Surface area Agency on Aging – Notice of Public Hearing on March 16, 2022

Surface area Agency on Aging FY 2022-23 Expanse Plan Update concluding draft

Area Agency on Aging 2020-2024 Area Programme Update 21-22 – Terminal

Contra Costa County 2020-2024 Area Plan on Crumbling

Contra Costa County Food Resources

Our mission at the Contra Costa Canton Area Agency on Aging (AAA) is to provide leadership in addressing issues that relate to older Californians, to develop community based systems of care that provide services which support independence inside California's interdependent order, and which protect the quality of life of older adults and persons with functional impairments, and to promote citizen involvement in the planning and delivery of service. Committed to identifying services and meeting unmet needs, the AAA works to coordinate existing programs and develop new services by partnering with community organizations and pursuing funding resources which would help to enhance or create new programs.

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Surface area Agency on Aging Information & Aid Helpline
(925) 229-8434
(800) 510-2020
https://ehsd.org/elderly-disabled/information-assistance/

Available to help callers with questions and referrals for food resources in addition to all programs and groups in Contra Costa Canton to assist those sixty and older and disabled adults. Hours open are betwixt 8am to 5pm, Monday through Friday.

Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Plan (HICAP)
(925) 655-1393
https://cchicap.org/

Volition offer services past telephone simply; all public information and classes are cancelled. Please contact the states at number in a higher place or visit our website.

Contra Costa County Advisory Council on Aging
https://ehsd.org/elderly-disabled/advisory-council-on-crumbling/

The ACOA redesigned their concerned neighbor flyer to encourage neighbors to expect in on their older neighbors that they may have business for during the COVID pandemic.

Accessing Meals During Shelter-in-place Ordinance

Contra Costa Canton Food Resources Map
Centralized list of food resource
Senior Nutrition Programme (925) 313-6310

Delight call the Senior Eye sites  straight to pre-club meals for pick-up on the assigned days, as detailed below. If folks have not enrolled in the besiege diet plan in the past, they must complete a required cess form at the senior center when they first receive a frozen meal pack.

Meals on Wheels Diablo Region (MOWDR)
(925) 937-8311

MOWDR provides home delivered meals to Central and E County and operates CC Cafés in Walnut Creek, Rodeo, Crockett, Concord, Pittsburg, and Bay Point.

In conjunction with the City of Concord and Mt. Diablo Unified Schoolhouse District, MOWDR is distributing meals to older adults who are residents of Concord. The Agree Care Program is partnering seniors with volunteers to pick up groceries in addition to the free meals distribution program from the City of Concord.

Additional FOOD Resources

The City of Walnut Creek has launched a new program called, Neighbor Express, where volunteers grocery shop for the folks who are most vulnerable in our community during the "shelter in place" mandate.
https://walnutcreek.neighborexpress.org

Nightingale Home Care, is also offer a complimentary grocery pick-up service to Contra Costa County seniors and disabled adults. This service will choice upwards groceries needed and delivered to the person in demand. There will exist no charge for time and gas but the recipient is responsible for the grocery pecker which volition be charged to their card upon delivery. Contact: (925) 391-3700

Fresh Approach's Mobile Farmers' Market will also continue to offer service every bit an essential food resource in the community. Marketplace routes will exist adjusted to serve one site per metropolis, for a longer flow of time at those sites.

For the nigh updated schedules visit https://world wide web.freshapproach.org/mobilemarket/#schedule.

 Staying Connected during COVID-19

California Department of Aging (CDA) has partnered with The Establish on Aging  to expand the Friendship Line'south ability to have calls from older Californians from any county! The Friendship Line is the only accredited crunch line in the country for older adults, adults living with disabilities, and their caregivers.
If yous, or a loved one, could benefit from a friendly chat, Toll-gratis, 24-hour number: i-800-971-0016.

"Stay Home. Save Lives. Check In." is a new entrada which urges all Californians to check in on vulnerable neighbors with a phone call, text or physically-distanced door knock. The Governor also appear the creation of a statewide hotline — 833-544-2374 — in coordination with the non-profit local 2-1-1 systems, and so that Californians take a 1-stop shop to reply their questions and get assist during this crisis.

