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Committed to supporting and empowering the well being of adults of all ages, residing in Lehigh County. Information and assistance is provided to enable individuals to remain active, healthy, productive and independent in their community. Senior Services include: - PA MEDI - Adult day care - Assessment - Care Management - Caregiver Support Program - Cedarview Apartments - Health and Wellness - Homemaker/home support (18-59 years of age) - Housing case management/housing assistance - Information and assistance - Neighborhood senior centers - PA LINK to Aging and Disability Resources (www.lehighnorthamptonlink.org) - Ombudsman program - Personal care - Protective services - Transportation Click here to find information on subsidized housing, home health care, personal care homes, nursing homes, retirement communities, etc

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Adult Day Programs
Senior Housing Information and Referral
In Home Respite Care
Activities of Daily Living Assessment
Adult Protective Services
State Medicaid Waiver Programs
Area Agencies on Aging
Family Caregiver Subsidies
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Long Term Care Ombudsman Programs
Medicare Information/Counseling
Investigates reports of abuse, neglect (including self-neglect), abandonment, and financial exploitation involving adults age 60 and older. Provides assistance to alleviate the risk of harm.
Older Adult Protective Services investigates reports of abuse of persons age 60 and older.

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Area Agencies on Aging
Adult Protective Services
Provides protective services to older adults who are at imminent risk of physical or emotional abuse, abandonment, exploitation, or neglect. Those calling to report elder abuse need not give their name to the agency.

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Area Agencies on Aging
Elder Abuse Hotlines
Adult Protective Services
Investigates reports of abuse, neglect, abandonment and financial exploitation.

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Adult Protective Services
Conducts investigations for abuse, neglect, exploitation, and abandonment. Receives reports of individuals aged 18-59 who may need protective services, forwarding them to our investigating agency, Liberty Health Corporation.

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Adult Protective Services
Protects older adults who are at risk of harm because of any type of abuse by insure that the basic health and safety of all older adults are met in the least restrictive setting possible, and that no older adult should remain at imminent risk to person or property. Responsible for investigating any referral regarding safety concerns for an older person within 72 hours. If the older adult is being abused, the agency offers services to stop the abuse and prevent it from occurring again.

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Elder Abuse Hotlines
Area Agencies on Aging
Adult Protective Services
Investigates reports of abuse, neglect (including self-neglect), abandonment, or financial exploitation of older adults and those younger than age 60 with disabilities. Trained protective service investigators work to eliminate danger, assuring that older adults are in the safest and least-restrictive living situations.
24 hour, on-call staff members provide emergency service in situations of actual or threatened abuse and are trained to detect, reduce and eliminate abuse, neglect, exploitation, and abandonment of older adults.
Provides referrals for those who are at risk of serious injury, death, or financial exploitation. Services offered to reduce or remove risks to the older adult.

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Adult Protective Services
Provides crisis intervention services for older adults who may be victims, or potential victims, of elder abuse, abandonment, exploitation and neglect.

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Adult Protective Services
Provides protective services to older adults who are at imminent risk of physical or emotional abuse, abandonment, exploitation, or neglect. Those calling to report elder abuse need not give their name to the agency.

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Adult Protective Services
Elder Abuse Hotlines
Area Agencies on Aging
Protective services are provided to incapacitated older adults unable to perform or obtain services that are necessary to maintain physical or mental health, for whom there is no responsible caretaker and who are in imminent danger to person or property.

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Adult Protective Services
Provides assessments, crisis intervention, emergency assessments, mental health intakes, child and older adult protective service.

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Children's Protective Services
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
Adult Protective Services
Agency staff are available 24 hours a day to receive reports, investigate and take necessary actions regarding abuse, neglect, exploitation or abandonment for people age 60 and over.

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Adult Protective Services
Protects individuals from abuse, neglect, and exploitation by investigating and providing or arranging services necessary to alleviate or prevent further abuse.
  • Statewide Elder Abuse HOTLINE: 1-800-490-8505 The goal of the Protective Services Department is to insure that the basic health and safety of all older adults are met in the least restrictive setting possible, and that no older adult should remain at imminent risk to person or property. Elder abuse may involve one or more of the following:
    • Abuse
    • Neglect
    • Exploitation
    • Abandonment
    Abuse may occur when a caregiver fails to meet the needs of the older person or when older people fail to take care of themselves. Protective Services are provided under one or more of the following conditions:
    • 60 years of age or older
    • Incapacitated person
    • Unable to obtain or perform services necessary to maintain physical or mental health
    • No responsible caretaker
    • Imminent risk of his/her person or property
  • Provides protective services to older adults who are at imminent risk of physical or emotional abuse, abandonment, exploitation, or neglect. Those calling to report elder abuse need not give their name to the agency.

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    Adult Protective Services
    Elder Abuse Hotlines
    Area Agencies on Aging
    Provides protective services to adults who have a physical or mental disabilities. Anyone who suspects that an adult is the victim of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or abandonment should call the statewide protective services hotline.
    Provides resources and support to prevent, detect, reduce, or eliminate self neglect, neglect by a caregiver, physical, sexual and/or psychological abuse or financial exploitation of older adults.
    Abuse reports can be made on behalf of an older adult whether the person lives in their home or in a care facility such as a nursing facility, personal care home, hospital, etc. The reporters may remain anonymous and have legal protection from retaliation, discrimination, and civil or criminal prosecution. Common signs and symptoms of abuse may include Isolation, Weight loss, Bruises or broken bones, Increased confusion, Unusual withdrawals from any account, and Signing over one’s home to another.
    Receives, investigates and resolves consumer complaints made by or on behalf of older residents of nursing homes, personal care homes, domiciliary care homes and home health care agencies.

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    Adult Protective Services
    Long Term Care Ombudsman Programs
    Consumer Complaints
    Provides independent living services to older county residents such as home delivered meals, transportation, emergency/legal assistance, SHARE Housing, senior volunteer program, and case coordination.

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    General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
    Senior Ride Programs
    Volunteer Opportunities
    Adult Protective Services
    Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
    Senior Advocacy Groups
    Personal Care
    Home Delivered Meals
    Medicare Information/Counseling
    Area Agencies on Aging
    Receives and investigates reports of suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation, and abandonment of Butler County residents aged 60 and older and provides activities, resources and supports to detect, prevent, reduce, and eliminate these conditions.
    Provides protective services for older adults.