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Foster Grandparents provide service to children with special needs in schools, Head Start or Health facilities. Volunteers who are age 55 and older and meet income guidelines agree to serve a minimum of 10 hours per week and receive a tax-free stipend of $4/hour and other benefits.

Senior Companion Program provides older adults with special needs assistance in their homes. Volunteers who are age 55 and older and meet income guidelines agree to serve a minimum of 10 hours per week and receive a tax-free stipend of $4/hour and other benefits.

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Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Senior Corps Volunteer Programs
General Yard Work
Friendly Visiting
Provides supportive home care and companionship for seniors and the disabled. Services include: medication assistance, Dementia and Alzheimer's care, 24 hour care, light housekeeping, meal preparation, incidental transportation, laundry services, and personal care services.

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Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Homemaker Assistance
Adult In Home Respite Care
Friendly Visiting
In Home Meal Preparation

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.

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Medical Equipment/Supplies
Friendly Telephoning
Friendly Visiting
Congregate Meals/Nutrition Sites
Adult In Home Respite Care
Home Delivered Meals
Homemaker Assistance
Provides supportive home care and companionship for seniors and the disabled. Services include: medication assistance, Dementia and Alzheimer's care, 24 hour care, light housekeeping, meal preparation, incidental transportation, laundry services, and personal care services.

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Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Homemaker Assistance
Adult In Home Respite Care
Friendly Visiting
In Home Meal Preparation
Volunteer opportunities for individuals for the benefit of frail older persons with special needs. Matches volunteers with a frail older person. The volunteer can then provide such assistance as companionship, respite for a caregiver, escort and transportation, shopping assistance, letter writing, reading, or other chores which the older person is in need of and the volunteer is capable and willing to provide.

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Senior Corps Volunteer Programs
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Senior Ride Programs
Friendly Visiting
Adult In Home Respite Care

Matches volunteers with seniors in-need of assistance. Volunteers can also provide respite service for caregivers who need a break.

Volunteers can assist seniors with activities such as:

-- Transportation to appointments, personal outings, or religious services.

-- Shopping or errands.

-- Light housekeeping.

-- Companionship/friendly visiting.

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Adult In Home Respite Care
Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Senior Ride Programs
Homemaker Assistance

Offers support services for older adults, services include friendly calling, home visits, shopping assistance, SHIP (Senior Health Insurance Program), exercise classes, ramp construction, and garden share.

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Friendly Visiting
Friendly Telephoning
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Medicare Information/Counseling
Community Gardening
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Volunteer opportunities for individuals for the benefit of frail older persons with special needs. Matches volunteers with a frail older person. The volunteer can then provide such assistance as companionship, respite for a caregiver, escort and transportation, shopping assistance, letter writing, reading, or other chores which the older person is in need of and the volunteer is capable and willing to provide.

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Senior Corps Volunteer Programs
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Senior Ride Programs
Friendly Visiting
Adult In Home Respite Care

Provides connection services to county seniors. Offering friendly visits or friendly phone calls.

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

Information and referral, including referrals for minor home repair, yard work, personal care, and homemaker services.

Counseling and case management.

Recreational activities.

Assistance with Medicare and medical insurance.

Friendly visiting.

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Medicare Information/Counseling
Friendly Visiting
Senior Centers
Specialized Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
In home care provides personal care and companionship.

Companionship offers socialization, respite care, medication reminders, meal preparation, shopping and errands, light housekeeping, bathing assistance, laundry, incidental transportation, etc.

Personal care includes ambulation assistance, bathing and showering, continence care and toileting, skin and hair care, dressing, feeding, etc.

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In Home Meal Preparation
Adult In Home Respite Care
Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Home Health Aide Services
Housekeeping Assistance
Personal Care

Home care services including companionship, meal preparation, dressing, bathing, transportation, medication reminders, and housekeeping.

Available as needed for less than an hour up to 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

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Personal Care
In Home Meal Preparation
Senior Ride Programs
Medication Information/Management
Friendly Visiting
Housekeeping Assistance
Activities for senior citizens.

Congregate meals available Mon-Fri at 12 pm. Must call the day before to order a meal.

