Congregate meals are provided to persons 60 and older. The meal must meet 1/3 of the daily recommended dietary needs of adults including the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.
Home delivered meals are provided to qualified individuals in their residence. The meals must meet 1/3 of the daily recommended dietary needs of adults 60 years and over and the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.
Meals on Wheels Home Delivery provides meals to people age 60 and older who are homebound and to their spouse. A home visit is made to explain the service and to explain other services available. Therapeutic diets, such as diabetic or mechanical soft, can be provided and the hot noon meals are delivered on the weekdays.
Congregate meals are provided to qualified individuals. The meal must meet 1/3 of the daily recommended dietary needs of adults 60 and over, including the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.
Volunteer based program delivering a lunch meal Monday through Friday to homebound individuals. Volunteers who deliver meals also do a well check on those receiving the service, to combat loneliness and isolation for the recipients.
Provides a daily healthy meal at a minimal cost for local older adults. Menus are posted each week in the Dubuque Telegraph Herald and at www.hillsdales.org
Homemade meals made fresh daily and available to the public. Meal pick-up for weekends available on Fri. The Carpenter Center is an approved meal site with Social Services for Aged and Disabled Adults (SSAD) and visitors may qualify for free meals.
Provides a nutrition program that includes home-delivered and congregate meals that are prepared through the Meal Site located on the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska reservation. The congregate meals are served during the lunch hour Monday-Friday. Home-delivered meals are delivered to persons in poorer health. In order to receive home-delivered meals, seniors need to be present for congregate meals two times a week unless health ailments interfere.
Other services that are provided include information/referral, outreach, transportation, homemaker, chore, telephoning, and visiting. The caregiver program provides a temporary period of relief or rest for caregiver of a frail elder in the form of in home respite care, adult day care respite, or respite for an overnight stay on an intermittent, occasional, or emergency basis.
Offers a Lending Closet with medical equipment to be used on a loan basis.
Senior Care Options program available to older Nebraskans who are considering admission to a nursing home and may be eligible for Medicaid assistance. Clients are screened according to a standardized assessment process developed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Care Managers arrange for services, which allow older adults to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible.
Housekeeping and supportive services to include grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, transportation and personal care.
Family Caregiver Support for those caring for an aging adult or grandparents caring for a minor child. Provides information, assistance, support group, respite care, and supplemental services.
Home delivered meals are provided to homebound by reason of illness, disability or isolation. The meals meet 1/3 of the daily dietary recommended needs of adults 60 years and over and the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.
Public benefit services, legal assistance, education, Medicare filing, and volunteer training through SHIIP.
Congregate meals are provided to qualified individuals. The meal must meet 1/3 of the daily recommended dietary needs of adults 60 and over, including the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.