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Volunteers may provide transportation to essential services and appointments, run errands, assist with grocery and personal shopping, or pick up prescriptions, plan a regular phone visit or home visit to provide friendly and supportive listening, prepare/deliver a weekly meal or treat, perform general yard work or light housekeeping, and/or provide respite for caregiver.

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Paratransit Driver Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Recruitment/Placement
Housekeeping Assistance
Yard Maintenance Volunteer Opportunities
Children's In Home Respite Care
Friendly Telephoning Volunteer Opportunities
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Respite/Home Health Care Volunteer Opportunities
Incontinence Supplies
Adult In Home Respite Care
Conversation Partner Volunteer Opportunities
* Provides licensed professional/paraprofessional assistance to older adults who require care in their homes. Services include: Customized care plans. Post surgery monitoring. In-home respite. Assistance with personal care. Housekeeping, chore service, meal preparation. Errands and transportation to appointments.

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Adult In Home Respite Care
Housekeeping Assistance
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Personal Care
* Offers someone who can assist with a listening ear or a helping hand when the primary caregiver cannot be there.* Provides respite care that offers short term breaks that relieve stress, restore energy, and promote balance in your life for the family.* Provides shopping assistance for groceries, personal items, gifts and prescriptions.* Provides meal preparation, laundry service, making beds and changing linens, tidying up, running errands, and medication reminders.* Offers transportation to doctors' visits, dialysis procedure, trips to the hairdresser or barber, or just visiting a friend.

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Senior Ride Programs
In Home Meal Preparation
Adult In Home Respite Care
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Housekeeping Assistance
Personal Care
Provides a comprehensive program of in-home services for functionally impaired individuals 60 years of age and older. Services include case management, in-home services (housekeeping and personal care), in-home respite, and ancillary services.

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Housekeeping Assistance
Case/Care Management
Personal Care
Adult In Home Respite Care
* Provides individuals the connection to assistance necessary to stay in the home including:
  • Non medical personal care
  • Housekeeper/chore services
  • Case management
  • Information and referral services
*Allows individuals the opportunity to choose what services they receive through Consumer Directed EISEP.

*Provides linkage to outside agencies who will perform these services.

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Personal Care
Case/Care Management
Information and Referral
Housekeeping Assistance
College and high school students offer assistance to senior residents (65+) in the towns of Owego and Apalachin on a designated Saturday in the spring. Contact Sr. Mary for sign-up. Volunteers rake leaves, complete other outdoor yardwork, wash windows, inside and out (first floor only), do interior cleaning, vacuuming, etc.

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Housekeeping Assistance
General Yard Work
Provides eligible older persons with a variety of non-medical, in-home services that may help them to remain at home. Services include case management, housekeeping/chore assistance, personal care, and respite for caregivers.

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Case/Care Management
Adult In Home Respite Care
Homemaker Assistance
Personal Care
Housekeeping Assistance
An alternative to "traditional home care/personal care", CDPA allows eligible individuals to hire and direct their own personal care workers (including most family members, a neighbor or friend), to assist with bathing, dressing, eating, and other daily tasks. Eligibility is determined by the appropriate county entity. CDPA believes there's no place like home.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
In Home Meal Preparation
Personal Care
Housekeeping Assistance
Provides free voluntary assistance to older adults (over 60 yrs): transportation, shopping, friendly visits, light housekeeping and yard work.

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Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Housekeeping Assistance
Homemaker Assistance
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Conversation Partner Volunteer Opportunities
General Yard Work
Senior Ride Programs
Errand Running/Shopping Volunteer Opportunities
Friendly Telephoning Volunteer Opportunities
Home Visit Volunteer Opportunities
Home delivered meals are available to seniors unable to get to the dining centers. Transportation is also provided to the dining centers, shopping assistance, information and referral services, and recreational activities. Services available include delicious and nutritious meals at 6 Senior Dining Centers: Delhi 607-746-2250 Grand Gorge 607-588-6166 Hancock 607-637-2219 Margaretville 845-586-4764 Sidney 607-563-2212 Walton 607-865-6739

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Senior Ride Programs
Home Delivered Meals
Housekeeping Assistance
Senior Centers
Congregate Meals/Nutrition Sites
Meal Preparation/Serving Volunteer Opportunities
Meal Delivery Volunteer Opportunities
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
* Assists seniors and individuals with disabilities with supportive in home assistance not typically funded by traditional supportive agencies and services.

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Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Personal Care
Homemaker Assistance
Housekeeping Assistance
Provides list of older adult job seekers 55+ yrs to people seeking personal care, companions, assistance with chores, handyman and homemaking assistance. Long-term, short-term or one-time jobs. Senior helpers are paid by the people requesting the jobs. People interested in hiring are encouraged to screen senior helpers.

