Senior Citizen's Resource Guide
Table of Contents
- Health Care
- Consumer information & license verification service
- Disease prevention & health protection services
- Health care proxy
- Hospital patients' rights
- Complaints about hospitals and diagnostic and treatment centers
- Patients' rights for Medicare & Medicaid participants
- Long Term Care Ombudsman Program (LTCOP)
- Health Insurance
- Balanced billing
- Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC)
- Health Insurance Information, Counseling & Assistance Program (HIICAP)
- Long Term Care Insurance Education & Outreach Program
- New York State Partnership for Long Term Care
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Medicare Buy-In Programs
- Reporting Medicare or Medicaid fraud
- Medicare preventive health screening test and benefits
- Nutrition
- Congregate Meals
- Home Delivered Meals
- Food Stamps
- Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program
- Determine Your Nutritional Health
- Fitness & Wellness
- HIV & AIDS
- Alcohol and substance abuse
- Exercise clubs
- Legal Assistance
- Age Discrimination
- Consumer Issues
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship
- Mediating disputes to avoid court
- Medicaid Eligibility
- Powers of Attorney
- Prison Families of New York
- Professional Misconduct & Unlicensed Practice
- Financial Assistance
- Taxes
- Real Property Tax Credit
- Local Real Property Tax Exemption
- School Tax Relief (STAR)
- Local Support Services
- NY Connects: Choices for Long Term Care
- Alzheimer's Disease or other dementias
- Caring for minor children
- Elder Caregiver Support Program
- Eldercare Locator
- Expanded In-home Services for the Elderly Program (EISEP)
- Home Care Services
- Hospice Services
- Long-distance caregiving
- Respite services
- Senior centers
- Social adult day services
- Supportive Services
- Telephone Reassurance & Friendly Visiting
- Housing
- Active-Adult Community
- Accessory Apartments
- Adult Home (New York State licensed)
- Assisted Living Program
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities
- Dementia Care Facility or Wing/Unit
- Enriched Housing
- Enriched Housing Program or Adult Home with Limited Licensed Home Care Agency
- Intergenerational Housing
- Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs)
- Senior Housing (with no services)
- Shared Living Residences
- Supportive Senior Housing
- Single Room Occupancy (SRO)
- Subsidized Housing
- Private Pay (Market Rate) Housing
- Energy
- Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)
- Utility Rights
- Weatherization Referral and Packaging Program (WRAP)
- Other assistance with utility emergencies
- Public Service Commission
- Energy Conservation
- Transportation
- Transportation to appointments
- Transportation discounts
- Older Driver Family Assistance Project
- Personal Identification Card
- Disasters & Emergencies
- Employment
- Older American Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)
- Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
- Crime
- Crime prevention
- Crime victims' protection
- Elder abuse prevention
- Services for Older Immigrants & Refugees
- SSI Eligibility Concerns
- Recreation
- Federal Golden Age Passport
- Federal Golden Access Passport
- New York State Parks' Golden Park Program
- New York State Sporting License
- Exercise Clubs
- Empire State Senior Games
- Volunteering
- Long Term Care Ombudsman Program (LTCOP)
- Foster Grandparent Program
- Health Insurance Information, Counseling & Assistance Program (HIICAP)
- Senior Companion Program
- Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
- Veterans Information & Benefits
- Blind Annuity
- Burial
- Disability Compensation & Pension
- Health Care
- New York State Sporting License
- Property Tax Exemption
- High School Diplomas for World War II Veterans
- Don't Hesitate to Call
- Your Local Veterans' Office
- United States Government
- New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
- New York State Government
- Your Local Social Services Districts
- Your County Health Department
- Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Centers & Programs
- Toll-free helplines & other important numbers
- Your County Mental Health Department