Miami Proud: Area Agency is rallying to help seniors in wake of Hurricane Ian

MIAMI – Charlotte Mather-Taylor has been busy since Hurricane Ian ravaged southwest Florida communities. Because the CEO of the Space Company on Growing old of Broward, it’s crunch time.

“We’re a part of a community of Space Company on Growing old workplaces, and we have been assembly with the others every day with the Division of Elder Affairs,” she stated.

Within the wake of Hurricane Ian, seniors are in want of every day gadgets, and her crew is rallying assist.

“We’re at the moment placing collectively a provide of walkers, grownup diapers, and different provides that they requested that they want for his or her seniors,” she stated. 

Meals and water are on the prime of the record, which they’ve managed to safe and ship in giant portions. 

The Dawn workplace is serving as a set web site proper now for the gadgets requested.

The Company is one in all 11 within the state and helps Broward’s over-60 inhabitants year-round with well being and wellness packages, authorized and technical assist, and ever for the reason that onset of the pandemic, meal supply.

“To this present day we’ve got delivered 5.7 million meals to seniors,” Mather-Taylor stated. “Among the newest packages created embody reward playing cards for meals procuring throughout this all-time excessive inflation.”

There may be all the time a necessity to assist essentially the most weak inhabitants, a few of who haven’t got household close by. 

Pictures of dramatic rescues of wheelchair-bound those that made the information this final week trigger Mather-Taylor to emphasize the significance of creating positive within the occasion of one other evacuation warning that individuals take motion.

“Relations {and professional} caregivers: If you already know of a senior who’s weak it’s good to make sure that they evacuate, you do not know what is going on to occur with the storms – they’ll shortly escalate and turn into a lot worse than projected,” she stated.

The hurricane reduction work is a protracted street as many seniors who had been evacuated to Broward, and different counties might be displaced for an prolonged time.

“There are those that misplaced their properties, that misplaced their work or are affected by many various issues, and we’re going to be a part of a long-term answer,” stated Mather-Taylor.

For extra details about this company’s work and their Hurricane Ian efforts, you’ll be able to name their helpline at (954) 745-9779 or go to their web site right here.