2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Adults

How to Keep Your Balance and Prevent Falls

Falls are a leading cause of injury and injury-related death in the elderly population aged 65+. There are multiple reasons why you can fall. Balance is one of the biggest factors affecting falls. This presentation from Dr. Rupa Patel, DPT, seeks to educate the community on what factors can increase one's risk of falling, and how to prevent and reduce the risks of falls. She will also educate how your balance is impacted and how it can be improved with physical therapy.

 

The Therapist: A Novel

When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive... As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. But no one wants to talk about it. Her neighbors are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem.

The Woman They Could Not Silence

1860: Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing a horrifying battle with her husband of 21 years. Feeling increasingly threatened by Elizabeth and her brilliant intellect, Theophilus Packard makes a plan to put his wife back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions inside the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarland, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth than her traitorous husband.