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Services For Seniors
| Organization Name: | Utah Food Bank Services |
| Address: |
1025 South 700 West Salt Lake City, UT 84104 |
| Phone: | 801-887-1275 |
| Fax: | 801-978-9565 |
| URL: | http://www.utahfoodbank.org |
| Map URL: | http://mapit.utah.gov/viewmap?args&mbox=422190:4509796:424190:4511796&m... |
| Services Provided: |
1. Home Repair & Maintenance - provides minor household repairs, appliance repair, and interior/exterior painting for low income senior citizens and disabled homeowners. Must have income at or below $1,788 per month for 1 person or $2,046 per month for 2 persons, be 60+ years old or disabled.
2. Nutrition Assistance Project - provides supplemental food boxes that are delivered by caring volunteers to low income, home-bound senior citizens and people with disabilities. Must have income at or below $1,225 per month for 1 person or $1,650 per month for 2 persons, be 60+ years old or disabled, unable to easily access food, no access to a vehicle, and no able bodied persons living in the home. 3. Friends Program - provides relief from isolation and loneliness. Volunteers are matched with frail, isolated, elderly and disabled people, providing weekly friendly visiting and telephone reassurance. Must be 60+ years old or disabled, living alone, no access to a vehicle, and limited social support. 4. Chore Services - lawn care, yard clean up (spring and fall), snow shoveling for Salt Lake County residents over the age of 60. 5. Prescription Assistance - helping older and disabled persons who are unable to pay for prescriptions access the free drug assistance programs provided by the pharmaceutical companies. Must have income at or below $1,633 per month for 1 person or $2,200 per month for 2 persons, be 60+ years old or disabled, and have no access to any prescription drug coverage. |
| Eligibility: | Varies according to service, see eligibility guidelines under |Services|. |
| Wheelchair Accessible: | Complete |
| Source: | Utah 2-1-1 / Utah Food Bank |
| Last Updated: | 6/18/2010 |