A Livable Community has affordable and appropriate housing, supportive community features, and mobility options. Together, these features facilitate personal independence and the engagement of residents in civic and social life where everyone can grow up and grow old with maximum independence, safety and well-being.

Information, Resources & Events for seniors, and those who care about seniors, are posted below. Check back often to read the latest updates.

Information, Resources & Events

Events 

A Guide to an Active Lifestyle for Seniors: Social, Fitness, Cultural, and Learning Activities

You're never too old to play!  Download this Johnson County resource guide to social, fitness, cultural, and learning activities.

Weekly Radio Show Focuses on Seniors

JCLC Annual Report to the Community - Survey Results

View the results from the 2011 JCLC Community Input Survey conducted at the Annual Report to the Community event.

View guest speaker, Brian Kaskie's slides.

 

Inclusive Services for LGBT Older Adults: A Practical Guide to Creating Welcoming Agencies

Produced by the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, this 28-page resource guide provides information to assist agencies in providing the best possible services to all communities.

Iowa's Silent Generation:  Resilient, More Experienced, but Disconnected

This research report prepared by Iowa Connect indicates a "gray gap" as seniors remain hesitant to adopt home broadband service.

Home Accessibility & Maintenance Assistance Programs

Basic home maintenance, simple wheelchair ramp construction, and installation of home safety items are now available to seniors and those with disabilities through four local programs: HAP, Ramp-Up, Many Hands-Light Work, and Weatherization.

LGBTTQI in Johnson County Information and Resource Guide

The LGBTTQI Aging In Johnson County resource guide is compiled by the Visibility Action Team.  The manual's purpose is to provide LGBTTQI aging adults and their caregivers with information about important aging topics, especially those unique to the LGBTTQI community. LGBTTQI stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, and Intersex. This manual will hopefully provide insight into the unique challenges and needs of the community, as well as provide information on helpful resources, both locally and nationally.

Guardianship and Conservatorship in Iowa

Iowa Legal Aid recently finished the 2011 update to the Iowa Developmental Disabilities Council's publication Guardianship and Conversatorship in Iowa: Issues in Substitute Decision Making. This 79 page document is very complete yet easy to understand. The booklet is posted on their website, and available by clicking the link above.

Talking With Your Doctor: A Guide for Older People

How well you and your doctor talk to each other is one of the most important parts of getting good health care. But, talking to your doctor isn’t always easy. It takes time and effort on your part as well as your doctor’s.  Talking with Your Doctor, a guide produced by the National Institute on Aging, is available in pdf version for immediate download or can be ordered in print through the NIA website.

 

When Driving Becomes a Challenge: Conversations & Options

Resources for Older Drivers, Their Families and Friends is a guide compiled by the University of Iowa Center on Aging.  In addition to resources provided by the Center on Aging, the guide includes links to The Hartford, National Center on Senior Transportation, AARP, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, and the Iowa Department of Transportation.
 

JCLC Transportation Services Booklet Updated

View or download the latest version of this popular guide to transportation and mobility options for Seniors in Johnson County.

Plan Your Future - Booklet

The JCLC Plan Your Future Action Team and the Solon Senior Advocates have produced two resources to help seniors plan for transitions:

Transitions Resources

Making Things Easy for My Family

 

Announcements

Transportation - Assistance for Medicaid Recipients

Does Medicaid Insurance cover you or your family?

If so, you could qualify for a Medicaid transportation benefit to help you access health care services.  Iowa Medicaid Enterprise (IME) has contracted with TMS Management Group, Inc. to arrange non-emergency medical transportation for Iowa Medicaid members.  TMS Management Group, Inc. begins operating the statewide transportation brokerage on October 1, 2010.  Medicaid members will need to call a brokerage call center at 1-866-572-7662 to qualify for the transportation benefit and to have transportation arranged for health care appointments.

Couple of things to consider

In the past, the Medicaid transportation benefit only applied to members seeking health care outside of the community in which they live. The transportation benefit will expand to include members seeking health care inside the community in which they live or in-community transportation beginning October 1, 2010.

TMS will not be qualifying or coordinating transportation for those who have transportation benefits through Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) or Medicaid waivers.  Members will continue to arrange Medicaid waiver transportation as they currently do.
 
Questions?

Call TMS Management Group, Inc. at 1-866-572-7662.  For further information, check details at:  http://www.tmsmanagementgroup.com/iowa/
 

JCLC on Local Television

JCLC City Channel 4 programming schedules are available at http://www.citychannel4.com/tv. Programs are also available for viewing online at http://www.citychannel4.com/video.