California Volunteers has launched their Neighbor-to-Neighbor entrada, which calls on neighbors to be the first line of support for California'south most vulnerable residents who accept been advised to stay at home during the COVID-nineteen pandemic. The Neighbor-to-Neighbor campaign is focused on older adults and promotes ways to safely bank check on your neighbors, family and friends.

Covia – Well Connected Program
Available to any older adults who are limiting their in-person interactions for rubber reasons, simply still want to be connected to others. Activities for older adults in Spanish and English are available from HOME via telephone or computer.

Assistance League of Diablo Valley – TeleCare
TeleCare provides a daily reassurance phone call to housebound people, for the health and welfare of the client, as well every bit for a friendly chat and substitution of ideas. Trained volunteers call clients Monday through Fri mornings, start at 9 a.thou.
(925) 934-0901

Meals on Wheels Diablo Region (MOWDR)
(925) 937-8311
MOWDR also offers The Telephone Reassurance Plan is able to accept on additional referrals to ease social isolation. The Phone Reassurance Plan has expanded capacity to accommodate additional referrals to ease social isolation.

Intendance Direction is still able to provide service over the phone. They are bachelor to help seniors talk through this crisis and to assist connect them with services.

Mobiliy Matters
(925) 284-2207
Mobility Matters is now picking up and delivering groceries and prescriptions for their clients (without in person contact) and likewise helping clients fix individual emergency plans including delivery of emergency atmospheric condition radios. Everyone gets a reassurance telephone call weekly to check in and listen for their needs and concerns and meet as many of their needs as possible directly or by referral. Nosotros also ask if they take any health care concerns and screen for symptoms of COVID-19. All staff is working from habitation, but calls coming into the part and emails go directly to our cell phones/domicile computers, then they can be responded to in a timely manner.

Long-Term Intendance Ombudsman Programme
(925) 685-2070
Intake staff will exist working from home, they volition non be going into any facilities, every facility volition be asked a fix of questions including- what are the discharge plans this week? Enough supplies? Hospice? Calls will exist collected and returned every thirty minutes – complaints and all matters of business concern.

Contra Costa Legal Services (CCSLS)
(925) 609-7900
CCSLS is open and is bachelor by telephone.  Staff is working remotely, so please advise clients to leave a message and their call will exist returned as quickly as possible.

While the courts are airtight during the month of April, we are notwithstanding available to consult with clients about urgent matters such as tenants' rights, prevention of elderberry abuse, and debtors' rights.  We are as well available to aid with Advance Health Care Directives by telephone.

All other less urgent matters and those requiring in-person visits tin be scheduled after the shelter in place has lifted.

Alzheimer'due south Association
(800) 272-3900
Alzheimer's Clan operations continue about. They will reevaluate these measures on an ongoing basis and resume in-person engagements as presently as possible, based on public health guidelines.

Adjustments to services include offer educational programs, support groups, and care consultations online and/or by telephone; a number of programs may be rescheduled too.

For updates on meetings and events, please visit alz.org/norcal

Alzheimer'southward Foundation of America  (866) 232-8484 Toll-Free Helpline, staffed by licensed social workers seven days a week. We have a National Retentiveness Screening Program, which is instrumental when information technology comes to early detection.  People can acquire about that programme by visiting us at (alzfdn.org)

https://alzfdn.org/memory-screening/.

Selection in Aging Programs:

Developed Twenty-four hours Health Care programs –
 Mt. Diablo (925) 682-6330
Bedford Centre (925) 778-4171
Every bit of Friday, March 20, the state has stopped all congregate services and asked our centers to redesign our models of service delivery to meet the health and safe needs of our beloved participants and their caregivers. We are still open up and operational, though in a way that prevents spread and still meets needs. We expect forward to providing support telephonically, electronically, on porches (commitment services) and in homes (where medically necessary).

Multipurpose Senior Services Programme
(925) 682-6300
These programs continue to operate serving all the same people, but in-abode visits are not happening currently in order to reduce exposure. These are intendance management programs and did not provide direct care, so we are non lessening a service, just redesigning information technology to see the challenges of the time.

