Service

Adult Day Services

Daytime care provided for functionally impaired adults through a structured program of social and rehabilitative and/or maintenance services in a supporting group setting other than the client’s home.

Case Coordination & Support

Assessment of an older person’s needs and arrangement of needed services from community agencies.

Chore

Non-continuous household maintenance tasks intended to increase the safety of the individual(s) living at the residence including snow shoveling, raking leaves, and mowing.

Congregate Meals

Provision of nutritious meals in a congregate, community setting.

Disease Prevention/Health Promotion

A service program that provides information and support to older individuals with the intent to assist them in avoiding illness and improving health status.

Friendly Reassurance

Making regular contact, through either telephone or in-home visits, with homebound older persons to assure their well being and safety and to provide companionship and social interaction.

Home Care Assistance

Help with routine household tasks to maintain an adequate living environment, such as light housekeeping, laundry, and dishes. And, assistance with activities of daily living including bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and eating.

Home Delivered Meals

Provision of nutritious meals delivered to homebound elders who are unable to prepare food themselves.

Home Repair/ Maintenance

Improvement to an older person’s home to prevent or remedy a sub-standard condition or safety hazard, such as repairing roof, siding, or plumbing.

Information & Assistance

Assistance to individuals in finding and working with appropriate human service providers that can meet their needs.

Legal Services

Provision of legal advice and representation by an attorney. Counseling or representation by a non-lawyer other appropriate assistance by a paralegal or law student under supervision of an attorney is included.

MMAP

Provides free health insurance information and counseling on Medicaid and Medicare and other related issues. The local Commission On Aging offices in each county are MMAP sites. Medicare/Medicaid Assistance Program.

Respite

Provides companionship, supervision and/or assistance with activities of daily living for mentally or physically disabled and frail elderly persons in the absence of the primary care giver(s). May be provided at the client’s residence or at other locations.

Supplemental Services

A service program utilized to provide for goods and services in an effort to support individual or family needs that can not be met through traditional funding sources or existing community programs.