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Alzheimer’s Association
 800-548-2111

The Alzheimer’s Association’s website contains information on many topics, including:

• Get day-to-day help to deal with Behaviors, Communication, Activities, Respite care and Memory loss
  
• Get support from Your local chapter, Message boards and Support groups about your health and care training
• How to plan for the future – including Legal matters, Care options, Paying for care, Safety and Dementia & driving

Click here to be linked to the 800AgeInfo website for additional information.

MedicAlert^® + Alzheimer’s Association Safe Return^®
888-572-8566

A 24-hour nationwide emergency response service for individuals with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia who wander or have a medical emergency.

Provides 24-hour assistance, no matter when or where the person is reported missing.

Massachusetts Dental Society
Two Willow Street
Southborough, MA 01745
800-342-8747

Click here for tips from the Health and Human Services website for where to find low-cost dental care.

DentalPlans.com
 866-815-6963

Use the search tool on the website to find a plan and/or a dentist that offers affordable senior dental care options through the ACA, Medicare, or Medicaid.

Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services

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Northeast Arc
Helps people with disabilities become full participants in the community; choosing for themselves how to live, learn, work, socialize and play.

Serving approximately 8,000 people in nearly 190 cities and towns.

Allsup
888-786-2190
email: allsupcares@allsup.com

Their specialized services include:

• Social Security Disability Insurance Claim Representation
• Overpayment Reimbursement
• Medicare Coordination
• Reverse Offset
• Allsup Medicare Advisor®

Independent Living Center of the North Shore and Cape Anne Inc.
978-741-0077

A service and advocacy center run by and for people with disabilities.

Supports the struggle of people who have all types of disabilities to live independently and participate fully in community life.

Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC)
800-245-6543 (Voice/TDD) or
617-204-3600

Responsible for Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Community Living Services, and eligibility determination for the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) federal benefits programs.

Deaf Inc.
35 Congress St., Suite 204
Salem, MA 01970
978-910-0165 VP/V
978-740-0394 TTY
978-740-0329 V

Deaf, DeafBlind, Hard of Hearing, and Late-Deafened people can find a range of essential programs and services in a Deaf-affirmative, supportive community environment.

All services are linguistically and culturally accessible for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, DeafBlind, and Late-Deafened people who use many different communication modes and have different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Lahey Medical Center, Peabody / Living Well with Low Vision
978-538-4400

Provides comprehensive eye care and complete ophthalmic medical and surgical treatment – all in a comfortable community setting.  

Also check: lowvision.preventblindness.org/

The Massachusetts Commission for the Blind
600 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111
617-727-5550
800-392-6450 (MASS. ONLY)
Voice  800-392-6556 (MASS. ONLY) TDD

A state agency, established in 1906, to provide a wide range of social and rehabilitation services to Massachusetts residents of all ages who are legally blind.

Agency services may address a number of varied needs of individual blind persons.

Massachusetts law (C.6, s.136) requires that all eye care providers who find a person to be legally blind report this person to the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind within 30 days of the date of examination.

Assisted Living.org

We are a community organization that is dedicated to helping people who are living with disabilities and the elderly fully enjoy their healthy years and age gracefully. Our organization is funded by private donors and is completely independent of sponsors and affiliations. 

A comprehensive resource that provides information on topics like available care options for people living with disabilities, financial support, and free resources that are available from each state.

Healing Abuse Working for Change
27 Congress Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-744-8552
24-hour hotline 800-547-1649

Offers a wide variety of comprehensive services to the community.

Whether a client is interested in leaving an unhealthy relationship, or is simply seeking more information about domestic violence and what it means, programs are designed to meet the individual needs of each person who is looking for help. 

Service area: all of North Shore including Cape Ann.

SeniorCare
49 Blackburn Center
Gloucester, MA
978-281-1750

Serves nine communities on Boston’s North Shore, including: Beverly, Essex, Gloucester, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester by-the-Sea, Rockport, Topsfield, and Wenham.

Provides and coordinates services to elders and others, enabling them to live independently at home or in a setting of their choice while remaining part of their community.

To qualify for homecare, you must be 60 years of age or older; a resident of Massachusetts, not live in a rest home, nursing facility, convalescent home, hospital, or assisted living residence, meet financial eligibility guidelines, and have been assessed by a care manager or nurse and found to be in need of services.

PROTECTIVE SERVICES
To report elder abuse call:
800-922 2275
24 hours a day
7 days a week

North Shore Elder Services
300 Rosewood Drive
Suite 200
Danvers, MA
978-750-4540

Offers a variety of successful elder care programs (ie: Home Care, Nutrition) to ensure older adults can live life to the fullest.

Most of the services are free, while others are low cost, and all are proven to deliver results.

As part of an interdisciplinary team, a care manager assesses an individual’s needs, then develops and monitors the plan ofelder care.

Several programs offer an increased level of services for frail elders at home.

Service area includes:  Danvers, Salem, Peabody, Middleton & Marblehead

PROTECTIVE SERVICES
To report elder abuse call:
800-922 2275
24 hours a day
7 days a week

Greater Lynn Senior Services
8 Silsbee Street
Lynn, MA 01901
781-599-0110

Provides a wide range of social services—information, transportation, meals, advocacy, homecare, housing, and more—for one reason: to help those 60 and older live fuller, more
independent lives, safely and with dignity.

Service area includes:  Lynn, Lynnfield, Nahant & Saugas

PROTECTIVE SERVICES
To report elder abuse call:
800-922 2275
24 hours a day
7 days a week

Mystic Valley Elder Services
300 Commercial Street, #19
Malden, MA 02148
781-324-7705

Supporting the well-being, dignity and independence of elders, adults
living with disabilities, and caregivers residing in Chelsea, Everett,
Malden, Medford, Melrose, North Reading, Reading,
Revere, Stoneham, Wakefield & Winthrop.

PROTECTIVE SERVICES
To report elder abuse call:
800-922 2275
24 hours a day
7 days a week

Acord Food Pantry
69 Willow Street
South Hamilton, MA
978-468-7424

Provides food assistance to the residents of Essex, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester, Topsfield and Wenham.

Beverly Bootstraps
978-921-4710

Provides critical resources to families and individuals so they may achieve self-sufficiency. 

Offers emergency and long-term assistance including: access to food, housing stability, adult and youth education, counseling and advocacy.

Note: Food pantry visitors must be residents of either Beverly or Manchester

The Open Door

Provides a free, three to five day supply of emergency groceries once every seven days for income-qualified residents of Gloucester, Rockport, Ipswich, Manchester and Essex.

The Salem Pantry
978-744-3224

Provides Salem residents with nutritious food and groceries in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.

Offers residents emergency food at the end  of each month when bills are due, but before salary and support checks arrive to ensure that local residents have health perishable food and groceries during times of need.

SNAP
866-950-3663

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the new name for the Food Stamp Program.

Helps people and families with low incomes buy the food the need for good health.

WIC
800-942-1007

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a program that provides nutrition, health education, health food, and other services free of charge to qualifying Massachusetts residents.