Serving Our Seniors Magazine April - June 2023

Serving Our Seniors REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY 3,033 Total Number of Calls to Serving Our Seniors Asking for Help 1,754 Individual Older Adults Who Called for Help with a Question/Problem/Concern 267 New Older Adults calling to Ask for Help for the First Time Nutrition 8,178 Rural Home Delivered Meals 112 Older adults attended rural Lunch Groups on Kelley’s Island during October – December 2022 172 Older adults used weekday transportation funded by Serving Our Seniors 2,320 1-way trips were taken by older adults who paid a bus fare of $1.50 33 Older adults used weekday transportation at a reduced bus fare of .50 per 1-way trip 741 Trips were provided to the 33 people for .50 per 1-way trip 38 Older adults used Out of Town Transportation to get to their health care appointments. (Volunteer drivers resumed driving in July 2021) 43 Trips were driven to take the 33 older adults to their health care appointments 2 Older adults were given gas vouchers so they could afford to travel to out of town health care appointments, when we were short on volunteer drivers 3 Older adults took 3 trips using our wheelchair transportation Affordable Transportation 14 Small Home Repairs 11 New Ramps Installed 146 Ramps in Service throughout Erie County Services to Support Independent Living at Home Education Offered 582 Medicare Counseling Sessions OCTOBER 1, 2022 – DECEMBER 31, 2022 From the Director We need your involvement…. Since late 2022, the number of businesses advertising in the magazine have been declining. The more pages in the magazine, the more it costs to print and to mail. It is the advertisers who cover the cost of printing and mailing 19,000 copies of Serving Our Seniors Magazine . It is our advertisers who pay for an additional 500 magazines to be printed and made available at various locations throughout Erie County. If our advertisers do not increase with the next issue, we will have to print a smaller magazine. Would you help us by telling businesses that you noticed their ad in Serving Our Seniors Magazine ? Make a point to thank the advertiser for their help covering the cost so the magazine is free of charge to you and delivered to your mailbox. If you notice a business is no longer advertising in this issue, let them know that you missed seeing them in Serving Our Seniors Magazine. Tell them how much you enjoy receiving this publication and that you read it cover to cover. (If that is what you do.) Finally, be sure to read about our upcoming spring show – Serving Our Seniors’ Sonny & Cher Show (pg 10, 11). We haven’t had the spring show since 2019. Normally, we attract an audience of 300 people. This year, to celebrate its comeback, we want to sell tickets to 600 people. If you have attended in the past, then you know it’s a blast. Tell your family and friends and ask them to help us break the spring show attendance record. We hope you will buy your ticket to Serving Our Seniors’ Sonny & Cher Show, today. Sincerely, Sue Daugherty 3