Serving Our Seniors Magazine

Caring Hands for Seniors Offers Wheelchair Transportation Serving Our Seniors has been making public pleas to retirees to volunteer, one day per month, to drive a functionally, independent, Erie County resident, age 60+ to an out of town health care appointment. We are proud to introduce to you our three newest heroes , who have come to our rescue. All have passed a criminal background check, drug test, driving assessment and are now volunteering to help their peers maintain their health by getting them to health care appointments located out of town. Most trips are as far as Cleveland or Toledo, and anywhere in between. Although on rare occasions requests are sometimes much farther away. Vince recently moved to Erie County from the Cleveland area. He said he decided to volunteer after he read about it in Serving Our Seniors Magazine April-June 2022 issue. “I used WR YROXQWHHU KHOSLQJ SHRSOH ¿OH WKHLU WD[ UHWXUQV 7KLV JHWV PH out of the house and I know the Cleveland area really well. I’m glad I can help.” 7KHVH YROXQWHHU GULYHUV DUH KHOSLQJ WR ¿OO D ELJ YRLG )URP April to May 2022 we had to turn down 6 requests for transportation to health care appointments, because of a lack Meet Your Newest Out of Town Transportation HEROES! of volunteers. Will you please donate 1 day per month? You pick the day. No holidays, no weekends. Drive a Serving Our Seniors car. For more information about volunteering call Brenda at 419-624-1856. Ranae & Keith Seely own and operate Caring Hands for Seniors, LLC. It is a small business that provides older adults with caregivers to assist with caregiving, meal prep and shopping. Keith does small home repairs, lawn mowing and snow removal. They have been in business for eight years. Recently, Ranae and Keith purchased a wheelchair van and received DRIVE training. This is specialized training through the Ohio Department Aging for transporting older adults who are wheelchair dependent. Serving Our Seniors is using Caring Hands for Seniors, LLC to provide wheelchair transportation for Erie County residents, age 60+, so they can access health care located out of town. This service transports wheelchair clients, whose destination is beyond the travel area of Sandusky Transit System. (OLJLELOLW\ LV UHVWULFWHG WR WKRVH FRQ¿QHG WR D ZKHHOFKDLU yet are functionally independent. Meaning, the person can maneuver his/her own wheelchair after exiting the van, able to manage their own doctor appointment, able to manage their own toileting needs and are living outside of an assisted living facility or nursing home. Serving Our Seniors is making this available at a cost of an anonymous donation. The donation is to be made to Serving Our Seniors, not Caring Hands for Seniors, LLC. For more information about Serving Our Seniors Out of Town Transportation Program to health care appointments call Serving Our Seniors 419-624-1856 . Ask to speak with a Senior Advocate Assistant. Caring Hands for Seniors, LLC can be hired by individuals to provide private fee-for-service, wheelchair transportation for a variety of reasons, i.e.,: Weddings, parties, Thanksgiving, Christmas, for local doctor appointments, etc… They can also provide caregiving assistance to wheelchair dependent passengers, who are not functionally independent. For more information about Caring Hands for Seniors, LLC and their other services call Ranae Seely at 419-656-5062 . (L-R) Vince Apanovitch, Mary Warren and Scott Krewson. Keith and Ranae Seely. 10