The Adult Care and Enrichment (ACE) Center is a nonprofit organization founded in 2003, to provide educational training and support services to seniors and family caregivers. As individuals age, additional assistance may be required for them to perform daily tasks. Spouses, adult children, and other relatives are then faced with the reality that a family member needs help - either occasionally or daily - on a temporary or permanent basis. Help can range from running errands or grocery shopping to personal care or paying bills.These new responsibilities can become overwhelming for the family caregiver and frustrating for the senior requiring assistance.

To assist you, the efforts of the ACE Center are three-fold. First, we seek to provide the resourceful information and referral services needed to enhance your understanding of what to expect when family caregiving is required. For example, did you know that assisted living and professional in-home care may be alternatives to nursing homes? Or that grants are available to help seniors needing assistance to purchase their own home?

Another service the ACE Center offers is the necessary training for individuals to learn how to manage new lifestyle changes during the caregiving process. This training may include books, support groups, workshops or lecture series to help you learn how to effectively assist your loved one. Caregiver training, for example, may help you to learn ways of preventing most falls in the home, improving home safety, and recognizing which services you and your loved one may need.

Finally, the ACE Center focuses on stress mangement techniques to help the Caregiver to discover ways of coping with the long-term disability or illness of a loved one. Studies have found that caregiving can actually create higher levels of stress upon the person providing the care. This may cause the Caregiver to become more ill than their disabled loved one. It is, therefore, important to care for yourself as you care for others.

Caregiver assistance applies not only to family or friends offering help to loved ones over 55, it also applies to seniors caring for themselves.
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