Stepping Up for Seniors provides seniors in-need, sustainable assistance and support to help overcome challenges caused by poverty, isolation, and medical conditions. They do so with understanding and faith in a compassionate and safe environment using an optimistic voice, helping the seniors in-need feel cared for and be positively impacted.
Stepping Up for Seniors Program Services
Stepping Up for Seniors helps financially challenged seniors overcome a medical crisis by providing one time support and on-going education. Many of the seniors in need of Stepping Up for Seniors assistance may exceed the required income for Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) yet they are surviving on a limited income of less than $1500 a month.These seniors need medical care but lack the resources to meet the required deductible, coinsurance, and copayments for medical services. Stepping Up for Seniors program services include assistance with medical supplies, medical services, dental assistance, hearing aides, basic needs, along with directing seniors to educational resources, counseling, and referrals to community agencies that help sustain financially insufficient seniors from a future medical crisis.
Stepping Up for Seniors Loneliness Project
Many of the seniors served by Stepping Up For Seniors outlive family members and live far away from relatives. These orphan seniors are childless, unfriended, without surrogates, and live in social isolation. Stepping Up for Seniors partners with Amazon to provide customized interactive socialization technology designed to decrease perceived loneliness and social isolation among orphaned seniors. The technology engages seniors through social support, increases opportunities for social interaction, addresses maladaptive social cognition, and improves social skills among seniors who are struggling financially and living in isolation.
Stepping Up for Seniors Passion, Purpose, Action Project
Stepping Up for Seniors joins community partners to offer program services for low income seniors throughout Arizona.
Stepping Up for Seniors Show You Care Project
Multigenerational projects offering individuals of all ages the opportunity to engage with seniors.
