Mar 27, 2020 Dear Community Partners, For our weekly check in, we wish to update you this third week on the activities and changes at SeniorCare. Everything stated in my March 18 message remains applicable to this week’s status. I have included our legislators on this email and will continue to include them on our…
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Mar 27, 2020 This article was originally published on the Federal Communications Commission website. View the article and find updates here. If you are concerned about an older adult (age 60 or older), and have reason to believe he/she is a victim of elder abuse, neglect, self-neglect or financial exploitation call the Massachusetts-based Elder Abuse…
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Mar 26, 2020 SeniorCare’s Home Delivered Meals (Meals on Wheels) program is continuing to serve our consumers. SeniorCare will not deliver meals on Friday, March 27,2020. Today, March 26, all of our home delivered meals consumers received an extra meal to be used tomorrow (March 27). We will serve on Monday, March 30, as usual.…
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Mar 26, 2020 By Katie Lannan Agencies Take Steps to Ensure Elder Care Older adults are among those most at risk from the coronavirus, and the agencies and workers that deliver them meals and care for them in their homes are confronting new challenges during the public health crisis. While facing additional demand with more…
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Mar 25, 2020 By Lance Robertson, Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging, Administration for Community Living. Originally published on the HHS Blog. Today, our country affirmed the rights, dignity, independence, and well-being of older adults when President Trump signed HR4334, the Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020 into law. The law reauthorizes critical Older Americans…
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Mar 23, 2020 Mass Home Care (MHC) is the trade association representing the Commonwealth’s network of 28 Aging Services Access Points (ASAPs) and Area Agencies Aging (AAAs). This single, statewide network of coordinated care delivers home and community based services to over 60,000 individuals per month, providing over $600 million per year in services. Our…
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Mar 20, 2020 SeniorCare Inc. recognizes the widespread concern about COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus). The situation is changing daily, but our agency remains operational, supporting seniors, people with disabilities and their caregivers, and making preparations in advance for all scenarios. Here is what we are doing as of March 20, 2020: We are accepting referrals at…
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Mar 20, 2020 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity.” These opening lines from Charles Dickens “A Tale of Two Cities” feel like they were written…
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Mar 18, 2020 Dear Community Partners, I hope all are doing as well as possible during these difficult times. I wish to inform you of a few things that you might find helpful. SeniorCare’s home delivered meals continue without interruption and there are no plans to stop this critically important service. We are offering emergency…
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Mar 13, 2020 The Older Americans Act was enacted in 1965, and supports a range of home and community-based services, such as Meals On Wheels and other nutrition programs, in-home services, transportation, legal services, elder abuse prevention and caregivers support. The law established the system for funding local programs— Federal funds flow through the Massachusetts…
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