## **Senior Companion Program**

Now more than ever seniors are in need of a friend. They long for someone to talk to, engage in their favorite hobby with, and even help them get groceries. If you are looking to make a difference in the life of a senior in our community, considering join us in the Senior Companion Program. Senior Companions are independent people over the age of 55 who are looking to add some purpose to their days and are willing to reach out to their fellow seniors who are in need of someone’s help and time. They dedicate compassionate service in making a difference and making a friend at the same time. As a member of our program there is also a small hourly (tax exempt) stipend as well as meal and mileage reimbursement to help offset the costs of volunteering.

Come join our team and together we can bring happiness to the seniors in our area that need our help!

  

  

## Foster Grandparent Program

​Foster Grandparents are role models, mentors and friends. They serve in area schools, preschools and after-school programs helping children learn to read, providing one on one tutoring and guiding children at a critical time in their lives.

  

  

### **Qualifications to become a Foster Grandparent:**

*   55 years of age or older. Willing to serve a minimum of 15 hours a week.
*   Household income below $2,126 a month for a single person and $2,873 a month for a couple (This amount is after medical deductions).
*   Pass a fingerprint background check.

### ​**Benefits:**

*   Foster Grandparents receive a stipend of $3.00 an hour, mileage reimbursement, supplemental accident insurance, a free meal and training.
*   Receive recognition for your efforts
*   Recognition events
*   Be eligible for mileage reimbursement
*   Receive Volunteer Liability Insurance

## **RSVP - Retired Senior Volunteer Program:**

*   Use the experience you have gained over your lifetime to help community organizations meet local needs.
*   Flexibility in choosing when and where you serve.
*   Determine the amount of time you want to give.
*   Utilize your current skills or develop new ones.

### Volunteer Opportunities:

*   American Red Cross
*   George E. Wahlen Veterans Home
*   Telephone Reassurance Callers
*   Bear River Bird Refuge
*   HAFB Retirees Act. Office
*   Transportation Drivers
*   Brigham City Senior Center
*   Heritage Park Care Center
*   Tremonton Community Food Pantry
*   Box Elder Meals on Wheels
*   Hill Aerospace Museum
*   Union Station Museum
*   Box Elder School Tutors
*   Mountain Ridge Assisted Living
*   Weber Co Library Summer Literacy Program
*   CCS Food Bank
*   North Ogden Historical Museum
*   Weber County Animal Shelter
*   Dinosaur Park, George S. Eccles
*   Ogden City Police Department
*   Weber County Archery Park
*   DUP Museum
*   Ogden Nature Center
*   Weber School District Tutors
*   Eccles Community Art Center
*   Ogden School District Tutors
*   Weber County Sport Shooting Complex
*   Elementary School Tutors
*   Perry’s Egyptian Theater
*   Your Community Connection
*   Fraud Squad
*   Senior Center Teachers
*   Friends for Sight
*   Senior Center Nutrition/ Meal Service
*   Friendly Visitors
*   Senior Center Helpers
*   Gardens Assisted Living
*   RSVP Office Volunteers

**For more information, you may call:**

Kim Kloberdanz, Program Coordinator 801-625-3774

Heidi Wade, Director 801-625-3828

Cynthia Jensen- Coordinator: 801-625-3782

Charity Rowberry- Director: 801-625-3865or 1-800-209-2503

[charitym@weberhs.org](mailto:charitym@weberhs.org)

AmeriCorps Seniors

### Have you considered participating in a clinical trial?

Clinical trials are part of research and at the heart of all medical advances. Clinical trials look at new ways to prevent, detect, or treat disease. Clinical trials can study new drugs or new combination of drugs, new medical devices, new ways to use exisiting treatments, or ways to change behaviors to improve health. Clinical trials also look at ways to improve the quality of life for people with acute or chronic illnesses.

  

The goal of clinical trials is to determine if these treatments, preventions and behavior approaches are safe and effective. Taking part in clinical research helps contribute to moving science forward or to possibly recieve the newest treatment. Clinical trials offer hope for many people and a chance to help researchers find better treatments for others in the future.

  

Aspen Clinical Research was founded in 2007 and was the first community based research center in Orem, Utah. We partner with highly skilled, experienced physicians to diversity our therapeutic areas of research specialities. Some of these specialties include Women's & Men's Health, Heart Care, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease, Diabetes, Hypertension, Chronic Pain Syndrome, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Insomnia, Depression, Anxiety, Atopic Dermatitis, Autoimmune Disorders, Obesity and more.

  

We are proud to have successfully helped our clinical partners expedite many pharmaceutical product and devices through the development process safely and efficiently.

Groundbreaking scientific advances in the present and the past were possible only because of participation of volunteers, both healthy and those with an illness. Research opens new doors to finding ways to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure disease and disability. Clinical trial participation is essential to help us find the answers. Compensation for time and travel is also available with many research studies.

Aspen Clinical Research 

Supporting seniors and senior care agencies through sourcing quality caregivers. Champa Caregivers provides caregiver recruitment in the senior care industry by partnering with home care agencies to find the skills they need to help enrich the lives of seniors. At Champa Caregivers, we focus on the front end of the hiring process. Through our proprietary platform, we post job openings, screen caregivers, and set employment interviews very quickly and seamlessly.

