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A community-based resource for older adults and their families 322 South Green
Street, Suite 210, Chicago, Illinois 60607 Overview Central West Case Management Unit offers programs to enable older adults to live as independently as possible and assists family and friends in care giving responsibilities. Our professionally-trained staff of case managers perform in-home and hospital-based assessments to evaluate an older person=s needs and resources, secure and link them with needed services, and provide ongoing monitoring of the individual plan of care.
Through the Illinois Department on Aging Choices for Care program, case managers visit all west side medical centers to assess the older adult prior to discharge. An older adult is able to choose community-based services, if their medical and physical abilities allow, as alternatives to long-term, institutional care. The older adult, significant others, and the case manager develop an individual plan of care that includes all identified areas where assistance may be needed, including help with activities of daily living, personal hygiene, and household chores.
The Central West Case Management Unit serves older adults residing south of North Avenue, north of the Sanitary Canal, and east of Austin Avenue to Lake Michigan.
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