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Services
Caregiver Advocates can help caregivers identify community
resources, select the best options and assist in securing
needed services. They will:
- Direct you to the appropriate agency or
contact the agency on your behalf
- Arrange home visits if you have intensive
needs
- Follow up to make sure that you have
received the help you need
- Provide limited supplemental services for
caregivers in financial need
Senior Services Caregiver Outreach and Support
Program is also available to do community outreach, education and
coordination with service providers. Advocates are happy to schedule
workplace or community presentations on:
- Caregiver Resources
- Long Distance Caregiving
- Paying for Care
- Legal Issues for Caregivers
- Other Caregiving Concerns
The Kinship Care program helps kinship caregivers understand and navigate the services available
for children living with relatives other than their own parents. Our goal is to strengthen families
and to enhance the ability of relatives to provide a safe, stable and nurturing environment
for the children in their care.
Eligibility
Services are available to:
- Anyone caring for a person 60 or older
- Any person 60 or older who is caring for a
child under the age of 19.
The services are available at no cost to the
public although donations are gladly accepted. However, many of the
community resources we link people with do have specific age, income,
asset or other eligibility criteria. Some are available at no cost; others
have set fees or charge according to a person’s ability to pay. Contact a
Caregiver Advocate for current information on program eligibility and or
cost.
Community Resources
Senior Information and Assistance maintains a database of community based
resources ranging from adult day care to legal services and transportation
resources. Log on and search for resources available to caregivers and
older persons in the Seattle and King County areas.
Consumer Information
Advocates have current information on over 7,000 community services.
Senior Information and Assistance maintains a wide variety of
consumer directories and resource lists. Each directory is designed
for clarity and readability, and includes detailed resource
information for seniors and their caregivers in the Seattle/King
County area. Click on the Directories link to download and/or
request documents.
Caregiver
Journals
Another available source of support is our Online Journals where you can
read daily accounts of the trials and tribulations as well as the successes
and satisfaction of other caregivers. If you'd like to hear some of our
experiences, family stories, share in things we've tried that worked
and sympathize with the things that didn't work, feel free to share
in our stories.
Consider keeping a journal where you record all your feelings, hopes,
dreams and disappointments. It is a good way to reduce stress and can
be a cathartic tool, increasing creativity, enhancing your immune system,
deepening your spiritual life, helping to generating insights. The letter
that was never sent, the things better left unsaid, by setting them down
in writing you can have a safe way of dealing with ideas and emotions
that you may be afraid to express in any other manner. Journal writing
can help with your immediate worries, and later, revisiting your
writing can provide a window into how you once felt and how far
you have come. There is no "right" or "wrong" way to do it !
Avail yourself of this powerful method for taking charge of
your life. Use it to discover who you are and who you want to be.
Email us to register for your own journal.
Caregiver Message Boards
Please feel free to visit the message boards
and interact in real time with people that are going through the same
things that you are. Through Caregiver Connection we hope to give you an
avenue to a wonderful source of support, a private space where you can
receive and provide support, encouragement, comfort, a reality check,
knowledge, and compassion. Create a support group or build a network of
friends. Participate in a venue where people meet for communicating their
needs, wants, desires, experiences and feelings using their voice through
letters, stories, poetry, quotations, email, etc. Help yourself as well as
others navigate through the trenches of being caregiver.
Caregiving in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Families
Personal stories of caregiving shared by Lesbian, Gay and Transgender caregivers. Their stories of caring for parents, partners, friends and siblings highlight both the universal experiences of caregiving and the unique challenges faced by caregivers in the LGBT community. This 30 minute video was created for the NW LGBT Elder Conference held in June 2007.
http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=4146
Selected Caregiver Links
Click on the following links to view some of the non-profit and government
sponsored Internet sites that provide helpful information for
caregivers.
Family Caregiver Alliance
www.caregiver.org
Washington State Department of Social & Health Services
www.adsa.dshs.wa.gov/caregiving/
American Association of Retired Persons
www.aarp.org
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Care Planner
www2.careplanner.org
Administration on Aging Caregiver Resources
www.aoa.gov/prof/aoaprog/caregiver/caregiver.asp
Eldercare Locator
www.eldercare.gov
Northwest Justice Project
www.nwjustice.org
National Alliance for Caregiving
www.caregiving.org
National Family Caregiver Association
www.nfcacares.org
Elder Web
www.elderweb.com/
Alzheimer’s Association
www.alzwa.org
Lifespan Respite Resource Guide
www.arcofkingcounty.org/respite/
Caregiving.com
www.caregiving.com/
Children of Aging Parents
www.caps4caregivers.org
Eldercare Online
www.caps4caregivers.org
Contact Us
Caregiver Outreach and Support Program
2208 2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
8am - 6pm
Monday - Friday
Gregory Townsend, Program Manager
Telephone: (206)
448-3110
Toll-free: 1-888-435-3377
TTY: (206) 448-5025
Fax
(206) 448-5748
E-Mail: info@seniorservices.org
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