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Senior Centers: a gathering place where older adults can enjoy social, physical and recreational activities as well as a hot noon meal. Health screening services are often available also.
Skilled Nursing: Skilled Nursing services provides actual medical care in a person's home. Examples include medication assistance, wound care, IV therapy, etc.
Social Security Retirement Benefits: Cash income payments provided to people who are elderly, have a disability, or are a Survivor.
Subsidized Rental Housing: Rental housing (apartments, houses, etc.) where the rent is reduced based on client's income. (i.e. Section 8 housing, low-income senior apartments, HUD housing.) Also includes housing authority offices where applications for subsidized housing are processed.
Substance Abuse Treatment: Counseling provided for older persons who need help due to the misuse of medications, alcohol, certain drugs, and other toxins. (Substance abuse treatment may be offered in an in-patient or out-patient setting.)
Supplemental Insurance: Insurance policies which provide coverage for services not covered by Medicare. Also, organizations that provide assistance understanding policies, medigap insurance, etc.
Supplemental Security Income: Cash income for people who are elderly, have a disability, are a refugee, or are blind.
Support Groups: Meetings for supportive purposes for specialized conditions or situations to enhance the health, happiness or comfort of those people with said condition or situation or the families or friends of those individuals.
