Family Lifeline

Long-term support services (living well) family lifelines living well programming provides intensive, home-based care to support older adults, people with disabilities, and family caregivers living in the metro richmond area. We strive to help individuals remain living well in community settings of their choosing where they feel safe, connected, healthy, and engaged. Our long-term support services are person-centered, trauma informed, and individualized to each clients needs. Service options include: home care, nurse consultation/ health supervision, visiting volunteers, or any combination of these. At each connection point, family lifeline offers honoring choices (a major initiative to build systemic change, advocacy, and education around advanced care planning) and counseling. We also participate in no wrong door (a virtual system and statewide network of shared resources designed to streamline access to long term services and supports connecting individuals, providers, and communities across virginia) as a means to connect our families with the services they need. Research shows that social isolation, frailty and chronic health conditions increase sharply with age. As the population ages, more and more individuals will find it difficult to carry out the everyday tasks necessary to age-in-place and remain safely at home. Our goal is to support individuals and families to remain socially engaged while maintaining their health, safety, and dignity. Goals of our living well programs are: promoting health and wellness in the comfort and safety of home preventing premature placement in long-term care facilities facilitating social connectedness and community engagement relieving the stress and role-strain associated with caregiving improving life course outcomes -- two generations at a time in fiscal year 2023-2024, our living well programs experienced great success: served 91 families visiting volunteers provided 1,193 hours of their time home care participants spent 7,787 additional days in their own homes, rather than a costly facility by delaying placement in medicaid-funded institutional care, the net savings totaled 630,553 100% of home care participants remained free of falls and fall-related injuries while in our care 100% of surveyed caregivers reported home care services and supports helped reduce their stress level 77% of surveyed participants reported that they feel less lonely and more socially connected, since starting services