Avery County Senior Center
Senior Citizen Services
Why pick this one
Avery County Senior Center provides weekday home-delivered meals and daily transportation throughout Avery County for older adults accessing essential services.
Best for
- homebound older adults needing weekday meals
- older adults needing transportation to doctors, clinics, grocery stores, or pharmacies
- seniors seeking congregate lunches and center activities
- older adults needing in-home shopping, cooking, housekeeping, or bathing assistance
- family caregivers seeking respite care
- older adults or families needing Medicare, insurance, or aging-services referrals
Look elsewhere if
- a family specifically needs the Caregiver’s Haven memory-loss adult day program, which the website states is currently on hiatus
- a person needs emergency or 24-hour care
- a person needs services outside Avery County without confirming availability
Specialties
- congregate nutrition
- home-delivered meals
- senior transportation
- in-home aide and chore services
- respite care
- Medicare and insurance help
- memory-loss adult day programming
What makes them different
- Home-delivered hot meals are provided Monday through Friday through six volunteer delivery routes.
- Transportation is available daily throughout Avery County for senior center visits, medical appointments, grocery shopping, and pharmacy access.
- In-home aide Level 2 includes basic personal care such as bathing.
- Congregate lunch is served Monday through Friday at 11:30am by reservation.
- Services include Medicare and insurance help, respite care, and information and referral for older adults and families.
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 8060 N US-19E, Elk Park, NC 28622-9115
- Phone
- +18287338220
- Website
- http://www.averycountync.gov/departments/senior...
- philip.adams@averycountync.gov
Services
- nutrition services
- information and referral
- senior center activities
- transportation
- in-home assistance
- respite care
- caregiver support
- volunteer placement