Educational, recreational, and information programs. Arts and humanities. Group programs and socialization.

Information and referral.

Placement of volunteers at the Center and in the community.

In-home services include home-delivered meals; transportation to and from the Center, tours and shopping, and telephone reassurance.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Senior Centers
Home Delivered Meals
Congregate Meals/Nutrition Sites
Friendly Telephoning
Senior Ride Programs

Assists individuals and their families to maintain their independence, dignity and quality of life. Some of the services provided are friendly visiting, transportation and escort, shopping and errand running, minor home and yard maintenance, letter writing and reading, and respite.

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Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Adult In Home Respite Care
Senior Ride Programs
Friendly Visiting
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services

Fully trained and certified Homecare Assistants help with a variety of tasks, including:

-- Meal Preparation

-- Light Housekeeping

-- Laundry

-- Personal Care and Grooming

-- Transportation for Errands and Essential Shopping

-- Medication Reminder

-- Companionship

-- Supervision

Works directly with clients to set up a schedule that works best for clients' individual needs.

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Medication Information/Management
In Home Meal Preparation
Homemaker Assistance
Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Personal Care

Offers to have a social director visit home-bound individuals in Springville School District.

Loving Touch provides homemaker care including: Safety supervision, Companionship, Medication reminders, Meal planning and preparation, Light housekeeping and laundry, Shopping and errands, and Transportation to appointments.

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In Home Meal Preparation
Friendly Visiting
Homemaker Assistance
Housekeeping Assistance
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance

Provides members who received specialized training in how to effectively listen, respond, and refer friends and neighbors for help. It also includes an overview of common mental health and substance abuse disorders and how to most effectively get help for these individuals. The CCT provides companioning and linkage to services for neighbors in need.

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Friendly Visiting
Specialized Information and Referral
Jewish seniors who are home-bound or in nursing homes are visited on a regular basis, and rides are provided to ensure they get to doctors' appointments, pick up prescription medicine, and/or go grocery shopping. During Jewish holidays, the Federation provides programming to nursing homes around the area. Companionship and socialization is a priority with the Senior Program.

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Older Adult Social Clubs
Friendly Visiting
Senior Ride Programs
Volunteer opportunities for individuals for the benefit of frail older persons with special needs. Matches volunteers with a frail older person. The volunteer can then provide such assistance as companionship, respite for a caregiver, escort and transportation, shopping assistance, letter writing, reading, or other chores which the older person is in need of and the volunteer is capable and willing to provide.

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Senior Corps Volunteer Programs
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Senior Ride Programs
Friendly Visiting
Adult In Home Respite Care
Non-medical care in home to those age 19 and over.

Home nursing care.

Physical, occupational and speech therapy.

Case management.

Supportive care.

Senior services include setting up and administering medications, monitoring blood pressure and blood sugar, nursing care, personal care, and companionship.

Waivers services.

Private duty nursing

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Homemaker Assistance
Occupational Therapy
Home Nursing
Nutrition Education
Speech Therapy
Friendly Visiting
Personal Care
Physical Therapy

Offers services such as transportation assistance (doctor's appointments, grocery store, hair appointments, etc.), help with yard work and minor home repairs. All services are provided by volunteers in the community.

*The office is located in the Lion's Park Shelter House at 72nd and Prairie Avenue.

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Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
General Yard Work
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Residential Snow Shoveling
Companionship and personal care services for those in need of in-home assistance.

In-home companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, errand services, grocery shopping, transportation services, 24 hour care available, laundry washing, and recreation activities.

Personal care services include bathing, mobility, transferring, incontinence care, oral hygiene, feeding, and toileting.

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Adult In Home Respite Care
Disability Related Transportation
Home Health Aide Services
Homemaker Assistance
Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Provides supportive home care and companionship for seniors and the disabled. Services include: medication assistance, Dementia and Alzheimer's care, 24 hour care, light housekeeping, meal preparation, incidental transportation, laundry services, and personal care services.

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Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Homemaker Assistance
Adult In Home Respite Care
Friendly Visiting
In Home Meal Preparation