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Meals for Seniors

55 Kip Center! Keeping Seniors ageless through Art, Fitness, Nutrition and Technology. The Kip Center serves a nutritious, hot lunch daily at the center. Kip Cafe features a full course home cooked meal on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Light breakfast is available on weekdays. All preparation and cooking is done on premises.

Since 1985, the Kip Center has been a haven for the seniors in Bergen County. It is a vibrant and extremely active place for seniors to congregate in, exercise, have informative discussions, paint, and enjoy a hot, home cooked meal.

The proceeds from this donation will be used to support our crucial hot lunch fund, which serves over 800 members with an estimated $20-22,000 yearly expenditure. We would be grateful to count you as a partner who helps us provide support to our community and our neighbors.

Aid for our Aging

Ability Found is seeking support to enhance its services to seniors in need of durable medical equipment. Seniors served by this program are living at or below the poverty level, making access to necessary equipment next to impossible. Seniors in need rely on Ability Found to locate, refurbish, deliver, install and/or fit durable medical equipment so they can enjoy a greater quality of life.

Every gift makes a difference...and your funds go a long way. With a donation of just $350, Ability Found is able to locate, deliver, install and provide instruction to a senior who is in need of two bathroom grab bars, a bedside commode, a shower chair and a wheeled walker. This is life-changing for these folks!

Support from the general public makes the work of Ability Found possible for seniors in West Valley City and surrounding communities. Please join Ability Found in its efforts to give our grandparents, parents, neighbors, and friends the safety, freedom and independence they so deserve. Your generosity is very much appreciated by the Ability Found staff, and the seniors they serve.

Manage Your Weight and Have Fun At AWI!

"The AWI Weight Management Program-An 8-week Challenge to Build the Skills for Long-term Success"

The AWI Weight Management Program will meet once a week, for an hour, for a total of eight weeks. The program will be taught by a Registered Dietitian, who developed the program using a variety of educational and practical weight loss/management techniques specific to older adults. These techniques are proven to increase accountability and change behavior.

While several general weight management programs exist, very few address the special needs of older adults. This includes, but is not limited to the need for additional calcium to strengthen bones and prevent the worsening of Osteoporosis, and the importance of eating a high protein, low carbohydrate diet to manage Type 2 Diabetes. Additionally, carrying around excess weight causes additional joint pain and inflammation.

Many older individuals know what they need to do to be healthy, however key barriers prevent them from making the changes necessary to eat healthy, and lose or maintain their weight. Additionally, the majority of older adults are retired and on a fixed income thereby struggling with how to eat healthy, and cover the high cost of medications and living expenses.

The weekly meetings will consist of a weigh in, food journal review (by the dietitian) and review of a key nutritional concept. Each participant will be issued a food journal to track food and support progress. A different topic will be covered each week and will address shopping and cooking on a budget, eating out, portion sizing, hidden calories, sugars, label reading, and low cost recipe revision. Participants will also be required to attend a booster session with the Dietitian, one month from the course completion date to weigh in and assess progress.

Participants will be incentivized for their attendance and will receive weekly tools to reinforce good nutrition. Incentives will include a workbook, food journal, cookbook, water bottle, tote bag, and weekly food samples.

Aging Services Foundation of Boulder County

We fund over a dozen nationally-recognized, award-winning programs, services, and events dedicated to empowering older adults in Boulder County striving to live safely and independently at home. We help build and sustain many programs that have limited or nonexistent public funding. We receive zero funds from government organizations.

Aging Services

Aging Services is a local nonprofit organization that offers a continuum of services to help older adults remain in their home. Aging Services Mission is to enhance the lives of older adults by providing services and resources to help them remain independent. Services include, but are not limited to, Case Management, Respite, Chore Home Repair, Transportation, Adult Day Health, Referral and Resource Services, and Volunteer Services. Witwer Healthy Aging is a program of Aging Services that is dedicated to helping seniors in our community live happy, healthy, active lives.

Witwer Healthy Aging offers countless activities and programs at over 11 different sites throughout our community to keep seniors engaged in the community. Programs range from social and physical activities to nutrition, education and evidence-based courses and opportunities. Help us to continue to provide these important programs by donating to Aging Services.

Telehospice

Telehospice addresses major issues that hospice patients and providers struggle with, the greatest being access to immediate care. When a situation arises that would typically require medical attention, patients will contact their nurse or our call center staffed by clinicians. If a patient and/or their caregiver feel it is an urgent situation and a nurse or physician is unable to provide immediate in-person medical care, such as with rural patients where the driving distance is further, or patients in a city who feel they have an immediate need they will now be able to visually connect with the clinicians in our call center. Every patient is different and has unique needs, however, some patient needs are more immediate or more frequent than others. Videoconferencing technology will allow clinical staff better communication with these patients who may need additional attention from time to time. Family members will no longer have to wait anxiously for a nurse to arrive, or struggle over the phone to describe difficult medical issues. Our on-call clinicians will be able to more effectively evaluate issues as they arise by having visual information and a face-to-face conversation, and patients and families will have the comfort of being able to actually see a clinical provider. Telehospice will provide our patients with improved and visual "on demand" care, and will give our senior patients and their families the reassurance that they can access care whenever they are in need. Alive sees a small number of "delayed response" comments on the satisfaction survey that is conducted after a patient's death. With this telehospice project, we expect to show a decrease in those comments.