  

  

## Our Mission

Support our communities by serving the needs of seniors and caregivers. We strive to support our communities by enriching the lives of seniors with the right caregivers to allow them to safely age at home, surrounding by friends and family.

  

  

## Our Vision

We want to empower every senior in the country to age at home, and find caregivers to support them to stay amongst their friends and family.

We are real people who support our community. Call us and connect with a Care Advisor.

CHAMPA Caregivers

Connecting the right caregivers with the right opportunity.

**Our Mission** - Support our communities by serving the needs of seniors and caregivers. We strive to support our communities by enriching the lives of seniors with the right caregivers to allow them to safely age at home, surrounded by friends and family.

**Our Vision** - We want to empower every senior in the country to age at home, and find caregivers to support them to stay amongst their friends and family.

Please visit our website for more details.

Caregiver Direct

## **Volunteers**

Part of what makes the Sunshine Terrace Foundation unique is the opportunity to have hundreds of volunteers who donate precious time to come visit with our residents and improve their quality of life. Sunshine Terrace Foundation had more than 52,000 volunteer hours of donated service in 2013 and has received many awards for the wonderful volunteer time donated. Come join other volunteers who have won the UALA Hero Award for their love, compassion, commitment and dedication to the senior population!

Call Cory or contact us to volunteer today!

  

  

## **Volunteers needed in these areas:**

**Adopt a Grandparent Program**

Looking for a service opportunity? Adopt a grandparent is a fun program established to allow community members a volunteer opportunity to mingle on a regular basis with the residents of the Sunshine Terrace Community. Some of the benefits include but are not limited to: a great feeling of satisfaction knowing you are helping form a needed bond with someone from your community, an excellent resume builder, added friendships and so much more!

**Assist with an Activity**

Every day the Recreation Therapy department provides therapeutic activities for the residents and can almost always use assistance in these! We ask that volunteers come at least 30 minutes prior to any activity to help gather residents. You must be a registered volunteer to assist with activities.

**Do a Practicum/Internship with us**

Does your major require you to have Practicum or Internship Experience? Come do it with us!

**Plan and Implement Your Own Activity**

Are you part of a unique club, group or organization? Do you have a talent or hobby you would like to share with our residents? We are always looking for community volunteers who are willing to share their talents and abilities with our wonderful residents.

**Hospice Volunteers**

As part of the Sunshine Group, Sunshine Hospice is rich with history and has wonderful opportunities to serve. We welcome both administrative and patient care volunteers who offer companionship, advocacy, friendship and help with daily activities to our patients. Sunshine Hospice also offers opportunities for professional volunteerism such as music therapy and massage therapy.

Sunshine Terrace Foundation

## **AAAs Serve Communities**

One of the OAA’s (Older Americans Act) foundational principles is that the programs and services created to help support consumers in their homes and communities are customized to meet their individual needs. There’s nothing one-size-fits-all about AAAs or the services they offer their clients!

Roles of all AAAs: **Assess community needs and develop and fund programs** that respond to those needs; **educate and provide direct assistance** to consumers about available community resources for long-term services and supports; **serve as portals to care** by assessing multiple service needs, determining eligibility, authorizing or purchasing services and monitoring the appropriateness and cost-effectiveness of services; and **demonstrate responsible fiscal stewardship** by maximizing the use of public and private funding to serve as many consumers as possible.

  

  

## **All AAAs offer five core services under the OAA:**

**ELDER RIGHTS** includes abuse prevention and long-term care ombudsman programs

**CAREGIVERS**

**NUTRITION**

**HEALTH & WELLNESS**

**SUPPORTIVE SERVICES**

*   Information and referral
*   In-home services
*   Homemaker & chore services
*   Transportation
*   Case management
*   Home modification
*   Legal services

  

Below is a list of services provided at **Davis County Health Dept. Family Health and Senior Services Division**. Click on the available links to learn more about the services specifically provided by this local Aging Agency or visit their [website](http://www.daviscountyutah.gov/health/senior-services).

Davis County Health Dept. Family Health and Senior Services Division

Here at Bear River Area Agency on Aging, we are driven by a single goal; to do our part in helping seniors maintain their health and independence in their homes and communities. Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

  

  

## Services include:

*   Meals Assistance
*   Transportation services
*   Veterans Services
*   SHIP Health Insurance Program
*   Senior Volunteer Opportunities
*   Caregiver Support
*   Respite/Adult Day Centers

Bear River Area Agency on Aging

## Alternatives & Caregiver

**Alternatives-** The case manager assists frail, older individuals to remain in their home and not to be prematurely placed in a nursing home. The case manager completes a comprehensive assessment with the individual to determine eligibility, and together they develop a plan of care to meet the individual’s needs. Services include: home health aides, homemakers/personal care, emergency response systems and other services are coordinated to maximize longevity in the individuals own home. For further information, contact Tammy Freston at UBAOG (435) 722-4518

**Caregiver-** The Caregivers Support Program provides information, assistance, support groups, training for caregivers who are caring for a loved one 60 years or older who are suffering chronic long term illness or conditions where the intensity of such care giving creates stress and other informal relief is not sufficient. For further information, contact Tammy Freston at UBAOG (435) 722-4518

Uintah Basin Association of Governments

Weber Area Agency on Aging

Senior centers provide an opportunity for older adults to remain active and engaged in the community. 

