Directory Of Senior And Caregiver Resources
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- Boston – Senior Advocate Services
Boston Age Strong Commission senior advocates provide a number of services including: Health insurance counseling - The SHINE Program (Serving the Health Information Needs of Everyone) provides free health insurance information, counseling and assistance to all Massachusetts residents with Medicare. All of our advocates are SHINE certified. Filling out an application for benefits like SNAP (food), LIHEAP (fuel), and more. In-person assessments and home visits. Connecting you to aging information, programs and services, including Home Care service providers. Connecting you to City programs and services. Referrals to legal service providers. Referrals to protective services in cases of elder abuse, self-neglect or financial exploitation. Click the link or call 617-635-4366 to find your local Senior Advocate.
- Home Base: Veteran and Family Care
Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program, is dedicated to healing the invisible wounds for Post-9/11 Veterans, Service Members and their Families through world-class clinical care, wellness, education and research. As a National Center of Excellence, Home Base operates the first and largest private-sector clinic in the nation devoted to healing invisible wounds such as post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, anxiety, depression, co-occurring substance use disorder, military sexual trauma and family relationship challenges.
- Massachusetts – Application for Disabled Parking Placard/Plate – RMV
The RMV application to apply for a Disabled Parking Placard/Plate allowing you to park in Handicap only parking spaces.
- Massachusetts – Dementia Friends
To become a Dementia Friend, you participate in a one-hour Dementia Friends Information Session offered by a Dementia Friends Champion. You will learn five key messages about dementia and a bit about what it’s like to live with dementia. As a Dementia Friend, you turn your new understanding of dementia into a practical action that can help someone with dementia living in your community. Your action can be as big or as small as you choose – because every action counts! - Massachusetts – FoodSource Hotline
Project Bread's toll-free FoodSource Hotline is the only comprehensive statewide information and referral service in Massachusetts for people facing hunger. FoodSource Hotline counselors refer callers to food resources in their community as well as provides them with information about school meals, summer meal sites for kids, elder meals programs, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. They will screen callers for eligibility for SNAP and help them with the application. Their goal is to help the caller find as many resources as possible to put good food on the table. When relevant, they also connect callers with utility, fuel assistance, and MassHealth. And all information is kept strictly confidential. Call 800-645-8333.
- Massachusetts – Greater Boston Food Bank’s Brown Bag program
In Eastern Massachusetts, one in five seniors struggles with hunger. The Greater Boston Food Bank’s Brown Bag program operates 14 distributions at 13 sites and provides free supplemental groceries to more than 8,500 seniors in need each month. GBFB delivers a carefully planned selection of nutritious food items to senior and community centers each month, where staff and volunteers organize and fill grocery bags for distribution. A typical grocery bag weighs about 15 pounds and contains roughly $40 worth of food items such as: milk, cheese, ground turkey, yogurt, spinach, carrots, dried fruit, spaghetti, peanut butter and cereal.
- Massachusetts – Health Insurance Counseling
The SHINE (Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Everyone) Program provides free health insurance information and counseling to all Massachusetts residents with Medicare and their caregivers. People who have Medicare or who are about to become eligible for Medicare can meet with a counselor to learn about benefits and options available. A counselor will review programs that help people with limited income to pay health care costs. - Massachusetts – JF&CS Parkinson’s Family Support Program
JF&CS has been providing arts-based therapeutic activities, education, resources, and a supportive community for people with Parkinson’s and their families. We are uniquely suited as a multi-service community organization to offer help at any stage of the disease; wherever you are on your journey, you belong here. - Massachusetts – Memory Cafés in Massachusetts
A Memory Café is a welcoming place for people with forgetfulness or other changes in their thinking and their family and friends. Memory Cafés meet at a variety of places including coffeehouses, museums, or community organizations. Each Memory Café is different. Some Cafés invite guest artists, some offer education about memory changes, and some are just for relaxing and chatting. But all cafés share one goal: to help guests feel comfortable and to know that they are not alone. Cafés are a place to talk with others who understand what you are going through, to forget about limitations and instead focus on strengths, to enjoy other’s company, and to explore something new.
