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ELDER SERVICES

Elders face a time that can provide many unique emotional challenges. Retirement, illness, loss of loved ones can all effect how well one deals with the retirement years. Sometimes anxiety and depression can seriously interfere with an individual's quality of life. Community Counseling's Elder Mobile Outreach Team provides expert counseling and psychiatric services to address these issues and help the individual to return to a more satisfying way of living.

Elders in psychological or emotional distress often experience barriers to seeking professional help. These barriers can be in the form of either misconceptions about mental health services, or physical challenges that prevent easy access to sites where services are delivered.

To help elders to overcome potential barriers, Community Counseling has created the Elder Mobile Outreach Team. We offer comprehensive services on an outreach basis for persons 60 years and over, referred by their local Councils on Aging or Bristol Elder Services. This team provides crisis intervention and evaluation, as well as brief interventions designed to return the elder to their previous state of mental and social health. We often assist in situations where there is any question of abuse, neglect of self-care, or where the person may present a danger to him / herself or others.

Partial Hospitalization Elder Track Program

Community Counseling provides an intensive, structured, comprehensive therapeutic milieu for elders whose mental status has destabilized and requires skilled outpatient mental health interventions in lieu of inpatient treatment. The program offers a supportive and caring environment as a stabilizing base for clients to learn new coping and problem solving skills. The track specifically focuses on the needs and challenges of the geriatric population, paying particular attention to co-occurring medical conditions.

If an elderly person's mental health needs become so acute that they require the structure and safety of a 24-hour inpatient setting, Community Counseling works closely with its affiliate, the Morton Hospital Elder Behavioral Health Services Unit, to provide a comprehensive set of treatment services emphasizing continuity of care and follow up.