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Sullivan County Office for the Aging reports volunteer hours, in‑home services and transit route updates
Summary
The county Office for the Aging summarized program activity including RSVP volunteer hours, expanded in‑home services for elderly (ISEP), and transit route updates tied to a federal 5311 application that was submitted to support Move Sullivan routes.
The Sullivan County Office for the Aging reported program updates including volunteer contributions, in‑home services statistics and recent transportation route changes.
Laura (Office for the Aging) told the committee that RSVP volunteers provided 1,075 hours in December, which the office estimated as $40,000.86 in service value for that month. She said the expanded In‑Home Services for the Elderly Program (ISEP) served 402 individuals in 2024; aides provided 10,483 hours of personal care at a cost of $335,464. "If the same 42 individuals were to go to a nursing home ... it would cost just over $6,000,000 for the year," she said, noting the program helps seniors remain at home.
On transportation, Laura said the county submitted the federal 5311 application for rural transit funding to support Move Sullivan and one of the county's shopping buses. Two new one‑hour loops in Liberty and Monticello soft‑launched Jan. 21; route updates to existing routes A–D provided 29,898 paratransit rides and 3,310 other rides for a total of 33,208 rides in 2024, according to the report. Route E — serving Livingston Manor and Roscoe — is expected to begin once a vehicle is released by the Department of Transportation.
The office also noted the county submitted an RFP to update the comprehensive transportation plan and that staff plan a larger press conference once new routes and schedules are finalized. The Office for the Aging said nomination forms for the 2025 Older New Yorker program are due Feb. 28 and encouraged commissioners to submit names of local residents aged 60 and older.
Provenance: Remarks and program figures were presented during the aging/transportation report segment.
