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Provides a variety of services designed to help seniors remain independent while living in their own home or other living arrangement. Non-medical home services include: Cooking Light housekeeping Companionship Personal grooming and dressing Shopping Doctor visits Transportation Yard work Mobility assistance House maintenance and small repairs Overnight stays (24-hour care) Long-distance check-ins Respite care Alzheimer/Dementia care

Provides a telephone service that calls individuals in need of medication reminders, safety checks and/or social visit.

Provides assistance to older citizens. Services include escorts to appointments, church services, and grocery shopping; referrals to senior resoures, telephone reassurance calls, and caregiver relief.

Places calls to consumers at a specific pre-arranged time in order to provide support or to check-in.

Friendly visits or phone calls to seniors in Dauphin County

Provides telephone reassurance service. Seeks volunteers for phone service, to assist with budgeting, making visits to individuals in the community and at facilities (Ombudsman volunteer), or assisting seniors with insurance questions (trained PA MEDI volunteer).

Helps people who are socially isolated relieve their loneliness by arranging for people to telephone them on a regular basis.

Contacts older adults and individuals with disabilities during weather and community emergencies to see if they need assistance. Services could include grocery shopping, snow shoveling, or delivering medicine.

Connects people who are either living alone or may not have daily contact with others to a friendly, trusted volunteer.

Offers friendly phone calls each morning.

Provides care management services including involvement for doctor’s visits, medical advocacy, friendly visiting, travel companionship, interaction with medical providers, regular check-ins by phone, bi-yearly in-person visits for updates, and around the clock availability in the event of a crisis.

Provides a variety of services designed to help seniors remain independent while living in their own home or other living arrangement. Non-medical home services include: Cooking Light housekeeping Companionship Personal grooming and dressing Shopping Doctor visits Transportation Yard work Mobility assistance House maintenance and small repairs Overnight stays (24-hour care) Long-distance check-ins Respite care Alzheimer/Dementia care

Matches eligible individuals with volunteers for friendly visits and/or phone calls once or twice a week to older adults in need. Senior Companions are volunteers, ages 55 and older.

Volunteers provide non-medical, in-home services to seniors on a short term or intermittent basis to complement care provided by family or friends. Services available grocery delivery, and telephone reassurance.

A ministry that connects churches with the needs of the community. Some examples of the volunteer services provided are personal care, friendly visits, transportation, homemaking assistance, home maintenance, budget guidance, respite care, and tutoring/mentoring. Financial aid not available.

Provides volunteer assistance to help seniors remain living in their homes and communities, independent and healthy. Services include transportation to medical appointments, grocery shopping, food pantry delivery, friendly phone calls, friendly visits, minor handyman assistance and light yardwork (no grass cutting or snow shoveling). Volunteers undergo background checks, and references are required.

Helps older adults remain safe and independent in their homes and in the community. Provides non-medical and volunteer caregiving services including in-home visits, grocery shopping and errands, transportation and escorting to medical appointments, telephone reassurance, and home safety checks.

Offers daily reassurance call designed for reminders and safety check ups. All calls are made by a live representative who also provides some social interaction. Check ups can be done by phone, email, or as a call-in service.

Provides older adults with phone calls from volunteers to "check in" on their needs, help to reduce isolation, and increase their opportunities for social connection.

Reaches out to those in need with relationship building through friendly visits and phone calls. All services are dependent upon volunteer availability. Requests are granted on a case-by case basis.

Screened and trained senior volunteers are prepared to discuss issues related to aging, such as stress and isolation. Provides weekly phone or home visits with volunteers for conservation and socialization. Offers volunteer opportunities with training for senior peer counselors.

Offers eligible veterans access to a continuum of care from prevention to diagnosis and treatment, to appropriate follow-up and referral. Patients needing specialty care are referred to the VA Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, PA.