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do? What can the wife do to help? Are there other family members who can help out? Are there neighbors who could check in on them? Do they have adequate financial resources to handle their medical bills?
The next part of the process is planning solutions and connecting with needed services. The couple may need a homemaker through the CSC or other provider to help with bathing, meal preparation, and light cleaning. They may need home delivered meals on days when the homemaker isn’t there. They may need a volunteer set up to drive them to doctor appointments, and help filling out an application for public benefits such as food stamps to stretch their resources. The advocate helps set up the services, coordinates the activities of the various agencies involved, and monitors to see that the identified needs are met. This whole process is often called case management or care management.
In addition to providing case management services, the Advocates provide direct assistance: helping a client find more suitable housing and then helping them move, working out a client’s budget, counseling a family about a nursing home placement or facilitating a family support group.
The CSC also offers a wide range of supportive services to older people in the community who do not necessarily require full case management. In addition to the in-home services mentioned above, the Center provides Senior Meal Sites in each county; transportation to the Meal Sites, shopping and medical appointments; employment assistance for the older workers; a merchant discout program; a bimonthly newsletter entitled the VOICE OF EXPERIENCE; family support groups; and extensive volunteer opportunities through the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).
To be eligible for most of these programs one must be 60 years or older. The exception is the Older Workers Program, for which eligibility begins at 55. Small charges are made for some transportation services; other aging programs request contributions toward the cost of delivering the service.
For more information, call the CSC at 825-6494, 347-0440 or 6721717.
Ms. Morgan is the Aging Services Coordinator for Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Center.
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