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Our
History:
In many communities services
existed to support seniors and facilitate their living
independently. These were not personal care services; but
included such items as meals, transportation, shopping
escorts, home handyman, telephone reassurance, etc. These
services are vital to seniors’ maintaining themselves in
their communities. However, through lack of awareness,
difficulty of access, or duplication, insufficient or
inappropriate use of these resources often developed.
Sometimes important services were missing.
Recognizing the importance of
these services, Manitoba Health, through the Support
Services to Seniors program made available grants to aid
overview of needs in the community and identification of
resources both available and missing is thus assured.
Portage Service for Seniors was started up with these goals
in mind. Provincial Manitoba Health grants through
Interagency Committee Support Services to Seniors (IACSSS)
ensure access to a Community Resource Coordinators for the
Portage area. Other program organization costs come from
the community.
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Our Purpose:
Portage Service for Seniors
assist seniors in remaining independent in their own homes.
The agency’s goal is to offer seniors the best services
available while maintaining the client’s independence.
The challenge is to reduce
the percentage of elderly requiring total government
supported institutional care and prevent the trend to
congregate frail and at risk seniors in housing units,
having them remain in their present living environment. The
organization tries to increase the choices available to
seniors, with a range of cost options.
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Our
Philosophy:
- Recognizing that choice is inherent to independence,
fiscal policies respect individual preference and the
individual’s choice to participate.
- Support services are not care services, they are services
directed towards procurement and organization of goods and
services, social networks for life satisfaction and human
ego needs, secure environments, and transportation. The
successful management of these services is necessary for
existence and survival.
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