Senior Services

Adult day care: day care/day health Services provided to older adults, the majority of whom are living with memory loss. During the year 15,319 days of care was provided to 254 people at the elizabeth and tab williams adult day center of Senior Services. The williams center is open from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., monday through friday and provides supervision, memory stimulating activities, meals, baths, haircuts, dental care, etc. To older adults living with memory loss, as well as support groups for family caregivers.

Meals on wheels: nutritious meals delivered monday through friday to homebound Senior citizens. During the year, 229,339 lunches were delivered to 1,521 seniors and 15,800 pounds of groceries were delivered to 93 people in need, representing thousands of moments of priceless human interaction.

Home care: certified nursing assistants of Senior Services spent 24,126 hours caring for 225 older adults living with frailty in their homes. Home care Services include help with bathing, dressing, toileting, physical exercise, transfer, etc. ; 14,186 baths were given during these hours of service. This service helps older adults remain in their homes living with dignity, avoiding costly institutional placements.

Living at home: 229 high risk elders were able to remain living at home through specialized packages of Services coordinated by nurses and social workers of Senior Services. This "nursing home without walls" approach is less expensive and preferred by seniors. An estimated 357,505 in-home service hours and 39,957 baths were arranged for by our case managers and provided indirectly as a result of this medicaid program. Helpline: the helpline is staffed with aging resource specialists who provide information, referrals and options counseling to seniors and their caregivers on a variety of aging topics such as in-home service, housing options, community resources, and long-term planning. Specialists in aging answered 13,300 information and assistance questions of seniors or family caregivers. Senior lunch: 12,216 hot lunches were served to 160 older adults at four congregate nutrition sites in forsyth county. In addition to lunch, participants benefitted from informational and entertaining programs and regular socialization. Creative connections: 307 older adults were served in creative connections and memory connections with 184 new enrollees. Older adults participated in 3,966 activities. Elder care choices of Senior Services is a telephone-based referral and consultation service for employees of contracting companies. The service is designed to save employees time in identifying and locating appropriate resources to help in their caregiving needs. Pcori stands for patient-centered outcomes research institute is an initiative that helps patients, their families, and clinicians navigate the health care system by guiding them to trust worthy information to aide in the treatment process. Senior Services is participating in the d-care research study looking at how access to resources, planning, and community-based organizations can assist families navigating a dementia diagnosis. Family care giver support- this program provides support and information to caregivers that are providing care to a Senior adult.