CSCS: Council of Senior Centers and Services of NYC, Inc.

Based on her professional experience, Bobbie Sackman knows that elder abuse often happens behind closed doors and often within families. She believes that it is time to stand and do something to protect the nation’s elderly.

5 things you can do right now:

1. Share a story via text or video
2. Encourage your Senators and your Representative in Congress to sign-on to the Elder Justice Act
3. Sign a petition
4. Watch and share others’ stories
5. Send your friends and colleagues to www.elderjusticenow.org to learn more

Are you taking care of your spouse, elderly parents or loved ones to keep them home?  Is Congress and the White House including medical and neighborhood services in health care reform to let people stay home and live with dignity? See the National Council on Aging (NCOA) for more information on health care reform. CSCS thinks there is NO TIME TO WAIT for affordable long term care services.

Call your Congressmember and Senator to say - include “long term care services” in health care reform. You can’t leave any seniors behind.

To Find your Congressmember and Senators click here

What are your ideas about what is needed to keep elderly loved ones at home and independent? What would you want for yourself?  We want to hear from you.