Montclair Health Dept. "Stoop Time" back in April

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The Montclair Health Department's highly successful Stoop Time program returns for a second session, meeting Friday mornings, March 16 through April 20, at 10:00 a.m. Sessions will be held at the Montclair Municipal Building, 205 Claremont Avenue.

Stoop Time is a place for “mature” women to discuss the ups and downs of life throughout its different phases with a small group of others who are experiencing similar change. For example, some women in their sixties and others of the same age or older may be experiencing a loss of a significant other; some have lost a pet, a neighborhood, a job, a familiar home, adult children moving away or world and culture changes.

Leah Johnston-Rowbotham, MS, APRN, BC created and will facilitate the Stoop Time group.

”My own grandmother often discussed these issues on the front stoop while shelling peas, my mother had the stoop by the clothesline as she folded frozen towels and sheets in the late winter” says Rowbotham.

Baby boomers re-invented their own stoops on the sidelines of little league practices or outside of dance schools. Leah notes that these stoop times can help one feel less isolated in the happenings of everyday life. Although not listed as an official intervention, it is believed that “stoop time” can lessen isolation, increase cognitive activity, preserve memory and lift one’s mood.

To save your seat for this innovative group experience, please contact Erica Abbruzzese or Megan Ginter, Health Educators at 973-509-4969.