Senior Centers

 

Senior Centers provides a broad range of group/individual activities and services to respond to the needs, interests of older adults and their families in its community.  Senior Centers serve as a “focal point” for all the programs available to older adults within a county. 

Services include:

  1. Congregate Meals – A nutritious noonday hot meal that meets a minimum of one-third of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA).
  2. Home Delivered Meals – A meal delivered to a client’s home one hot or other appropriate meal that meets one-third of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA).
  3. Homemaker – Help for essential shopping, laundry, errands, and meal preparation.
  4. Information and Assistance – Providing current information to a client or individual about available resources and linking them to appropriate community based services to meet their needs.
  5. Outreach /Client Finding – To identify clients in needs of Senior Center services and encourage the use of existing services and benefits.
  6. Transportation – Provide transportation from a person’s home to the doctor, drug store, Senior Center, shopping, etc.
  7. Escort – Provide transportation accompanying and personally assisting a client to obtain a service.
  8. Informational Sessions – Other agencies are invited to make presentations of interest to older adults i.e., Legal Assistance, Health Promotion, Nutrition Education, Ombudsman, and Benefits Counseling.
  9. Social Events – Activities to encourage socialization, Bingo, Table Games, Recreation, Arts, Crafts, Pot Luck Dinners, etc.

 

 

 

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

         Cumberland Valley Area Development District

                                                      Serving Bell, Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Rockcastle, and Whitley Counties in Kentucky

Council of ADD's

Council of ADD's

Senior Center Locations:

 

Bell County Senior Citizens-Middlesboro        Bell County Senior Citizens - Pineville

P.O. Box 64                                                211 Tennessee Avenue

Middlesboro, KY 40965                                Pineville, KY 40977

(606)248-2990                                           (606)337-7478

 

Clay County Old Timers                               Corbin Senior Citizens

144 Old Timers Road                                   P.O. Box 1087

Manchester, KY 40962                                 Corbin, KY 40702

(606)598-5754                                           (606)528-0100

 

Harlan County Committee on Aging-Harlan    Harlan County Committee on Aging-Bledsoe

P.O. Box 1246                                            39 West Highway 221

Harlan, KY 40831                                        Bledsoe, KY 40810

(606)573-3496                                           (606)558-3839

 

Henderson Settlement-Frakes                      Jackson County Committee on Aging

P.O. Box 205                                              P.O. Box 126

Frakes, KY 40940                                        McKee, KY 40447

(606)337-7920                                           (606)287-3659

 

Knox County HELP                                       Laurel County OPAC

P.O. Box 1198                                            426 1/2 East Fourth Street

Barbourville, KY 40906                                 London, KY 40741

(606)546-5191                                           (606)878-6261

 

Red Bird Mission                                         Rockcastle County Senior Citizens

70 Queendale Center                                  P.O. Box 691

Beverly, KY 40913                                       Mt. Vernon, KY 40456

(606)598-3155                                           (606)256-4316

 

Senior Citizens of Whitley County

208 South Second Street

Williamsburg, KY 40769

 

 

 

2008 CEDS