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Elder Care Agencies and Resources

Rhode Island
(This list is not exhaustive and does not represent the endorsement of URI or the Work-Life Committee)

The Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center (RIGEC) at the University of Rhode Island
helps prepare health care and human service professionals, faculty, and students to better meet the physical, functional, and psychosocial needs of older adults. They do this through interdisciplinary education that spans workshops, clinical training, special lectures, academic courses, and faculty development programs.

Rhode Island Partnership for Home Care offers a membership listing of their home nursing care providers, home care providers, hospice providers and associate members.

The VNA of Care New England offers a wide variety of services, including nursing care, palliative care, hospice care, rehabilitative services, speech therapy, and special programs such as fall prevention, wound care, heart failure, and pulmonary rehab.

Rhode Island Office of Healthy Aging – Resources are available to the 55+ community regarding Health Insurance, Home Care, Food and Nutrition, Housing and Transportation support, and many areas where Elders find they need additional support.

The Point provides comprehensive information, referrals, and help getting started with programs and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers. This includes help choosing where to live, help with living at home, finding doctors and health services, health insurance counseling, legal issues, recreation, and many other topics.

The RI Department of Health & Human Services also offer information on Medicare and Medicaid Programs

The National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center has contact information for ombudsmen and services for aging adults for each state.

MetLife Legal Plans -This service covers counseling the Participant over the phone or in the office on any personal issues relating to the Participant’s parents as they affect the Participant. The service includes reviewing documents of the parents to advise the Participant of the effect on the Participant. The documents include Medicare or Medicaid materials, prescription plans, leases, nursing home agreements, powers of attorney, living wills and wills. The service also includes preparing deeds involving the parents when the Participant is either the grantor or grantee; and preparing promissory notes involving the parents when the Participant is the payor or payee.

National

The National Institute of Health provides Medline Plus – Assisted Living, which offers information and articles related to assisted living for adults who need help with everyday tasks.

The American Geriatric Society (AGS) has established the Foundation for Health in Aging, a national non-profit organization established in 1999 to build a bridge between the research and practice of geriatrics and the public, and to advocate on behalf of older adults and their special health care needs.

The Department of Health & Human Services offers information through their Administration on Aging

The Department of Health & Human Services also offer Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

Hospice and Palliative Care

National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization is committed to the belief that palliative care is a right of every patient. Palliative care is defined as “patient and family centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering.  Palliative care throughout the continuum of illness involves addressing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and facilitating patient autonomy, access to information, and choice”

The National Institute of Health provides Medline Plus – Hospice Care is end-of-life care provided by health professionals and volunteers. They give medical, psychological and spiritual support. The goal of the care is to help people who are dying have peace, comfort and dignity. The caregivers try to control pain and other symptoms so a person can remain as alert and comfortable as possible. Hospice programs also provide services to support a patient’s family.