Overview
A Caring Place consists of 3 distinct programs: A Welcome Center, Phone Comfort Care, and Home Visits. We also help participants who desire, to become acquainted and orient them to other community venues, such as the Lexington Senior Center (you will not be alone, as we will go to the Center with you, until you feel comfortable in independently attending). We also help with completing and submitting applications to various community resources, such as Meals on Wheels or Wheels.
A Caring Place consists of 3 distinct programs: A Welcome Center, Phone Comfort Care, and Home Visits. We also help participants who desire, to become acquainted and orient them to other community venues, such as the Lexington Senior Center (you will not be alone, as we will go to the Center with you, until you feel comfortable in independently attending). We also help with completing and submitting applications to various community resources, such as Meals on Wheels or Wheels.
Telephone Comfort Care and Home Visits
During the corona virus pandemic, our Home Visits will be suspended. However, our Telephone Comfort Care Volunteers are working over time to reach out to those who are socially isolated, which now seems to include all of us. We urge you to volunteer to help us, or to refer someone (perhaps you?) who would benefit by a cheery phone call now and then, and bring a little sunshine into your life. For those who qualify, we also will bring you a hot lunch! Contact us to see if that could be you!!!! |
Welcome Center
We are working with the Youth Movement Against Alzheimer's at the University of Kentucky and have implemented a Virtual Welcome Center. Currently, we meet for one hour every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m., but the interest shown in this program means we will be increasing the number of days we meet. Stay tuned! Loneliness is a killer. Literally! Persistent loneliness can kill someone as easily as smoking a pack a day of cigarettes. We intend to mitigate the cycle of loneliness by introducing an inter generational approach to our interactions. Sounds new, but this is how many of us prior to the 1960’s grew up, sometimes 4 generations living in the same house. And, a few families currently experience that type of multiple generations living close to each other or with each other. Any one with that experience can acknowledge the blessings that flow both ways, with the young learning from the old, and the old reinvigorated through the young. The benefits of building interactions between young adults and the senior community are many:
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