Care Giver Support

Currently 1 out of every 3 seniors in Washington State have some form of dementia. Many of these people are being cared for by loved ones at home. The amount of hours spent giving care is staggering; this often leads to increased risk to the care giver due to the stresses of caring for their loved one.

The Alzheimer Society of Washington (ASW) currently hosts 25 support groups each month. These support groups offer peer support, education and care giving tips and stress the importance of making sure the care givers take time to care for themselves. Our groups are designed to give care givers a safe and welcoming environment where they can discuss anything and get the support they need to continue to give the best care they can to their loved one.

Unfortunately, even though we offer 25 groups a month, it is not enough to give the support our community needs. As the population of people living with dementia continues to grow and the costs of long term care continue to rise, more and more families are keeping their loved ones home for a longer period of time. These factors are contributing to our groups are beginning to get overcrowded. In order to continue serving our families at a high level, we desperately need to start more more groups. However, our current resources are stretched to capacity.

Our need is clear: We need more support groups and more people to facilitate them. Our goal is to start an additional FIVE support groups within the next year. In order to do this, we need to develop a robust training program and identify facilitators for them. In order to do this we will need funding to create the training program, including training materials, train new facilitators and establish a quality control mechanism to ensure that all new groups are being facilitated in a manner conducive to our ASW's mission.

Terrific Tuesdays Day Club

Terrific Tuesdays Day Club program is staffed with a paid director, trained community volunteers and nursing students from local universities. This program is designed to meet the needs of both the person with dementia and their caregiver. Members have a sense of engagement while participating in memory-enhancing activities honoring their life stories. This program allows them the opportunity to reminisce and socialize with others while participating in non-aerobic exercise and creative, purposeful activities. They are also able to experience sensory stimulation and cook simple meals.
Research proves that cognitive and social stimulation improves mood and cognition and delays regression of activities in daily living for individuals with dementia. This means caregivers are able to give care at home for longer and delay residential facility placement. Caregivers also benefit with a break to recharge, relax, maintain relationships with friends, and maintain their own health by keeping up with personal doctor visits and more.

Help Safely Transport Seniors In Our Community!

Amherst Senior Transportation Service (ASTS) is committed to providing a special system of transportation to enhance the quality of life and promote the independence of Amherst residents, 55 years of age and older. Your donation will help us safely transport seniors with an updated fleet which is the costliest and most valuable hard asset of our organization. In March of 2016 a donation contributed toward the purchase of a brand new vehicle. Over a period of 7 months, that vehicle logged 20,000 miles which included more than 3,000 trips to medical appointments and grocery stores for seniors who would otherwise be unable to get out in the community.
Thank you for supporting this often overlooked but very necessary nonprofit transportation service!

Rose Kleiner Center

The Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center in Mountain View is a supportive, caring adult day health program that encourages the vitality and well-being of less-independent older adults, enabling them to stay at home and avoid premature institutionalization. It also offers much needed respite for families. In this professional yet warm setting, adults living with a chronic disease, dementia, or a disability receive individualized therapeutic, social, and health services for some part of the day. Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center is licensed by the State of California to provide two levels of daytime care-adult day care and adult day health care. We want to make sure that everyone can attend regardless of the cost. Funds will subsidize care for low income seniors.

Purchase of a Center Van

The Belgrade Senior Center does not offer transportation to clients at this time. We would use the van in a number of ways. We would transport seniors to and from the center for meals, social activities, educational workshop and seminars, and local outings like shopping trips and sight seeing opportunities. It breaks my heart when one of our seniors loses their ability to drive because of age related issues. They are left with very few options for attending activities and meals at the center and just getting out in general. Currently, we do have a Meals on Wheels program but not all our seniors need that once they are unable to drive. What they do need is a way to stay involved in life. A van for the Belgrade Senior Center could make a huge difference in many of our seniors lives by allowing them to stay active, involved with their friends and part of a bigger community.

Benedictine Health Center of Minneapolis Outdoor Beautification Project

The Benedictine Health Center Minneapolis (BHCM) is raising funds for an outdoor beautification project that would make our enclosed patio space more life-giving and calming for relaxation, quiet time, visiting, eating and reflection. We believe that improved landscaping to our patio would uplift our seniors and patients at many levels of health and recovery.

BHCM is located on the southeastern edge of downtown Minneapolis, in a culturally and economically diverse area known as Elliot Park. Patients receive a variety of care from us including respiratory and ventilator care, short-term rehabilitation and palliative care. Underlying the range of medical conditions the facility deals with is the prevalence of patients who demonstrate challenging behaviors due to mental illness or substance abuse.

Through our care and programming, we strive to open doors to beauty and fun for each person as they deal with their challenges and health issues. Trio Landscaping is partnering with us to bring this project alive for our residents and families. They donated their expertise and service by giving us a landscaping plan and are helping us lean into their network and relationships to secure other donations and assistance.

