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Making decisions about long term care can be overwhelming for you and your loved ones.
Through the Choices for Care Program, a trained professional can provide a helping hand at
no cost to you. Casemanagers in your community will provide a free consultation that
includes an assessment of your needs, a review of service options and costs, and
assistance in developing your plan for care.
The Choices for Care program gives you the opportunity to choose services that are
provided by a homemaker or personal assistant, or other services such as home delivered
meals, electronic home response, adult day care and care provided in a nursing facility.
The casemanager can help you determine which services are appropriate, available and
affordable to you.
The purpose of this program is to provide you and your family members with choices for
long term care services, provide early counseling about available services and to provide
you with information about eligibility criteria and costs for home and community based
services, as well as general information on nursing facility care.
Anyone age 18 or over who is seeking long term care services will be participating in this
program although PLOWS Council on Aging provides this service for persons age 60 and
older.
An experienced casemanager will talk with you and your family. These professionals have
been trained by the Illinois Department of Aging and the state's rehabilitation services
experts. They have experience arranging services to help people remain in their homes and
also have general information on nursing home care. A casemanager will ask you questions
about your ability to perform certain tasks. This information will help the casemanager
identify your needs. You can then choose appropriate and affordable services for yourself.
You may still choose to go to a nursing facility if that is the service you choose. The
consultation is designed to give you more information about your choices, but the final
decision about the services you will receive is yours to make.
Contact Information
PLOWS Council on Aging is available Monday thru Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Telephone
- 708-422-6722
- FAX
- 708-422-8475
- Postal address
- 4700 West 95th Street, Suite 106, Oak Lawn, Illinois 60453
- Electronic mail
- General Information: xplowsx@ameritech.net
Webmaster: xplowsx@ameritech.net
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PLOWS Council on Aging