  

## Programs and services include:

*   Information about community resources
*   Opportunities for socialization
*   Daily meal
*   Educational presentations
*   Preventative health activities
*   Volunteer opportunities
*   Entertainment and recreational activities

Grantsville Center

The Murray Senior Recreation Center is a recreation center for adults age 55+. The Center offers recreation and leisure-time activities, social services, nutritious meals, and educational, instructional and cultural programs for the general health and well-being of senior adults. There is no membership fee, but some activities have charges to offset the cost.

  

  

## Services & Programs Include:

*   Exercise Classes
*   Canasta
*   Billiards
*   Social Dancing
*   Meals
*   Crafts
*   Exercise Room
*   Pinochle
*   Line Dancing
*   18 Hole Golf Tournaments
*   Trips
*   Bingo
*   Computer Classes
*   Bridge
*   Health Services
*   Transportation
*   Massage Therapy
*   Ceramics

Murray Senior Recreation Center

## We are your life advocates.

Whether you need care or provide care--or will in the future--we offer personalized guidance for today's needs and tomorrow's gaps. 

As the designated Area Agency on Aging for Summit, Utah & Wasatch counties, we provide services and advocate for our senior neighbors. To learn about our services, please see below or call **our Senior Helpline at 801-229-3804.**

Mountainland Department Of Aging & Family Service

A variety of recreational activities may be enjoyed at the Centers. Coordinating to provide focal points where seniors can socialize, receive nutritious meals, supportive services, recreation and classes on various interests and hobbies.

  

  

## Congregate Meals

A meal is served Monday- Friday at 11:30 AM at the Crossroads Senior Centers. To support our program, we encourage our 60 and over recipients to make a suggested donation of $3.00 a meal. For those under 60 a cost of $5.00 is attached to each meal. Please make reservations 24 hours in advance for lunch by calling the senior center that you will be attending.

  

  

## Home Delivered Meals

Home delivered meals are available Monday- Friday. To qualify for Home Delivered Meals, the client must be 60 or over and homebound. Eligibility for meals will be determined by the Case Manager when making a home visit. There is a suggested donation for $3.00 per meal.

  

  

## Medicare Assistance

**SHIP-State Health Insurance Assistance Program**

Counselors provide seniors with free, state counseling services that help seniors understand Medicare, Medicare Advantage Medigap (Medicare supplemental insurance) and Medicaid benefits. Anyone with Medicare related questions is free to call a SHIP’s counselor even if they are not currently enrolled in Medicare.

**SMP- Senior Medicare Patrol**

Coordinator will assist Medicare beneficiaries, and caregivers to prevent, detect, and report healthcare fraud, errors, and abuse through outreach, counseling, and education. They will also go to senior centers and inform senior citizens about the latest scams and fraud that seniors are falling victim to. They also coordinate a group of volunteers to assist them in sharing this information.

**MIPPA- Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act**

Assist low income Medicare beneficiaries apply for programs that make Medicare affordable, such as Medicare prescription plan costs and Medicare B premiums. 

  

  

## Alternatives Program

The case manager assists frail, older individuals to remain in their home and not to be prematurely placed in a nursing home. The case manager completes a comprehensive assessment with the individual to determine eligibility, and together they develop a plan of care to meet the individual's needs. Services include: home health aides, homemakers/personal care, emergency response systems and other services are coordinated to maximize longevity in the individuals own home. For further information, contact Tammy Freston at UBAOG (435) 722-4518

  

  

## Caregiver Support

The Caregivers Support Program provides information, assistance, support groups, training for caregivers who are caring for a loved one 60 years or older who are suffering chronic long term illness or conditions where the intensity of such care giving creates stress and other informal relief is not sufficient. For further information, contact Tammy Freston at UBAOG (435) 722-4518

Crossroads Senior Center

## Meals on Wheels

**Meals for Homebound Seniors** Meals on Wheels nutritious midday meals are delivered to frail and isolated older adults Monday through Friday (weekend meals are delivered Thursday and Friday). Special diets (cut meat, mechanical soft, pureed, no nut, no pork and no seafood) are available. All meals are low-sodium, low-calorie and low-fat.

Each Meals on Wheels applicant is evaluated for program eligibility and additional services needed to assist in living as independently as possible.

Donate to Meals on Wheels online or send your contributions to:

Meals on Wheels 2001 S. State Street, STE S1-600

PO Box 144575 Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4575

Your tax deductible donation helps ensure the ongoing success of the Meals on Wheels program.

**Eligibility**

To be eligible to receive meals you must be:

  

  

*   60 years of age or older
*   Homebound
*   A resident of Salt Lake County
*   Unable to prepare your own meals
*   Without family or other resources to help with meal preparation

Salt Lake County Aging & Adult Services

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Volunteer Opportunities For Seniors

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