Serving Our Seniors Magazine July - Sept 2023

Serving Our Seniors REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY 2,644 Total Number of Calls to Serving Our Seniors Asking for Help 1,238 Individual Older Adults Who Called for Help with a Question/Problem/Concern 202 New Older Adults calling to Ask for Help for the First Time Nutrition 7,804 Rural Home Delivered Meals funded by Serving Our Seniors 0 Rural Lunch Groups met on Kelley’s Island during January – March 2023 137 Older adults used weekday transportation funded by Serving Our Seniors 2,506 1-way trips were taken by older adults who paid a bus fare of $1.50 39 Older adults used weekday transportation at a reduced bus fare of .50 per 1-way trip 1,051 Trips were provided to the 33 people for .50 per 1-way trip 37 Older adults used Out of Town Transportation to get to their health care appointments. 55 Trips were driven to take the 33 older adults to their health care appointments 1 Older adult was given a gas voucher so they could afford to travel out of town to their health care appointments, when we were short on volunteer drivers 2 Older adults took 3 trips using our wheelchair transportation for out of town health care appointments Affordable Transportation 10 Small Home Repairs 0 New Ramps Installed 139 Ramps in Service throughout Erie County Services to Support Independent Living at Home Education Offered 191 Medicare Counseling Sessions January 2023 – March 2023 From the Director We have a lot going on July through September 20203. Be sure to tear out the Calendar of Events page and post it on your refrigerator, so you can plan to attend. For starters, the three lovely women who appear on the cover of the magazine, Darlene Walk, Lolita Hayes and Dawn Washington will be at Senior Fest 2023, singing a classic rock concert. Senior Fest is a celebration of being age 60 and better. For more details read page 15. Thank you to all readers who acted on my plea for help and mentioned something to businesses advertising in Serving Our Seniors Magazine; and for thanking existing advertisers for their advertising support. It made a difference! As you can see, we raised enough money through advertising sales to keep this issue to 24 pages. The future of Serving Our Seniors Magazine is still in flux. Would you do me the favor of reading page 9 and giving me your feedback as I seek ways to make Serving Our Seniors Magazine a self-supporting publication. On the Calendar of Events on page 4, as well as, page 6, you will learn what Serving Our Seniors is doing to bring geriatric medicine expertise to Erie County. I hope you will join me when Serving Our Seniors hosts three geriatric medicine specialists to speak on a range of topics to help you grow older well. Enjoy your summer and I look forward to seeing you all soon! Sue Daugherty 3