California Community Transitions Program
(925) 778-4171
We continue to provide transitions out of skilled nursing facilities back to customs living. We have converted to an almost entirely telephonic and electronic/video coordination. We are embracing the attempt to flatten the bend.

Caregiver Support Groups and Retreats
(925) 682-6330
Our Caregiver Retreats are on a temporary concord; however we have social workers at our Pleasant Colina and Antioch locations that tin provide telephonic support. Our Caregiver Support Groups are likewise on a temporary hold, withal, nosotros are working with the Alzheimer'due south Clan to expect at telephonic and electronic ways to convene them. Every bit noted in a higher place, y'all tin call our Pleasant Loma or Antioch locations for social piece of work back up.

Diablo Valley Foundation for the Aging
(925) 945-8040

Diablo Valley Foundation for the Aging (DVFA) is working remotely and continuing to provide Fiduciary and Care Management services to clients and seniors in need while observing social distancing guidelines.  DVFA provides financial organisation and management resources/support, and Care Direction for seniors who practise not have immediate family or a close support organisation.

Lions Center for the Visually Impaired

 (800)750-EYES/3937        https://lcvi.org/

Our Mission is to preserve vision, foster independence and enhance the quality of life for adults who are blind or at run a risk for vision impairments and to serve as a trusted source of data and expertise on blindness in the community.

Lions Center for the Visually Dumb (lcvi.org)

Family unit Caregiver Brotherhood
(800) 445-8106

Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) is open up with all staff working remotely. We are delivering all services including caregiver assessments, counseling, respite authorization on a adventure assessed basis, other support and education past phone and video chat.

New caregivers seeking help: please dial extension 331. New caregivers can outset the intake process online by going to www.caregiver.org and clicking on CareJourney on the homepage.

FCA's regularly updated caregiver COVID-19 blog includes key resources relevant for caregiver.

Jewish Family unit and Community Services
(925) 927-2000

JFCS East Bay's offices are closed, just the agency is open up. During working hours, calls are existence forwarded to our office managers and will be answered. Providing services via telephone and video chat:

Free Activity Online Links

  • Virtual Activities offered by the Alzheimer's Foundation of America
    • https://www.facebook.com/AlzheimersFoundationof America/
    • https://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?v=pov91FvTYVo&characteristic-youtube
  • Craft Ideas
    • https://world wide web.seniorliving.org/life/activities/crafting/
  • Virtual Museum Exhibits, Symphonies, and Operas
    • https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cntraveler.com/story/all-the-museum-exhibits-symphonies-and-operas-you-tin-savour-from-home/amp
  • Lookout the Met Opera for Free         https://www.metopera.org/

COVID -19   OFFICIAL RESOURCE GUIDE – Web Links

CalOES (Office of Emergency Services) has posted new guidance documents for schools, event organizers, commencement responders, and other groups here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Guidance.aspx

Contra Costa Health Services – Public Health Division https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/

Contra Costa Health Services – For Providers: https://cchealth.org/coronavirus/#Providers

Contra Costa Wellness Services – Coronavirus Telephone call Center – (844) 729-8410

Caring for Seniors

Developed Day Care is a social weekday program which provides stimulating activities in a supervised and protective setting for dependent adults aged sixty and older. Meals and snacks are provided and individualized plans of care are developed for each participant.

  • Choice in Aging
  • Guardian Adult Day Health Intendance
  • Diablo Valley Foundation for the Aging

Long-Term Care Ombudsman services include complaint investigation and resolution services to residents residing in skilled nursing homes and residential care facilities.

  • Ombudsman Services of Contra Costa

Family Caregiver provider services are implemented by the AAA to addresses the specific needs of family members who provide care to an elderly relative. Through a network of agencies, family caregivers are provided with respite services, resource information, counseling, assistive living devices, and services to grandparents who are providing custodial care to a kid.

  • Family Caregiver Brotherhood
  • Jewish Family & Community Services – E Bay
  • Alzheimer's Association of Northern California

Volunteers provide home visiting services to the frail elderly, and those who are isolated and homebound. The goal of the program is to reduce the risk of inappropriate institutionalization and provide condolement and reassurance.

