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Family Caregiver Resource Center
The Family Caregiver Resource Center provides a starting point for services for caregiving families.
The Family Resource Center provides access to information, training, support groups, counseling, resource libraries, respite care and supplemental services to family caregivers of persons 60 years or older, and to grandparents raising grandchildren. Follow-up will be conducted to see if needs were met.
How to figure out your role as CAREGIVER -
 | I provide regular emotional or physical assistance (such as helping with lifting or helping someone move from a bed to a chair) to my spouse, parent, neighbor, adult child or friend. |
| I help a senior pay bills. |
| I shop or do errands for a senior. |
| I drive a senior to the doctor or take him/her to a community center. |
| I remind a senior when to take pills or provide help with personal care. |
| I regularly prepare meals or clean house for a senior. |
Information and Assistance Program This program provides information and assistance for caregivers and potential caregivers and connects these caregivers to the best resources. This can be done on-site, over the phone, or taken to another location. Referrals for this service can come from any source. Funded by Project LIFE Area Agency on Aging, Inc.
Greene County Health Department can refer clients to Project LIFE Area Agency on Aging, Inc. for Gap Filling Services. Gap Filling Services provides assistance to meet individual needs of older persons living in a non-institutional setting for purposes of maintaining independence, providing a safe environment and/or delaying institutionalization. Clients must be age 60 or over, living in a non-institutional setting. Clients must be in economic need and have no other resources to pay for the purchases. Funded by Project LIFE Area Agency on Aging, Inc.
http://www.seniorsprojectlife.org