Adult Day Services at Heritage Manor Awarded $17K Grant

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Mahoning County Commissioners, through Direction Home of Eastern Ohio, awarded Adult Day Services at Heritage Manor a $17,836 grant from the Ohio Department of Aging’s Healthy Aging Grants. 

The funding will be used to provide evening and weekend care for respite visits for Mahoning County residents age 60 and older, a news release states.

Adult Day Services at Heritage Manor, 517 Gypsy Lane, provides a program of activities in a professional care setting for individuals who require supervised care during the day, or those who are isolated and lonely. It’s for homebound adults in need of socialization, adults who are not safe at home alone while a caregiver is at work or running errands and adults whose caregiver is in need of respite. 

The program includes on-site nursing, is wheelchair-accessible and is Veterans Administration approved.

Care is currently available during the day Monday through Friday, but the grant will allow the program to provide respite care for evening and weekend hours, the release states.

Pictured at top: Photo via yajf.org/heritagemanor.

Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.