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Project Care Volunteer Services provides: Consistent and frequent friendly Home Visits to the elderly by dedicated, sensitive and personable volunteers to improve the quality of life of clients. The volunteers --
• Assist with and escort for shopping
• Accompany to doctors’ appointments
• Pay a friendly visit during the week
• Make a Shabbos visit
• Go for a walk
• Provide telephone assurance
Project Care Refers To and Facilitates the following services:
• Thru Bikur Cholim --
Free Medical Equipment, visiting Patients in hospitals, limited Financial Assistance with Medical Expenses
• Educational Programs & Lectures by Phone
• EPIC: Reduced Costs for Prescription drugs
• Food Packages for Shabbos & Holidays deliverd at home
• Food Pantries • Meals-on-Wheels
• MEDIC Alert Pendants (worn at home)
• Project Metropair - Free Repair Service for Seniors
-Free minor home & apartment repairs
-Bath Assist Rail
-Special Bell/ Light Bulb for Hearing-Impaired
• SCRIE (Senior Citizens Rent Increase
Exemption - must be eligible)
• Services for the Blind
• Transportation for senior citizens (Free)
Services For Holocaust Survivors: Ezer L’ Cholim Project for Holocaust Survivors sponsored by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany - offers guidance and assistance for Holocaust Survivors, including all Project Care services plus:
• Luncheons
• Social Worker visits
• Emergency cash assistance towards - home health aides, housekeepers, companions in the home or hospital, medical equipment and adaptive devices, medical and dental bills, emergency rent, and emergency utility payment (based on financial eligibility requirements)
• Blue Card: Emergency Assistance to meet the uncovered costs of medical care and a wide variety of financial problems; Rental Assistance (limited) (Services based on qualifications and requirements)