Adults

In partnership with Dementia Friendly DeForest-Windsor, DeForest Area Community & Senior Center, DeForest Police Department, and the Dane County Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC), our Library offers this free program.

What might it be like to live with dementia? Find out at this patented course provided by Second Wind Dreams, licensed to the ADRC for community members.

Your physical and sensory abilities will be altered and you will have a new appreciation and empathy for people living with dementia.

Learn about what may cause a headache/migraine and how to find person-to-person specific triggers for them. We will go over causal types of headaches/ migraines and how to determine which category someone might fit into. Several herbs for each type of headache will be discussed as well as analgesic and anti-inflammatory herbs that can be used for pain and inflammation in the head and neck. Jean Schneider, Clinical Herbalist at Nativa Medica will lead this talk. Bring your questions!

Disclaimer: The information provided at this program is for general educational purposes only.

Meet Inga, a passionate dairy farmer, gardener, cooking enthusiast, and host of the PBS series Around the Farm Table for an entertaining and educational cooking demonstration.

If you have a disability and require accommodation in order to fully participate, please contact library staff.

When his class wins a trip to San Lorenzo, a young man get more than he bargained for when pirates kidnap him and his friends. Will the young man finally meet with his long-lost parents in the jungle?

Rated: PG
Runtime: 1 hr. 21 min.
© Nickelodeon Network

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This class is for those new to Medicare, as well as those currently enrolled. We’ll cover the component parts of Medicare, discuss recent changes, and options for managing health care costs in retirement.

This program is free and open to the public. The licensed insurance professionals involved in the seminar are in no way connected to or affiliated with Medicare. The seminar will provide basic Medicare information, while not talking about any specific companies or products. This is an educational seminar. There will be no products marketed or sold.

Do you want some different holiday decorations, but don’t want to spend any money on them? Or would you like to share decorations you don’t use anymore? Come to our holiday decoration swap!

Here’s how it works:

• Bring new or gently used decorations such as outdoor decor, ornaments, ribbon, wreaths, centerpieces, tree skirts, candles, lights, and miscellaneous.
• For each item you bring, you can take one.
• Enjoy holiday refreshments and find some new treasures!
• Items left over will be donated to a charity shop.

Join us for an afternoon of fun and excitement with the Soda Pups! Ginger Ale, Root Beer, and Sundrop will entertain us with their tricks, obedience, and agility. Each pup has special tricks up their sleeves.
The "Soda Pups" show has been entertaining and educating children of all ages for the past 15 years.

Now let's meet the pups:
 

Registration is required please call (608)846-5482 or stop in to register.

A memory screen is a wellness tool that helps identify possible changes in memory.

It creates a baseline so future changes can be monitored. Specialists from the Dane County Aging and Disability Resource Center will provide free 10-minute memory screenings. You can also get information about memory, memory clinics, brain health and local resources.

Go Big Read, UW–Madison’s common-reading program, has thousands of people reading, talking and sharing their reactions and opinions. This open-ended, lively discussion is a platform for the exploration of important issues, from a range of perspectives. Join the conversation, read the book and bring your thoughts to the table at the DeForest Area Public Library’s discussion. Copies will be available at our library.