  • Meals on Wheels and Senior Outreach Services

Friendly Visitors volunteers are screened and matched to isolated, home-bound seniors in need of social contact.  Visitors may assist with letter of the alphabet-writing, limited personal shopping, library services and outings among other activities.  Volunteers are besides trained to conduct condom assessments and make referrals for various appropriate other services.

  • Meals on Wheels and Senior Outreach Services

Dwelling Intendance Registry provides referrals of seniors needing low toll chore services to dwelling care agencies with whom SOS has agreements. The Registry program also provides intendance-givers, from its ain list, for one-off emergency situations. SOS trains care-givers both for abode care agencies and among its own providers and in the community at large.

  • Meals on Wheels and Senior Outreach Services

Fall Prevention provides in-abode Occupational Therapist assessments and evaluations for seniors at hazard of falls and/or of being institutionalized due to inadequacies in the domicile.  The plan further provides assistive devices and home modifications to enable seniors to remain safely in their homes. Additionally, the Fall Prevention Program provides "Tai Chi for Ameliorate Residual" classes, county-wide, equally well equally in the homes of dwelling house-bound seniors, to improve seniors' balance and decrease instances of falls.

  • Meals on Wheels and Senior Outreach Services

SNAP-ED is a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan providing ongoing Tai Chi classes at two low-income senior centers and teaches nutrition classes at several county locations.

  • Meals on Wheels and Senior Outreach Services

In-Dwelling house Services Registry assists frail, elderly persons in Contra Costa County to reduce the risk of diminishing capacities to perform essential household and personal intendance tasks. Program staff recruit, screen and lucifer Registry providers with clients.

  • Meals on Wheels and Senior Outreach Services

Transportation Help

Volunteers provide assistance with transportation by running errands or transporting seniors to various appointments, shopping, or other needed trips, which would not exist possible without this service.

  • Mobility Matters

Repast Programs

Our Senior Diet Program serves an average of xvi,000 meals a calendar month at 21 unlike café sites throughout Contra Costa County. Transportation is provided to these centers for those who cannot bulldoze to a site on their own. A registered dietician presents nutritional pedagogy programs at each of the congregate meal sites. More than 2,000 homebound seniors over 60 receive dwelling delivered meals at least five days a week through the Senior Nutrition Program. On average, 19,000 meals are delivered each month to all areas of the county, from Richmond to Brentwood.

  • Health Services – Nutrition Program

Legal Services

Contra Costa Senior Legal Services offers free legal advice, information and representation to Contra Costa County seniors 60 years and older for ceremonious matters concerning preservation of housing, consumer finance, and protection from elderberry abuse (restraining orders). Farther information may be obtained from (925) 609-7900.

  • Senior Legal Services

Money Management

The Diablo Valley Foundation for the Aging provides beak paying and money management services for seniors, who for a diverseness of reason, may need aid every month paying their bills, depositing checks, recording all transaction and balancing accounts. These are provided by trained beak payers of Diablo Valley Foundation for the Aging.

  • Diablo Valley Foundation for the Aging

Other Helpful Links

From the National Resource Heart on Nutrition and Aging:
New Resources at the Administration on Community Living/Assistants on Aging Nutrition Services
(OAA Title IIIC Page)

The Nutrition Services page on the Administration on Community Living's website has been tremendously updated. If you haven't visited it recently, please do!

New Resource from the National Institute on Crumbling
Complimentary Web Content on Nutrition and Health

The National Constitute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health now offers a new, free tool. Apply it to get apparent, relevant health data for your website eliminating the need to write your own material or worry about updating it. The information—based on the latest scientific findings—will update automatically.
Topics available include: Alzheimer'due south disease, Practice for older people, Healthy eating after age 50, Falls, Diabetes, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Dietary supplements for older people, and more. Spanish and English versions are available.

  • Quick Start Guide

For boosted information on the Contra Costa County Area Bureau on Aging and/or the Informational Council on Aging, you lot may contact:

Anthony Macias at (925) 655-0776
400 Ellinwood Manner, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
[email protected]