St. Luke's Eldercare Solutions Of Central Connecticut

"Supporting Successful Aging and Independent Living"
The agency’s mission is to be a leader in the continued development of housing and outreach services for seniors that provide support for physical, emotional and spiritual needs.

Description:
St. Luke’s has been providing needed community services to seniors and promoting elderly independence since being founded in 1865 as a home for civil war widows. In 1982 St. Luke’s initiated a program to provide outreach support services to the homebound elderly living independently in the community. In 2003, through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, St. Luke’s developed a volunteer service model based on communities working together to provide valuable needed support services to low income elderly.

Today our outreach services are available to seniors living in Middletown, Cromwell, Portland, East Hampton, East Haddam, Haddam, Durham, and Middlefield. There are nearly 17,000 individuals over the age of 60 in our 8 town service area. Of those 1000 are minorities and more than 1750 are near poor or 150% of poverty level. Our outreach services and education program reach more than 500 seniors annually. We have a trained volunteer force of more than 180 who provide assistance to more than 150 homebound elderly. Services include providing outreach services, grocery shopping, and transportation to out of area medical appointments, education, case management, minor home repair, chaplaincy, and friendly visitors. In addition, we have 25 HUD, independent living apartments on Broad Street, Middletown.

The agency also provides case management, daily financial management, social programs, chaplaincy services, resource information to individuals/caregivers and provides education/advocacy on elder care issues.

History:
Please see the above decription of our agency which includes the history of St. Luke's.

Contact person: Diane Cummings, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (860) 347-9187

Address:

100 Riverview Center Suite 202 Middletown, CT 06457 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.stlukeshome.org

Last updated on January 8, 2009