Senior Services

The Wayne County Senior Citizens' Services manages several programs [listed below], employs 25 persons and serves more than 1,000 seniors a day through its efforts. Each program has different age limits, but generally the minimum age served is 60 and up.

Adult Day Care: Staffers at Westland's Wayne County Senior Citizens' Services Adult Day Care Center provide needed services to frail and/or impaired elderly persons living in Western Wayne County and the Downriver communities so that the elderly persons' caregivers can enjoy a respite from responsibilities.

Eloise Cemetery Restoration Project: Continuing its efforts to reclaim the burial site of 7,145 Eloise patients and residents.

Eloise Historical Collection: A museum highlighting the great contributions the Eloise Complex made to the health and welfare of residents of Wayne County is maintained by the Wayne County Senior Citizens' Services in the Kay Beard Building.

Friendly Reassurance Program: The Program provides a telephone contact five days a week, Monday through Friday, to homebound persons residing in the following communities: Belleville, Canton, Huron Township, Garden City, Inkster, Plymouth, Plymouth Township, Romulus, Sumpter Township, Van Buren Township, and Westland. Program has an emergency response plan in the event a participant does not answer. There is no fee for this service, however, donations are accepted. This program is funded through a grant from The Senior Alliance and contributions.

Greenhouse and Garden Program: The program provides 150 gardening plots and year-round use of a greenhouse. Plowing, seeds, bedding plants and irrigation are provided.

Information and Referral: The resource files of the Wayne County Senior Citizens' Services provide current information on services available to Wayne County senior residents.Telephone referrals are also made to agencies which can assist with immediate needs.

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Nutrition Services: Thousands of Wayne County senior citizens get a hot meal - often their only one of the day - from this office. Every weekday, 3,000 homebound seniors and 1,800 others who gather at one of the 41 designated nutrition sites receive a nutritionally balanced meal.

Prescription Drug Program: Free prescription drugs are made available to eligible senior citizens through World Medical Relief. More than $250,000 in free pharmaceuticals were dispensed to seniors in the past year.

The National Caucus and Center on Black Aged [NCBA]: Provides work sites [generally for community service functions] for qualified senior citizens.

Senior Citizen Multipurpose Center: The center in Westland provides an array of social, recreational and educational activities.

Seniors Prescription Savings Program is Wayne County's new senior citizen prescription drug program. The program provides 5-50% savings on prescription drugs purchased in a wide network of pharmacies in the Pharmaceutical Care Network [PCN] in Wayne County and throughout the United States. The program is open to County residents who are 60 years old, with no co-pay program for prescriptions.

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