Sage Eldercare

Sage Eldercare's homecare: Sage provides in-home care for older adults and much needed respite, support and peace of mind for family caregivers. Accredited by the commission on accreditation for home care, Sage's experienced professional staff deliver quality care that meets the individual needs of older adults and their families. Regular visits with a client, the family and the home health aides provides an opportunity to address concerns and make approriate adjustments in the plan of care. The Sage social worker is available to families who need additional support or counseling. Homecare can be provided on an hourly, overnight or live-in basis and may include help with personal care, family respite, and homemaking. These services are provided by new jersey board of nursing certified home health aides and supervised by registered nurses. In 2022, 65 certified home health aides and two registered nurses provided over 33,600 hours of personal care for 63 older adults.

Sage Eldercare's meals on wheels, grocery shopping and volunteer services: Sage Eldercare's meals on wheels: in 2022, 28,875 professionally planned and prepared meals were delivered to 250 older adults in northern union county, millburn-short hills, and chatham with the help of volunteers. Sage's meals on wheels, one of the first such programs in new jersey, was established in 1966. Meals on wheels provides home delivered meals, monday through saturday, to individuals aged 60 and older who are homebound and unable to food shop or cook for themselves. The meals on wheels program not only helps with food insecurity among older adults, but it addresses the issue of social isolation by providing a friendly visit with a regular, trusted volunteer every week. For some of our recipients, the volunteer is the only visitor they receive during the week. Sage's social worker and other Sage professionals assist when a volunteer reports a concern on behalf of the recipient or when a volunteer notices a physical or behavioral change. An emergency food pantry is available when additional food is needed. Grocery shopping and errand service: for a nominal fee, participants give their grocery lists to volunteer shoppers who visit the grocery store and deliver the purchases to their home. 140 shopping trips were made for 32 older adults in 2022. The volunteers delivering the meals and doing the grocery shopping also provide an essential welfare visit for many older adults who might otherwise go without seeing anyone for days.

Sage Eldercare's spend-a-day adult day health care center: since 1975, spend-a-day has offered frail and vulnerable older adults days full of meaningful activities that stimulate mind and body, health monitoring by registered nurses, and nutritious snacks and hot noon meals all provided within a safe, secure, home-away-from-home environment. Participants display improvements in cognitive and physical health and maintain their level of independence through engagement, peer interaction and support. Participation in the spend-a-day program provides family caregivers with much needed respite from the stresses and strains of their caregiving role and allows them to attend to other responsibilities. Licensed by the department of health and senior services since 1999, spend-a-day offers daily programming that accommodates the various interests and needs of its participants with staff who are experts in dealing with a multitude of conditions including early, middle and late stages of alzheimer's disease and related dementias, limited mobility, post-stroke, diabetes, parkinson's, post-fracture, cardiac illnesses, and depression. A full-time registered nurse provides daily nursing care and assistance with medication management and a full-time licensed social worker provides counseling and support for participants and their families. The center also offers a full range of supportive health services such as physical, speech and occupational therapies, nutritional counseling and more. In 2022, spend-a-day provided over 5,655 days of care for 69 participants plus respite support for their caregivers.

Sage Eldercare other programs: infocare provides social service support, referrals, resources and caregiver support; community education programs offer a broad range of educational programs and workshops, exercise classes, and support groups to promote wellness for older adults and their caregivers; and s.h.i.p. (state health insurance assistance) program provides information about medicare, gap coverage and prescription drug plans.