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Services offered by the Adult Services program include:

• Transportation assistance for low-income disabled Polk County residents and individuals 60 & over whom have no other means.
• A home delivered lunchtime meals for those unable to prepare a meal for themselves or transportation to a senior meal site.
• Financial management and budget counseling for low-income individuals

Home delivered meals.

-- For residents of Wymore, calls for home delivered meals must be made to the Beatrice Senior Center, at (402) 223-3055 or the main office at (402) 223-1376.

-- For residents of Palmyra, calls for home delivered meals must be made to the Syracuse Senior Center, at (402) 269-2957.

-- For residents of Nebraska City, home delivered meals must be arranged through the city's Meals on Wheels program.

Provides hot meals delivered to homebound seniors on a daily basis.

Home delivered meals.

Home delivered meals are available in those situations where a client is in need of a warm nutritious meal and they are unable to prepare their own because of illness or disability. The meals and those individuals who volunteer to deliver those meals are coordinated through various local organizations.

Also offers community based meals that provides a social atmosphere that promotes healthy interaction with others while receiving a warm meal.

Meals include a choice of lunch and/or evening meal, both of which will be delivered around noon.

A deposit equivalent to 2 weeks delivery is included in the application process. No deliveries are made on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.

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.

Provides a senior center where seniors can come to share companionship, meals, and recreational activities. Services include congregate and home delivered meals, recreational activities that include a pool and exercise equipment, quilting, painting, bingo, exercise classes, and bowling.

Home delivered meals.

Hospital providing acute care, skilled care, respite care, 24 hour emergency room, outpatient surgical procedures, on-site lab, CT scanner and other traditional radiology services, physical therapy 5 days a week, occupational therapy, speech therapy, MRI, Doppler/Echo, ultrasound; bone density testing, immunization clinic, foot clinic. Specialists include: orthopedics, dermatology, and podiatry.

Zimmer Medical Clinic.

Meals on Wheels.

Offers services for older adults including congregate meals, home delivered meals, information and referral to community resources, transportation, and help applying for benefits.

Home delivered meals to homebound individuals.

Delivers hot meals to homebound seniors and their spouses.

Provides delivery of hot meals to home-bound seniors. Additional frozen meals available to be used for dinner and on weekends.

Full service hospital. Additional services include Meals on Wheels, Behavioral Health services, both inpatient and outpatient, Monthly outpatient clinics, Alzheimer's support group.

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.

Services and activities for senior citizens within Butler County to support their independence and community involvement.

Congregate meals at 12 pm, Monday-Friday.

Home delivered meals, supported by volunteers, Monday-Friday.

Foot care clinic offered every three weeks by appointment only ($15 fee).

Daily recreational activities (cards, pool, quilting).

Free blood pressure checks on the second Wednesday of each month.

Farmer's market coupons.

Food assistance.

Entertainment first Friday of each month.

Hearing aid representatives first Tuesday and second Thursday of each month.

Provides a home-delivered hot lunch, with an option to add a cold sack supper. Meals can be personalized to accommodate special diets such as diabetic, low sodium, low cholesterol, and mechanical soft, or gluten-free.

Staff are available to assist those living in other parts of Champaign County in locating meal delivery options for their community.

Coordination of congregate and home delivered meals in individual communities.

Provides a home-delivered meal program that is available to seniors 60 and older who are homebound, unable to cook for themselves, and have no one to cook for them.

Diabetic approved meals available.

Peer Advocates are volunteers aged 60 and older who provide assistance to seniors, also aged 60 and older, with a variety of needs, concerns, and questions. Services include emotional support and companionship, assistance with the Rent Reimbursement program through DHHS by helping with online or paper form applications (a one-time annual program for eligible individuals), and guidance through the SHIIP program, which includes drug plan, Medicare Advantage, or supplemental plan comparisons, as well as education for new Medicare enrollees.

Can also offer information and counseling on long-term care insurance, helping individuals evaluate benefit plans, select suitable policies, or explore alternatives. While not directly providing meals, they can connect seniors to resources like home-delivered meal programs for those who face challenges in meal preparation or access. Peer Advocates also play a role in senior advocacy, supporting efforts to protect and promote the rights and interests of older adults.

Provides a senior center where seniors can come to share companionship, meals, and recreational activities. Services include congregate and home delivered meals, recreational activities that include a pool and exercise equipment, quilting, painting, bingo, exercise classes, and bowling.

Provides a home-delivered meal program focused on physician prescribed, specialty dietary needs (low sodium, diabetic, etc). Hot meals are delivered Mon-Fri, customized to each individuals dietary needs. Participants may add a breakfast meal to their delivery for an additional cost.

**At this time, delivery is available in Springfield only.

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.

Home delivered meals.