Organizations that are involved in the business of preparing, storing, compounding and dispensing drugs in accordance with prescriptions prepared by licensed physicians. Pharmacies also counsel patients on proper use of their medication and verify that new treatments are compatible with other medicines they may be taking.

Senior Centers provide nutrition and transportation services, as well as a place for socialization, recreation, education and heath-related activities. The Center Directors and Case Managers are available to provide information and assistance on various issues that affect the elderly. They can help with forms or applications for benefit programs, help arrange services and make referrals to other agencies who offer programs for the elderly. The Case Managers assigned to each center are available to assist the frail, homebound elderly to get needed services.
Serves: Burke, Chateaugay, Belmont, Brainardsville, Special Lake Districts

Organizations that are involved in the business of preparing, storing, compounding and dispensing drugs in accordance with prescriptions prepared by licensed physicians. Pharmacies also counsel patients on proper use of their medication and verify that new treatments are compatible with other medicines they may be taking.

A telephone support program for parents of children with disabilities & or chronically ill children having special needs. Free, individual & confidential support, reassurance & information provided by trained volunteer parents of children with like handicapping conditions. Over 200 disabilities covered. Parent to Parent also does information and referral.

EISEP provides non-medical services to those 60 and over and need help with Activities of Daily Living, e.g., dressing, bathing, personal care and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, e.g., shopping, cooking and cleaning.

The EISEP program provides:

•Case management

•Personal Care and Homemaker/Chore Services

•Ancillary Services: Installation of Grab Bars, Home Inspections, Heavy Cleaning

A case manager determines needed services through an assessment, develops a care plan, coordinates, adjusts, and monitors the services provided. The provision of ancillary services is determined by the case manager and is services or durable equipment which is intended to provide an individual with the ability to remain safely in the community.

There may be a fee for this program based on a person's household income. The fee and eligibility will be determined by an EISEP Case Manager. For further information contact the Ontario County Office for the Aging at (585) 396-4040.

Local Home HEalth Care Agency

Programs that offer the services of paraprofessional aides who provide personal health care services which do not require special technical training, in the homes of recently discharged hospital patients, elderly individuals and people with disabilities. Services are provided in accordance with a written home health care plan and may include feeding, bathing and grooming patients; changing their beds; taking their temperature, pulse or respiration; helping them to the toilet or to use a bedpan; and other types of assistance that enhance their physical and emotional comfort. The home health aide may also perform other activities as taught by a health professional for a specific patient including changing a colostomy bag; assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living; assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises; assisting with prescribed ice cap or collar; doing simple urine tests for sugar, acetone or albumin; measuring and preparing special diets; measuring fluid intake and output; and supervising the self-administration of medications (reminding the individual to take the medication, opening bottle caps, reading the medication label to the individual, observing the individual taking medications, checking the self-administered dosage against the label of the container and reassuring the individual that they have obtained and are taking the correct dosage).

Serves: Brushton Village, Towns of Bangor, Moira and Brandon

Programs that offer skilled nursing care under the guidance and supervision of a physician in the homes of recently discharged hospital patients and other people who need continuous nursing care but are not in an acute phase of their illness.

Organizations that are involved in the business of preparing, storing, compounding and dispensing drugs in accordance with prescriptions prepared by licensed physicians. Pharmacies also counsel patients on proper use of their medication and verify that new treatments are compatible with other medicines they may be taking.