• Homemaking Services: Routine, light household tasks to maintain an adequate living environment for older individuals with functional limitations. Tasks include laundry, meal preparation, dusting, vacuuming, mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms and kitchen, making beds, shopping, and maintaining a safe environment.
• Home Care Assistance: Assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, transferring, eating, and ambulation.
• Respite Care: Relief for the caregiver of a person who requires continual supervision in order to live in their home or the home of a caregiver. A provision of companionship, supervision, and/or assistance with activities of daily living. May include homemaking and home care assistance duties.

Eligible participants must: 

• Live in Ontonagon County and be 60 years+

• Be unable to perform activities of daily living.

• Be able to benefit from in-home assistance, maintaining an adequate living environment and socialization. 

To apply for services, please contact Lake Gogebic Senior Citizens Club Inc. today.

Ontonagon County Commission on Aging/Lake Gogebic Senior Citizens Club Inc. provides two adult day centers: the Cozy Corner Adult Day Center in Ewen and the Safe Harbor Adult Day Center in Ontonagon. Each provides a special place for your loved one. They provide daytime care for functionally and/or cognitively impaired people.  A person centered planning approach is used to identify each participant's strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

Eligible participants must: 

• Live in Ontonagon County 

• Require a regular caregiver and supervision in order to live in their home.

• Be unable to perform activities of daily living.

• Be able to benefit from opportunities for social activities. 

Participants can:

• Make new friends through our relaxed program with social activities like:

• Playing Cards - B-I-N-G-O - Lunch
• Arts & Crafts - Music & Entertainment
• Holiday Celebrations
• Outings to Nearby Attractions
• Reading, Relaxation, Computer Games
• Indoor Gardening

• Reduce isolation by being with other adults.

• Sleep better by being more active during the day.

• Participate in sensory stimulation.

• Foster interest and enthusiasm for living by promoting a sense of purpose and meaning in life.

• Delay or prevent nursing home placement. 

Our program offers a supervised, fun-filled, and safe environment; it gives the person a chance to get out and socialize with others. It keeps them mobile and increases their mental stimulation through interaction with others. The adult day center allows caregivers to have a break from their responsibilities of caring for their loved ones.

Cost:  

Partial funding for this program comes from grants through Federal and State Funding. A cost-sharing program is implemented based on income. Individual, organizational, business, and foundational support is gratefully accepted. All donations are welcome.

Lake Gogebic Senior Citizens Club Inc. offers a medical escort program to seniors age 60 or older who need transportation assistance to medical facilities.

We ask clients to cover the cost of parking fees and any other costs associated with the trip. If the trip is over four hours, we also ask the client to provide the driver with meal costs for a lunch as a general courtesy. Our agency provides a mileage reimbursement up to 200 miles round trip. Anything over 200 miles would need to be covered by the client.

We need a 48-hour or more advanced notice to make the proper arrangements and contacts. If your appointment is scheduled on a Monday, please notify the office by the prior Thursday.

The medical escort program has a limited budget. Donations are welcome and help increase our budgeted amount. Donations can be mailed to our office. If you have any questions and for more information on our Medical Escort Program, please give us a call.

• Live in Ontonagon County  and be 60 years+

• No other source of transportation