Medical Services:

• Glucose screening and blood pressure with Partners Home Health Care, VNA
  9:00 - 11:00 a.m. on the third Wednesday of every month.
  No appointment necessary.

• Hearing tests and Hearing aid checks with Tricia Wilbur
  on the last Monday of the month.
  You must call 508-697-0929 to make an appointment.

• Podiatrist Sarah Derosier is at the Senior Center approximately every 65 days.
  By appointment only. Call 508-697-0929 for more information.

Fuel Assistance:

• Outreach Department helps clients determine if they are income eligible and then assists clients with filling out forms and assembling necessary data.  Call 508-697-0929 for an appointment.

Transportation:

• Dial-A-Bat Services are available to seniors age 65 and older and anyone who is disabled. The service travels to locations in Bridgewater, Abington, Avon, Brockton, East Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, Whitman and Stoughton and to selected Boston hospitals. The cost of a trip in Bridgewater is $2.00 each way, $3.00 each way to other towns and $5.00 each way to Boston. Trips to Boston are only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A trip to Boston must be booked two days in advance before noon and by noon the day before for other trips. Call 508-697-0929 for more information.

• Council on Aging van is available to transport seniors to the Senior Center for the weekday congregate lunches and special events.

Nutrition:

• Congregate lunches are served Monday through Friday at noon. 
  The $2.00 donation for lunch is collected when reservations are made. 
  Call 508-697-0929 to make reservations by noon on the previous Wednesday.

• Meals-on-Wheels are delivered Monday through Friday to homebound seniors.  For more information call 508-697-0929.

Outreach:

• The Outreach department assists seniors in many ways, including Pharmacy and Insurance programs, emergency assistance, referral to other agencies and assistance with federal and state programs.

• Volunteer coordination including:

  • Transportation and occasional ride to a doctor’s appointment or treatments.

  • Friendly visits or phone calls to elders who are isolated.

  • Friends of Bridgewater Seniors is a newly formed organization to help fundraise for a variety of purposes.

  • Errands, including grocery shopping, pharmacy runs.

  • Yard work including snow shoveling, raking and hedge trimming.

  • Meals-on-Wheels delivery.

• Caregiver Support Group
  Anyone who is caring for a frail or ill elder is invited to attend the monthly Caregiver Support Group the last Thursday of each month from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Conant Community Health Center, 5 Wally Krueger Way, Bridgewater. Information and support regarding caregiving is available. The Caregiver Support Group is free and open to the public. Light refreshments are served.

If you are interested in volunteering, or for more information, please call 508-697-0929 and ask for Volunteer Coordinator Kathy Hayes.

Other Programs and Services:

• Are you OK?  - A free program which features a daily reassurance call from the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department to make sure the senior is OK.

• S.A.V.E. Program - (Senior Associates Volunteer Experience) To contract with qualified senior citizens to provide the benefit of their knowledge and experience and to provide a tax credit for services rendered. To enhance municipal services by using the skills of Senior Citizens. To increase Senior Citizen participation in Municipal Government.

• SHINE Program - SHINE Health Insurance Counselors provide free, confidential and unbiased health insurance information, counseling and assistance.

• TRIAD (Seniors and Law Enforcement Together) - TRIAD aims for public safety for seniors. A cooperative effort of the Office of Elder Affairs, Bridgewater Police Department, Bridgewater Fire Department and Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department.

Weekly programs including aerobics, chair aerobics, painters I and II, line dancing, and craft makers, quilting, creative writing. Call for information.