Services are offered Monday through Friday with transportation included in the daily fee. Opened in February 1993. Mobile Meals Programs Sentara Life Care Corporation prepares meals through five different sites for delivery to the home bound elderly. Over 850 meals are prepared and delivered every day, Monday through Friday. Inc. Sentara is also contracted with the Area Agency on Aging at three other sites, which deliver meals to the elderly in Norfolk, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth and Hampton.
Volunteers earn credits for services provided which they can redeem for future services themselves.
Services include transportation, companionship, phone reassurance, meal preparation, shopping and light housekeeping. Subscribers activate a signal through a communications button, where trained monitors speak through the speaker phone in the Lifeline communicator, to provide immediate assistance. If there is no response or assistance is needed, the monitor promptly notifies family members, neighbors, friends or emergency personnel. Us Copyright 1999 Sentara Healthcare. All Rights Reserved.