Volunteer Home Services

The primary goal of Benevilla's Volunteer Home Services (VHS) program is to improve the well-being and help maintain the independence of adults we serve who are seniors and/or have disabilities. This is accomplished through the dedication of our volunteers, who provide free supportive services, including:

Assisted Transportation: Our volunteers provide door-through-door transportation services, not only ensuring that our members get to all of their medical appointments safely, but also waiting for them during their appointments, picking up a prescription if needed, and then driving them home.

Grocery Shopping: Many seniors are not able to drive to the grocery store to buy food, so our volunteers will do their shopping for them or with them, to ensure they have the food they need. Feeding America indicates that food-insecure adults have an increased risk of developing diabetes, and food insecurity is associated with a range of chronic illnesses such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and various cardiovascular risk factors. Our volunteers also go to the pharmacy as needed for our members to ensure they have the medication they require.

Minor Home Repairs: As individuals age, it becomes harder for them to undertake basic repairs that their house and/or appliances need. Often these seniors also live on a fixed income, which makes hiring a repairman difficult. Therefore, our members can request assistance from one of our handy volunteers to undertake home/appliance repairs they need to keep their house in good condition.

Business Assistance: Our Volunteer Home Services members also often request help with what we call "business assistance," which means help in paying their bills, completing paperwork for benefits, etc. Many times one person in the relationship balances the check book and pays the bills. When that person passes away our volunteers help educate the member on how to balance a check book, how to pay their bills, and various other tasks.

Friendly Visitor/Phone Pal Visits: Benevilla's caring volunteers offer weekly in-person and/or over-the-phone companionship and socialization for homebound members to help them ward off the depression that many isolated, homebound seniors develop.

This program directly impacts the population of senior adults and individuals with disabilities throughout the Phoenix West Valley. In 2017, Benevilla volunteers provided more than 1,244 grocery deliveries, 2,625 escorted rides, and 654 in-person/phone visits. We are proud to report the VHS program serves more than 540 unduplicated individuals each year, providing multiple services throughout the year to the vast majority of program members.

Community Need: A Growing Senior Population that Wants to Remain in their Homes
The American Association of Retired People has recently found that nearly 90% of seniors prefer to remain in their homes and communities as they age. However, adults who are elderly and/or disabled face many challenges that limit their ability to live independently, including illnesses or disabilities; vision and/or hearing loss; social isolation; hunger and nutrition deficits; weakness and declined physical ability; lack of transportation; and poverty. Benevilla sees these issues daily among those we serve.

Blair Senior Services Home Delivered Meals

There are family members, neighbors and friends in our community with limited resources who need your help. As we age, things that we take for granted such as bathing, a hot meal and transportation, become a real challenge. Unfortunately, government funding is not sufficient to meet the needs that exist in our community. The Home Delivered Meals Program is one of the most basic ways that Blair Senior Services, Inc. can accomplish its mission of meeting the nutritional needs and improving and maintaining the health and well-being of older individuals in our community. Over the last year, the Agency has served some 10,000 consumers. Of those consumers, 7,000 are older individuals, the majority of which have incomes near or below the poverty level. We're asking for your help as our Agency strives to continue to our county's older residents.

Miles of SMiles

SMiles is raising funds to continue providing older adults in rural Blount County the opportunity to improve their quality of life and reduce their vulnerability. Senior-friendly transportation that's affordable, adaptable and convenient keeps the elderly independent and retains their dignity once they no longer are able to drive. SMiles volunteers use their personal vehicles to take members wherever they'd like to go within this rural Tennessee county. A total of 23,000 trips have been made within the past five years, covering over 126,000 miles!

Even though volunteers provide the essential transportation for SMiles, operating costs are still present. Software, insurance, staffing, mileage reimbursements - they all add up each year. It's important that SMiles is financially sound so folks can rely on it for years' to come.

LivingWell Fitness

Bridges is requesting support for our Adult Education & Outreach programming which offers a variety of programs, including ASL classes in three levels; workshops and trainings on Deaf language, Deaf culture, and working with the Deaf and hard of hearing communities, assistive device trainings, and employer orientations; special trainings for first responders. Adult Education & Outreach also hosts Community Building programs such as Game Days and field trips for Deaf and hard of hearing adults and is working to develop a Deaf mentor program in conjunction with our youth program. Games Days and community outings provide our senior clients with important opportunities for engagement with their community and each other!

Under Adult Education & Outreach, Bridges also offers LivingWell, our fitness center with classes and personal trainers fully accessible to the Deaf and hard of hearing, as well as a series of educational presentations, workshops, physical fitness assessments, classes, consultations, and social gatherings.

Empowerment & Advocacy, a critical piece of Adult Education & Outreach, provides services such as education advocacy, job training and placement assistance, self-advocacy support, housing, healthcare access, resource referral, and much more. Empowerment & Advocacy also hosts a series of educational workshops and events such as Domestic Violence, Legal Rights, Living Wills, VITA (tax prep assistance), etc.

Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing hopes to serve at least 150 clients through our Empowerment & Advocacy program during FY 2018. LivingWell | Fitness center will serve 90 individual clients and most will meet at least one mutually-determined fitness goals.