Senior services

Culpeper Star Exponent
Published: August 24, 2007

Senior services

Rappahannock-Rapidan
Community Services Board
15361 Bradford Road, Culpeper
Phone: 825-3100

The Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Board offers a variety of services, listed below, to seniors in Culpeper and surrounding counties.

- The Culpeper Nutrition Site, at 710 U.S. Ave., provides balanced meals to those age 60 and older from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Additional nutrition sites are located in each of the four surrounding counties.

- The Area Agency on Aging provides information for seniors. A board-provided van service transports seniors to the nutrition site, shopping areas and medical appointments.

- Advocacy services are provided to help identify needs among older persons and find resources to meet needs. Advocates provide assistance with public benefits and help with post-hospitalization plans. Trained aides may assist with tasks to enable seniors to remain in their own homes.

- The "Voice of Experience" newsletter is published every other month by the board to inform older persons of local issues and events of interest.

- The board supports the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, which provides volunteers to assist a variety of community organizations and programs for the aging. Lola Walker is the representative for Culpeper's RSVP program.

- Emergency services are offered in the form of small, one-time grants to assist seniors with emergency needs.

- Adult day care is provided with daytime assistance to older persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease and related disorders at the Shadow Lawn Senior Center in Warrenton.

- The Job Training Partnership Act provides funding to help train and place low-income persons age 55 and older in competitive employment. Title V provides subsidized employment for low-income persons age 55 and older.

AARP

The American Association of Retired Persons provides information about resources for seniors. The group meets on the first Monday of each month at 2:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall of Culpeper Baptist Church.

MEDICAID

Culpeper County Dept. of Social Svcs.
219 E. Davis St., Suite 10
Director: Calvin "Chip" Coleman
Phone: 727-0372

Medical equipment

VFW

Culpeper Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2524 operates a program through which people needing wheelchairs, walkers or other types of health care equipment can use such equipment without having to purchase it.
Phone: 825-1910

Medicare and Social Security

Social Security Administration
400 S. Main St., No. 101
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday
Phone: 825-3501