Services Program
Dedicated to bringing a high quality of life to our elderly, handicapped, and disabled residents — empowering independence and community connection every day.
Program Contact
The Housing Authority of Bowling Green offers a service program for their elderly, handicapped, and disabled residents. The mission of this program is to assist the frail and disabled elderly — committed to bringing them a high quality of life and allowing them to remain in their home and live independently.
The senior program provides an active program of exercise, recreation, art, music, community outings, and health education. The goals for each participant include maintaining independence and optimal functioning, encouraging socialization, and decreasing social isolation and elder abuse.
This program operates five days a week to better serve our elderly residents. Regularly working with these residents helps them maintain their socialization skills, provides emotional support, and improves their self-esteem.
The senior program at HABG provides a stimulating and therapeutic environment for the isolated elderly who are often overlooked in today's society.
- Counseling with residents
- Health education classes
- Bill payment assistance
- Record keeping & budgeting
- Paperwork for illiterate residents
- Referrals to work programs (55+)
- Advocacy with DCBS
- Education classes (reading, writing, math, art, computers)
- Exercise & walking classes
- Social & recreational activities
- Medicaid/Medicare paperwork
- Food stamps advocacy
- Tax rebate forms
- Recertification for public housing
- Prescription pickup & filling
- Weekly pill box reminders
- Transportation to/from doctor
- Medical assistance coordination
- Personal grooming assistance
- Monthly shopping trips
- "Safe Shopping" with Sheriff's Dept. at Walmart
- Monthly & weekly prayer meetings
- Monthly potluck & birthday party
- Commodities delivery (100+ residents 60+)
- Weekly food bank visits
- Disaster preparedness
- Home visits at all five sites
- Multi-page resident assessments
- Individual care planning
- Elder abuse & depression screenings
- Arranging in-home services
- Social isolation screening
- Scam awareness information
- Identity theft prevention
- Elder abuse prevention & reporting
- Financial exploitation awareness
- Abuse documentation support
- Resident rapport building
- Physical & emotional abuse
- Psychological abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Neglect & self-neglect
- Abandonment
- Financial or material exploitation
The Housing Authority of Bowling Green Senior Program provides anywhere from 10 to 15 social and recreational activities per month for our elderly residents. Residents normally receive some type of prize for participation — cleaning items, personal hygiene items, and household items that cannot be purchased with food stamps.
At the end of the month, when money is tight, these residents are in need of many items. The senior program at HABG provides a stimulating and therapeutic environment for the isolated elderly who are often overlooked in today's society.