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Project
Care Volunteer Services provides:
Frequent friendly Home Visits to the elderly
by dedicated, sensitive and personable volunteers and staff 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:
• Through 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 delivered
at home
• Food Pantries • Meals-on-Wheels
• MEDIC Alert Pendants (worn at home)
• Project Metropair
-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 if eligible)
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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, if eligible, 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; limited Rental Assistance (services
based on qualifications and requirements)
You can make a
difference! To Volunteer for Project Care please call the Volunteer
Coordinator at 718-377-2900 Ext.7633 |