- Massachusetts – Reporting Elder Abuse and Neglect
Elder abuse includes physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, caretaker neglect, financial exploitation, and self neglect. Elder Abuse reports can be filed 24 hours a day either online (see instructions below) or by phone at (800) 922-2275. - Massachusetts – The File of Life Program
The File of Life forms consist of a wallet size form for traveling and a larger size with a magnet on it for placement on the refrigerator. The forms have spaces for your emergency and medical information. Emergency personnel look for this information in the event they are called to you home. The wallet size forms are required for anyone who uses our vans or bus trips. The forms are usually available at the town Department of Elder Affairs or your County Sheriff’s Department. They are free of charge.
- Needham – Low Vision Support Group
The Massachusetts Association for the Blind offers a monthly low vision support group at the Center at the Heights in Needham. The group provides practical and emotional support to individuals coping with serious sight loss. The group provides the opportunity for participants to share fears, frustrations, coping mechanisms, and resources as their vision changes. Other groups are located in communities throughout Massachusetts. Many are led by visually impaired peer coordinators. For more information call 781-455-7555.
- Newton – Low-Vision Support Group
The Newton Low-Vision Support Group meets the first Monday of each month at 1:00 PM (unless it is a holiday, then moves ahead one week). This is a support group for those with vision impairments. Information, friendship and sharing are brought to the Newton Senior Center by the Vision Foundation and Massachusetts Association for the Blind. The Group suspends meetings in January and February.
- Massachusetts – Dementia Friends
To become a Dementia Friend, you participate in a one-hour Dementia Friends Information Session offered by a Dementia Friends Champion. You will learn five key messages about dementia and a bit about what it’s like to live with dementia. As a Dementia Friend, you turn your new understanding of dementia into a practical action that can help someone with dementia living in your community. Your action can be as big or as small as you choose – because every action counts! - Massachusetts – Memory Cafés in Massachusetts
A Memory Café is a welcoming place for people with forgetfulness or other changes in their thinking and their family and friends. Memory Cafés meet at a variety of places including coffeehouses, museums, or community organizations. Each Memory Café is different. Some Cafés invite guest artists, some offer education about memory changes, and some are just for relaxing and chatting. But all cafés share one goal: to help guests feel comfortable and to know that they are not alone. Cafés are a place to talk with others who understand what you are going through, to forget about limitations and instead focus on strengths, to enjoy other’s company, and to explore something new.
- Massachusetts – Savvy Caregiver Training Program
The Savvy Caregiver program is a 6 week training program given by the Healthy Living Center of Excellence, for family caregivers who care for someone with Alzheimer’s or Related Dementias. The program is facilitated by 1 or 2 trained Practitioners. It is based on the notion that family members who become caregivers need to be trained to assume a new role- caregiving- for which they are unprepared and untrained. The program is geared to informal caregivers of those either living at home or planning to return home, and in a moderate stage of illness.
- Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts
The Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts (BIA-MA) is a clearinghouse for information and resources regarding brain injury; it also provides informal counseling to individuals and families that are dealing with brain injury.The organization conducts advocacy training, develops and present programs in prevention awareness, host educational conferences, and advocates for legislation and improved medical services.
- Home Base: Veteran and Family Care
Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program, is dedicated to healing the invisible wounds for Post-9/11 Veterans, Service Members and their Families through world-class clinical care, wellness, education and research. As a National Center of Excellence, Home Base operates the first and largest private-sector clinic in the nation devoted to healing invisible wounds such as post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, anxiety, depression, co-occurring substance use disorder, military sexual trauma and family relationship challenges.
About Unique HomeCare Services
Our headquarters in Norwood, Massachusetts serves the Greater Boston communities in Suffolk, Middlesex, Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth counties.
We provide private in-home care for elders, those with Alzheimer’s or Dementia, and people who are recuperating from illness, injury, or surgery.
We provide both short-term and long-term in-home care needs from as little as one 4 hour day a week to 24 Hour Care and Live-In Care.
We offer a full range of in-home personal care services including Bathing, Personal Hygiene and Grooming, Dressing Assistance, Toileting and Incontinence, Feeding, and Medication Reminders.
We also provide support services such as Case Management, Accompaniment to Appointments, Nutrition and Meal Management, Light Housekeeping and Laundry Services, Bed and Wheel Chair Transfers, and Shopping and Running Errands.
It is our pleasure to assist our veteran clients with VA Aid and Attendance Benefit approval at no cost.
To schedule a no cost and no obligation In-Home Assessment to determine the home care needs and get a quote, please call us to speak to a Case Manager at (800) 296-9962 or fill out our Free Quote Contact Form.