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Contact Sheboygan Office
on Aging for these programs
1-920-459-3095
Congregate Nutrition Program:
The Congregate Nutrition Program is administered at 10 locations throughout the County serving from 1 to 5 days a week. The Food and Fellowship Program includes socialization, exercise, wellness education and information Site managers do outreach and provide community support to the elderly in their areas.
Community Supportive Care:
Program to provide the elderly with information and assistance in any area of concern to them. It includes site managers who visit the elderly and arrange for needed services and follow-along. Some of these services include:
1. Information and Referral: Provision of information and referral services to elderly, their family or friends on questions or problems they may have and linkage to needed resources.
2. Benefit Specialist Services: Provides legal and benefit advocacy for the elderly. Includes assistance with all government programs. Medicare and Social Security appeals, insurance counseling and with medical bills.
3. Handy-Helpers Chore Service: Provides names of persons willing to do chore types of service for the elderly, i.e., lawn work, show shoveling, home maintenance, housekeeping, and companion services.
4. Peer Counseling: Trained volunteer peer counselors to provide one-on-one assistance to persons who need consistent, ongoing assistance.
5. Friendly Visitors: Volunteers to visit homebound persons on a regular basis.
6. Telephone Reassurance: Volunteers to phone the elderly on a daily basis to insure their safety and provide limited socialization; includes follow-up procedures if the person fails to answer the phone.
7. Identification Cards: Picture identification cards issued to persons 60 and over to participate in senior citizen discounts and provide additional identification.
8. Recreation: Limited funding for coordination and supplies for recreational programs for older persons. The program includes: a bowling league, dartball league, beanbag league between nutrition sites, bus trips and activities at the nutrition sites.
Home Delivered Program:
Home delivered meals are handled by different sources depending upon location. The majority of the home delivered meals are contracted with Meals on Wheels. The areas covered are the cities of Sheboygan, Sheboygan Falls, Kohler, Plymouth and Village of Elkhart Lake. They provide frozen meals delivered by a Division on Aging volunteer for those areas not covered by Division on Aging routes. Division on Aging has delivery routes out of Adell, Oostburg and Plymouth Food and Fellowship sites
Homespun Post:
A craft outlet for senior citizens in order that they may sell their crafts to provide income to continue their crafts and augment their income.
Publications:
Division on Aging complies and updates information of interest to the elderly. Contact Sheboygan Office on Aging 1-920-459-3095
Elderly Service Directory:
A listing of services available to the elderly and how to contact them.
CBRF (Community Based Residence Facilities) Directory: AKA Assisted Living Facilities
Cobblestone Terrace 453-5965
Countryside Manor 254-0952
Encore Senior Village 452-7171
Harbor Heights 451-6923
Harmony House 457-4000
Hometown Retirement 564-3330
Morningside Terrace 457-6399
Pinehaven Christian Home 467-2401
Sheboygan Senior Community 458-2137
TLC Homes 457-0816
Woodland Manor 254-0952
Eligibility Requirements Nutrition:
Program and direct services person or spouse must be 60 years of age. Information and referral any age
National Family Caregiver Support Program
Provides information, assistance to caregivers in obtaining services, counseling and funding for short term respite services
Nursing Home Directory:
Beverly Healthcare (Greendale) 458-1155
Meadow View Manor 458-4040
Morningside Health Center 457-5046
Pinehaven Christian Home 467-2401
Rocky Knoll Health Care Center 467-6464
Sheboygan Progressive Care Center 458-8333
Sheboygan Senior Community 458-2137
Sunny Ridge Health Care 459-3028
Valley Manor Nursing Home 893-4777
State Senior Community Services Grant:
Program to provide volunteer opportunities to older persons. Older volunteers provide in and out of county medical transportation that cannot be handled by the transportation program, assist the office with clerical and receptionist services, peer counseling, homebound visitors, telephone assurance, assistance at nutrition sites and home delivered meals. The volunteers' meals and mileage can be reimbursed.
State Alzheimer's Family & Caregivers Support Grant:
Program to be of assistance to persons caring for Alzheimer's victims, funds respite care, adult day care and support group.
Widow/Widower Booklet:
Information and a checklist of items to be done after the death of a spouse; site managers contact all recent elderly widows/widowers to let them know assistance is available if they desire it.
Wisconsin Parkinson's Association:
Provides reimbursement for coordination and expenses for the Parkinson's Support Group sponsored by the Office on Aging.
Wisconsin Victim Assistance, Compensation & State Programs
OVC Victim Assistance for Wisconsin Phone:
608-267-2251
OVC
Victim Assistance, Compensation & State
Program