Elder Services: Senior Support Services (SSS) and Elder Community Care (ECC)A team of experienced clinicians with special expertise in serving older adults
Elder Services strives to meet the mental health and substance abuse needs of older adults. We partner and engage with older adults, their caregivers and their support networks to enhance dignity and support independence through a strong collaboration of mental health experts and community resources.
Service area includes but is not limited to fourteen MetroWest communities: Ashland, Dover, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Marlborough, Natick, Northborough, Sherborn, Southborough, Sudbury, Wayland, and Westborough.
Referrals can be made by elders, their families, community providers, hospitals or councils on aging. We work in close partnership with BayPath Elder Services.
Languages spoken: English, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese
Services we provide:
Information & referral
Assessment & evaluation
Individual and family counseling
Care coordination
Crisis intervention
Psychopharmacology
24 hour crisis services: Psychiatric Emergency Services (508) 872-3333
Samaritans (877) 870-4673
Concerns we address:
Bereavement
Depression
Anxiety
Substance abuse
Isolation
Adjustment to change and loss
Other age-related concerns
Outcomes:
New coping or problem solving skills
Improved psychiatric/emotional symptoms
Decreased social isolation
Support while coping with major life changes
Senior Support Services (SSS)Senior Support Services has been serving older adults for 6 years. We offer both clinic-based and home-based services.
SSS provides:
Short-term and long-term intervention/therapy
Clinic-based or home-based services
Insurance or private pay services; Medicare, Mass Health, and most private insurance accepted
For intake or more information:
Jennifer Miller, LMHC, Program Coordinator
508.661.2153
Elder Community Care (ECC) ECC is a federally-funded (SAMHSA) grant program and is a collaboration of Advocates, BayPath Elder Services and Samaritans. Visit www.eldercommunitycare.org.
ECC provides:
Outreach
Brief mental health services
TeleConnect - a telephone befriending service
TeleHelp - a medical alert system for emotional crises
In-home medication consultation
For intake or more information:
Heather Lacasse, MSW, Intake Coordinator
508.573.7250
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Advocates provides support services for people with:
- Mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse
- Intellectual or developmental disabilities or co-occurring mental illness and developmental disability
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Autism and pervasive developmental disabilities
- Acquired or traumatic brain injury
We also provide support services for:
- Deaf adults with mental illness or a developmental disability
- Families who are supporting a family member with a disability
- Elders living in the community who may have a mental illness or substance abuse disorder
- Adults with a mental health diagnosis in jail or re-entering the community
- Youth in transition from foster care
- Individuals and families who are homeless or at risk for homelessness
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