago.org.

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