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| | 4/12/2010 | | NDAD Quarterly Newsletter - Spring Edition 2010 | | Please click on the following attachment to view the new Spring Edition of the NDAD Insider.
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NDAD ...  | | | | | 1/27/2010 | | NDAD Administers North Dakota Organ Transplant Fund | | | The Organ Transplant Fund was established by the ND Legislature in 1991 to provide funds to help individuals alleviate demonstrated financial needs related to costs associated with transplant ... | | | | | 6/22/2009 | | Escape to the Lake a Great Success! | | | More than 100 people are at Lake Nelson... near Center this weekend as part of the North Dakota Association for the Disabled 'Escape to the Lake' event. Reporter Kate Schell has the story. More than ... | | | | | 10/30/2008 | | Accessible Van Now Available at Fargo NDAD Office | | | The Fargo NDAD office now has a van with a lift available for loan to individuals in the community who are wheelchair users. The van can be used for in town medical appointments or events. The van ... | |
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Vic and Carol Voecks continue to live on their farm, in their own home thanks to the assistance and support that NDAD provides them. NDAD provides financial assistance with some of the cost of their personal attendant care, which they require 24 hours a day 7 days a week due to their disabilities.
Vic was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1971. MS is a chronic and disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system. Remarkably, Vic was able to continue farming for seven years after his diagnosis. Carol worked as a nurse, returning to school to become a registered nurse and serving as the Director of Nursing at a local nursing home. Together they were able to care for Vic’s MS and remain on the farm they dearly loved.
In 2005, Carol was diagnosed with dementia. As the disease progressed she became increasingly forgetful and eventually unable to care for Vic or herself. Vic and Carol had made it clear to their adult children, Darin and Kristy, that they did not want to live in a nursing home. Darin and Kristy began the process of finding resources and support to keep their parents on the farm, which was made more difficult with their needing full time care. They were running out of options for their parents and were very concerned about their parent’s health and safety living on their own.
If it had not been for NDAD’s assistance, Darin and Kristy didn’t know what they were going to do. Darin and Kristy can’t thank NDAD enough, saying “NDAD’s assistance has allowed our parents to live as normal of a life as they can possibly have in their own home.”
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