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General Yard Work
Senior Ride Programs
Adult In Home Respite Care
Senior Companion Program
Homemaker Assistance
Pet Boarding/Sitting Services
Residential Snow Shoveling
Housekeeping Assistance
Home Health Aide Services
Disability Related Transportation
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
In Home Meal Preparation
* Provides light housekeeping and shopping every 2 weeks.
* Offers volunteer support services free of charge to elderly and disabled individuals without adequate assistance from family, friends, and neighbors. * Provides information and referrals to appropriate resources or agencies. Volunteers provide services such as transportation, grocery shopping, friendly visits, and yard work.

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Friendly Visiting
Housekeeping Assistance
Disability Related Transportation
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Adult In Home Respite Care
Program services include housekeeping, home safety, and errands for frail elderly people.

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Housekeeping Assistance
Errand Running / Shopping Assistance
A youth operated seasonal assistance program for older adults, operating in July and August of each year. Youth can assist with yard work, home cleaning, and specific household tasks at no cost to older adults in need of help. Tasks that youth can help with include window washing, annual cleaning, small outdoor painting projects, yard cleanup, garage cleanout, mulching, and more.
Volunteers who serves United States and Canada offering free house cleaning to women undergoing treatment for any type of cancer. Services offer 4 free cleanings during a 4-month period. Cleaning is once per month for each cleaning. It is a basic cleaning, not a Spring clean or deep cleaning.
Case managers provide a comprehensive in-home assessment to determine the client's needs and link them with the appropriate community services, programs and entitlements that help them age safely in their homes. New York State and Nassau County funding may provide up to 20 hours of aide assistance weekly. Chore workers can provide a few hours of light housekeeping and shopping for those who do not require hands on care.

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Activities of Daily Living Assessment
Errand Running / Shopping Assistance
In Home Assistance
Medicaid
Geriatric Assessment
Case / Care Management
In Home Supportive Services Applications
Housekeeping Assistance
Senior Companion Program
Offers help with errands, paperwork and de-cluttering management, computer/electronic technology services, household tasks, garden help, pet or plant care, and light home maintenance. Also provides consultation if more daily living care is necessary, along with referrals to resources in the community that may be needed.

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Secretarial Assistance
Errand Running / Shopping Assistance
Housekeeping Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Yard Maintenance
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Provides a variety of specialized protective services to vulnerable adults, ages 18 and older whose condition or circumstances make them vulnerable to abuse, neglect, and exploitation by others. These services are designed to prevent or remedy the neglect, exploitation, or abuse of vulnerable adults by strengthening their capacity to function and be self-directing. Services include: homemaker services, home management, housing improvement, housekeeper chores, adult residential services, and health related services.

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Home Management Instruction
Adult Protective Services
Adult Residential Care Homes
Housekeeping Assistance
Homemaker Assistance
A year round service that works as a liaison between Amherst residents who need assistance with extra jobs in or around their home and Amherst youth ages 12-20 who are interested in working with these residents. Teens fill out an application indicating what kind of work they are willing to do. Residents call to make a request for assistance, detailing the kind of work they need done. A teen participant is then contacted about the job possibility and given the details of the job and the contact information for the resident. The teen contacts the resident to discuss the date/time of the job. Due to safety concerns, requests for work involving climbing ladders, roof work, carrying heavy/large objects up or down stairs, or anything that would require driving are not honored. Work opportunities available include: raking, shoveling, mowing, weeding, gardening, tutoring, errand running, pet care, child care, assisting elderly/disabled, computer tutoring, basement/garage cleaning, help with parties, and light housework.

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Errand Running / Shopping Assistance
Youth Employment Programs
In Home Child Care
Yard Maintenance
Residential Snow Shoveling
Housekeeping Assistance
Dog Walking Services
Provides non-medical support services for the frail elderly patients, including case management services, helps with entitlements, subsidized housekeeping, bed and bath program, and running errands.

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Errand Running / Shopping Assistance
Case / Care Management
Housekeeping Assistance
A database for information and referrals of local and surrounding agencies that assist to meet the needs of senior citizens.

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Friendly Telephoning
General Yard Work
Hospital Beds
Wheelchairs/Wheeled Mobility
Meal Delivery Volunteer Opportunities
Home Visit Volunteer Opportunities
Senior Ride Programs
Home Delivered Meals
Housekeeping Assistance
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Respite/Home Health Care Volunteer Opportunities
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Provides non-medical services needed to enable older persons to remain at home, delaying care in long-term facility or nursing home.

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Case/Care Management
Personal Care
Housekeeping Assistance
Activities of Daily Living Assessment
Caregiver Training
Adult In Home Respite Care
Provides case management, in-home personal care, Telephone Lifeline, housekeeping, and day care subsidies for non-Medicaid eligible senior citizens

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Housekeeping Assistance
Personal Care
Telephone Reassurance
Case/Care Management