Life Senior Services Inc

Last year, life senior services (life or lss) helped over 30,000 seniors, caregivers and disabled adults navigate challenges and opportunities by providing information, education, and services to help them maintain their independence and quality of life. Additionally, life is a trusted community resource, providing information and resource to health and social services professionals who support seniors. Lss offers a wide variety of programs and services to meet the needs of seniors and caregivers, including: seniorline: aging can present new challenges and questions, seniorline focuses on providing answers, solutions and resources. Lss's seniorline brings convenient access to hundreds of services through dozens of organizations. Callers are connected not only to life's services, but to local, state, and national programs, helping address problems, large and small. Adult day services: lss offers adult day services at two locations in tulsa and one in broken arrow. Life's adult day health centers offer a safe, friendly, daytime home for adults who may be socially isolated, have a physical impairment, alzheimer's, dementia, mental health issues, or a developmental disability. The centers also provide support to family and caregivers, making the time at home more manageable and enjoyable. Case management services: aging in place is the goal for most of us. Lss's medicaid advantage program and independent case management teams focus on helping people remain independent and safely at home. By matching a senior's needs with in-home and community-based resources, case managers help fill the gaps that threaten an individual's independence and safety. With the right supports in place, seniors can remain independent, safe, comfortably at home. Caregiver support services: lss offers support and services essential for successful care giving. Personal resource counseling, information and referral, classes, support groups, and three resource centers help lighten the load of caregivers of all ages. Behavioral health services: seniors may experience mental health challenges at the same rate as other age groups, but they are the least- likely demographic to seek help. Therefore, it is particularly important to remove any barriers for seniors who may need professional therapy. Changes such as chronic illness or loss of a spouse can cause depression or anxiety. Life's behavioral health services are free of charge to any senior who needs them, and are especially designed to meet the unique needs of aging adults; some of these services are provided in partnership with family and children's services. Community education: lss offers a variety of community education programs and an active speaker bureau to help older adults and their families learn more about issues, services, resources, and opportunities. Active senior center: research shows that staying active and socially connected are key components to aging well and living longer. Life's active senior center at roma berry is a gathering site for the area's active 50 and better community, offering a place to visit with friends and engage in a wide variety of educational and social programming. Offerings include yoga, ceramics, social gatherings, line dancing, theater, music classes, barre classes, board games, dances, pickleball, day trips and much more. Publications: lss publishes "the vintage newsmagazine" an award-winning publication written especially with seniors' interests and issues in mind. It reaches over 34,000 readers monthly, and is a trusted resource for information on senior issues. Lss also publishes two annual vintage guides to housing and services, one in tulsa and the other in oklahoma city. These guides provide oklahoma's most comprehensive guides to resources and services both in northeast and central oklahoma. Medicare assistance program: the medicare assistance program offers information, education, and personal one-on-one enrollment assistance to medicare beneficiaries in 17 counties in northeastern oklahoma, sponsored by the oklahoma insurance department. Through medicare assistance with part-d enrollment, life helped 4,216 seniors last year find more effective plans, resulting in a total of 2,570,710 saved in prescription costs. Volunteers: lss offers a variety of volunteer opportunities to seniors, serving as a centralized resource for seniors wanting to volunteers and non-profits who need help. Volunteers also help here at lss, assisting us and those we serve in a multitude of ways, serving as board and committee members or their donation of time provides a personal touch and allows life to maximize its impact. Tax assistance program: the tax counseling for the elderly (tce) program offers free tax preparation assistance annually by trained irs-certified volunteers, available to help seniors age 60 and older, making 68,000 or less annually, with free, basic income tax preparation and electronic filing. In 2024 life prepared and e-filed returns for 1,888 taxpayers. Volunteer programs: seniors can stay informed and engaged in their communities through volunteering. Life supports over 90 non-profits in the area with senior volunteers. Seniors who wish to volunteer can come in and seek direct placement, or explore a variety of volunteer options through the give 5 volunteer education program. Education: life offers a variety of educational programs to the community, from topics ranging from basics of medicare to decluttering your home. Our education department also offers ceu classes for a variety of senior- serving professions. General administrative and fundraising: accounts for the administrative operations of lss, and fundraising campaigns and special events to obtain donations to support life's programs. Life is uniquely broad in its range of services for seniors. Its comprehensive nature allows seniors and caregivers to spend less time researching, and have a resource for a variety of issues. It helps identify solutions in an often-complicated landscape, and enhances the quality of care as needs change. As an umbrella organization, lss provides an effective and efficient combination of programs, providing abundant resources for lower administrative costs.