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Senior services top up: grants, waitlist hits cap, QR medical bracelets and mural restoration plans
Summary
Office for the Aging staff reported a $10,000 grant, rising demand for senior meals (waitlist reached 250), piloted medical QR bracelets for emergency contact notification, and began coordinating a response to graffiti on a Philmont kitchen mural.
Office for the Aging staff told the Health and Human Services Committee on Aug. 19 that senior services have both growing demand and new small-scale investments. Staff reported the county is distributing Farmers Market coupons and had 504 coupons remaining as of Aug. 15. At a July senior resource fair staff said they received a $10,000 grant from the Bank of Greene County Trailers Foundation to support senior home-repair funds, plus a $500 donation to a “senior stars” program. “We are starting the Medicare 101 seminars … tomorrow,”…
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