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MEOC includes nine community group respite centers,
an in-home respite program, adult day health care, care coordination and nine
caregiver support groups (including two Alzheimer’s groups, an on-line
Alzheimer’s support group and four relative caregiver groups.) A Family Caregiver Resource Center, an annual Alzheimer’s
Seminar, caregiver education programs, a quarterly newspaper, pharmacy
assistance, personal care, homemaker services, transportation and home safety
program are additional services available to assist caregivers.
The KinCare Program (relative caregivers) provides assistance annually
with back to school supplies, monthly family social activities, case management
and Christmas for Kids.
Since 1982, the agency has placed a major
emphasis on services that support and encourage family caregivers.
Since the inception of the program, thousands of family caregivers have
received assistance and an average of two hundred caregivers receive assistance
through the program monthly. The
following is a listing of caregiver services provided during MEOC’s 2004- 2005
fiscal year.
MEOC
is committed in providing support to families providing around the clock care to
elderly family members. In addition to in home respite and group respite
services, MEOC operates Caregiver Support Groups to provide emotional,
educational and social support to families caring for their elders.
The
Support Group meeting schedule is as follows:
CAREGIVER
SUPPORT GROUPS MEET:
S
S
Second
Friday of each month at 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. at Community Fellowship
Baptist Church. (This group is sponsored jointly with the Parish Nurse
Program of Wellmont-Holston Valley Hospital.)
2.
Fourth Thursday every
other month (Feb-Apr-June-Aug-Oct-Dec) at 6:00 p.m. at Lee
Regional Medical Center in Pennington Gap.
ALZHEIMER’S
SUPPORT GROUPS MEET:
.
Second Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. at Mountain Empire Older
Citizens in Big Stone Gap.
Mountain
Empire Older Citizens also offers support groups for
KinCare
families (Provides supportive services for grandparents who are raising their
grandchildren and other relatives raising children).
For more information contact MEOC at 1-800-252-6362 or 1-276-523-4202.
Fees:
No fees. Contributions accepted.
Eligibility:
Any family member concerned with taking care of another family member.
Intake
Procedure:
Contact MEOC by telephone, mail or in person.
Service
Area:
Lee, Scott and Wise Counties, and The City of Norton
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