Beginning with Respect for You
to age at home, remain healthy, and stay active and connected to the community you know and love.
Listen to CVCOA clients' own words about the impact that your support for our services has on their lives.
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Our Mission
Central Vermont Council on Aging (CVCOA) is the leading expert and advocate in healthy aging for Central Vermonters. At CVCOA, we respect the wishes of aging persons to age at home, remain healthy, and stay active and connected to the communities they know and love. We offer programs and services for people age 60+, caregivers, and their families. Our mission is to support Central Vermonters to age with dignity and choice. We're grateful to all sponsors and donors who support this mission.
Monthly New to Medicare Workshops help individuals who are new to the Medicare system. Click here to learn about health insurance counseling options.
Our Helping Paws program provides free veterinary services through Mitzvah Fund's mobile clinic, and a newly launched pet food program provides supplemental food to dogs and cats.
We're hiring case managers to support a growing need for services. Learn more and apply today!
CVCOA Events
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Memorable Times Online: We Get Around!
On the ground, on water, and in the air; on feet and skis, on rails and all kinds of wheels. Maybe with the help of a horse! What have been YOUR favorite ways of going from one place to another? Come share stories, pictures and musical memories about "getting around!"
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August 2
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
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Join the Brain Injury Alliance for a day of caring for the caregiver. We'll meet for a light breakfast, attend sessions to help you in your caregiving journey, lunch, and an afternoon activity. Survivors will meet with Vermont Adaptive for a day of fun.
Register at https://www.classy.org/event/2nd-annual-caregiver-retreat/e492908
Memorable Times Online
Memorable Times Online: We Get Around!
On the ground, on water, and in the air; on feet and skis, on rails and all kinds of wheels. Maybe with the help of a horse! What have been YOUR favorite ways of going from one place to another? Come share stories, pictures and musical memories about "getting around!"
Join us on Zoom:
August 2
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Memorable Times Online is the virtual memory café offered by Central Vermont Council on Aging in partnership with the ABLE Library of the Vermont Department of Libraries. It meets the first Wednesday of each month from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. on Zoom. This dementia-friendly program is free and part of the memory café movement growing all around the world. Registration is required. Get in touch with CVCOA to find out more!
BIA VT Caregiver Retreat
Caring for the Caregiver
Join the Brain Injury Alliance for a day of caring for the caregiver. We'll meet for a light breakfast, attend sessions to help you in your caregiving journey, lunch, and an afternoon activity.
Register at https://www.classy.org/event/2nd-annual-caregiver-retreat/e492908
CVCOA News & Announcements
View AllTaking Care of Yourself as a Caregiver
As a caregiver, it's easy to focus all your energy on the person you’re caring for and forget about your own needs. Taking care of yourself is crucial -- not only for your own health and well-being, but also for the quality of care you provide to ...
Locally Run Memory Cafés Alleviate Social Isolation
One major way that CVCOA’s Family Caregiver Support Program helps address social isolation among caregivers and those they care for is through Memory Cafés.
CVCOA Expands Meals on Wheels Services with Therapeutic Meal Training Initiative
CVCOA is enhancing support for its 13 partner meal sites through specialized training in the production of Therapeutic Meals for the Meals on Wheels program.
Paying it Forward: A Meals on Wheels Volunteer's Story
Marybeth Longo volunteers with the Waterbury Meals on Wheels program 5 days a week and helps with pretty much everything.
Preparing for Medicare Open Enrollment
You can make changes to your Medicare coverage each year during Medicare’s Open Enrollment, which runs October 15 to December 7.
Grey Muzzle Grant Gives Senior Dogs at CVCOA a Second Chance
CVCOA was recently chosen to receive a grant from The Grey Muzzle Organization to help local senior dogs and the people who love them.
Brenda, you did a fantastic job with S.B. Your approach was person centered and despite all the difficult twists and turns of this case you stayed true to S.B. Her last years were better in no small measure because of your efforts. I am so proud to serve with you. Thank you so much!
One person at a time, you have made the lives of older Vermonters better with support and companionship. The services you provide are part of being in a caring network to support Central Vermonters. Every single day our volunteers make a significant difference in the lives of others.
To Karen and Rhenee, Thank you both for your valuable time and patience with me. You eased my discomfort with the ‘system’ and made it fun. It looks like you solved my dilemma within one hour.
You are truly a life-saving ‘warrior.’ Please continue to do what you do so well.
This is a difficult case and her work has made this Vermonter’s life so much better.
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