Services

Congregate Meals:  A nutritionally balanced meal is available five days a week at lunchtime. 

Home-Delivered Meals: Meals, which are nutritionally balanced, meets 1/3 of the daily Recommended Dietary Allowance, and are delivered to the clients home.    Usually five to seven meals per week per person will be delivered.

Frozen meals:  Nutritionally balanced frozen meals, meets 1/3 of the daily Recommended Dietary Allowance.  Usually family member or designated person picks up the meals (2-4 weeks supply).

Transportation:  Vehicles and drivers are available to help older persons go where they need to go, like shopping, to the doctors, and the senior citizen centers.

Recreation:  Various activities are provided at the centers.  Among the favorite activities are:  playing Uno and Rook, Bingo, pool, checkers, and making crafts.  Occasionally, trips are planned.

Education:  Planned sessions to inform older people about a variety of concerns, including health care, consumerism, and financial management.  Additionally, information about academic and vocational studies in the community is available.

Health Promotion Services:  Help is available for finding and using medical services, together with assistance in understanding procedures for private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs.

Nutrition Education:  Information on nutrition, shopping, diet, food preparation, and nutrition-related diseases.

Friendly Visits:  Regular visits from a professional or a volunteer to persons who are socially or geographically isolated in order to comfort or help.

Telephone Reassurance:  Regular phone calls to people whom live alone, or are temporarily alone, to make sure they are safe and well.

Information and Assistance: Provides individuals with current information on opportunities and services available to the individuals within their communities. Individuals linked up with services needed and followed up to ensure that services are received.

Outreach: Identification of potential clients or their caregivers and encouraging their use of existing services and benefits. to make others aware of services available to older Kentuckians.

Risk Assessment:  Health, Medication, Nutrition, and Injury Control:  Home injury control services which includes screening of high risk home environments and provision of educational programs on injury prevention (including fall and fracture prevention in the home environment.   Senior center managers provide Nutrition Risk Surveys to senior center participants and other elderly individuals located through outreach services. Senior Center managers locate health professionals to provide medication management screening and education to prevent incorrect medications and adverse drug reactions. 

Exercise, Self-Help, Stress Management, and Weight Loss: Health promotion programs provided by the senior centers that may include physical fitness and exercise programs, group exercises and dance movement therapy.  Other health promotion programs may include programs related to chronic disabling conditions, such as osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases.   

Legal Services:  Legal advice and representation by an attorney for persons with economic or social needs.

Benefits Counseling:  The Benefits Counseling Program recruits and trains volunteers across the state to become Benefits Counselors.  The Benefits Counselors provide older Kentuckians individual, one-on-one assistance with the often complicated and confusing red tape of Medicare, Medicaid, and other public and private programs. 

Ombudsman Services: Long-term Care Ombudsmen are advocates for residents of nursing homes, board and care homes, assisted living facilities and similar adult care facilities.  They work to resolve problems of individual residents and to bring about changes at the local, state and national levels to improve care.  While most residents receive good care in long-term care facilities, far too many are neglected, and other unfortunate incidents of psychological, physical and other kinds of abuse do occur.  Thus, thousands of trained volunteer ombudsmen regularly visit long-term care facilities, monitor conditions and care, and provide a voice for those unable to speak for themselves.  http://www.klaid.org/ombudsman

Elder Abuse Prevention: On behalf of long-term residents or their families, the program provides elder abuse prevention services to all residents who reside in long-term care facilities, which includes family care and personal care homes.  Residents and staff will be offer and provided with elder abuse education materials and the availability of Ombudsman services.

Assessment:  A trained case manager will collect in-depth information about a client’s situation and activities of daily living so a comprehensive plan of care can be made to meet his or her needs.

Case Management: A trained case manager will maintain client contact to ensure that appropriate, comprehensive, and timely services are being received.

Homemaker Home Management: Housekeeping services to aid a person in activities of daily living such as cleaning, shopping and laundry.

Personal Care: Services to aid the client in personal care activities such as bathing, dressing and hair care. 

Escort:  The personal accompaniment of a client who is physically, mentally, or developmentally disabled who requires such assistance for reasons of personal security or protection to and/or from a visit to their physician, dentist, or other essential services.

Homemaker Services:  General household services (shopping, meal preparation, and routine household care) provided by a homemaker when the individual regularly responsible for these activities is temporarily absent or unable to manage the home and care for themselves or others in the house.

Respite Care:  Care provided to an individual by an approved person (someone the case manager and the client may agree upon) over an extended period of time because of the absence or need for temporary relief of those normally providing the care.  Respite Care services may be provided in the individual's home for up to 24-hour periods.

Adult Day Services: This program provides supervision and care during the day, assists with self-administration of medications, personal care services, self-care training, social activities, and recreation.

Adult Day Health Services: This program is a licensed facility that provides continuous supervision of the participant’s medical and health needs.

Alzheimer’s Respite Service: This program provides supervision and care to a person with Alzheimer’s Disease or a related dementing disease to give the caregiver temporary relief from caregiving duties.

The Barren River Area Agency on Aging is a public non-profit agency,
Designated by the state to address the needs and concerns of all older Americans at the local level.