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After nearly two years of taking precautionary measures to stay safe and healthy during COVID-19, older adults who are reengaging with one another, their families, friends, and communities may need advice on where to turn for assistance with a range of changes they may have experienced during the pandemic.
Those could include physical changes brought on by putting off doctors’ appointments, emotional or social changes resulting from physical distancing and isolation, or financial changes due to cognitive changes or scams.
The Eldercare Locator, USAging, and the U.S. Administration for Community Living have created Healthy Aging in a Pandemic World: What Older Adults and Caregivers Need to Know Now, a brochure describing some of the changes that families, friends, and caregivers may notice in the older adults in their lives.
The brochure poses questions readers can and should ask themselves and their loved ones and provides information on services available that can address changes they may have identified.
It is available online at usaging.org/Files/HFTH-brochure-Eng-508.pdf or by calling USAging’s Eldercare Locator at (800) 677-1116.
“By providing connections to services that help older adults age well at home, the Eldercare Locator’s national call center is a starting point for those who are looking to emerge from the pandemic but are unsure of where to start safely,” USAging CEO Sandy Markwood said.
Launched in 1992, the Eldercare Locator is the only national information and referral resource to provide support to consumers across the spectrum of issues affecting older Americans. It can be accessed at eldercare.acl.gov or (800) 677-1116.
“The Eldercare Locator is a vital national resource for older adults, families, and caregivers looking for local resources to help them live actively and independently and to get and stay connected with others,” Alison Barkoff, principal deputy administrator, U.S. Administration for Community Living, said.