Resources
Senior & Disability Resources
Nationwide Lifts
919-341-1361
tim.lord@nwlifts.com
Installs and services residential elevators, wheelchair lifts and dumbwaiters for your home. Also provides commercial wheelchair lifts and dumbwaiters for businesses or churches. Offers many unique products that can be specifically designed to compliment your home or business. More affordable than you might think. Call for a free consultation.
Resources for Seniors
919-872-7933
Provides home- and community-based services and information in the Wake County area so that they can maximize their choices for independence, comfort, safety, security and well-being. They provide information and support for decision-making, and also direct services such as home care, adult day care, senior centers.
Refinance Mortgage Rates for People with Disabilities
This guide seeks to provide the relevant and essential resources needed to navigate the myriad of red tape and sometimes rigid processes regularly associated with real estate purchases for the disabled.
AARP North Carolina
866-389-5650
AARP works on the issues that are important to 50+ Americans, including health and financial security and livable communities.
A Place for Mom
A nationwide information service about eldercare options including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult family homes, independent living and home care agencies. Provides information and options that meet a loved one’s stated needs and preferences. No cost to families. Contact Lesa Brown.
800-718-0801
919-442-5252
Provides exceptional, compassionate home care to North Carolina’s Research Triangle and Sandhills areas. They serve those who need assistance caring for themselves: someone who is aging or has a disability or chronic medical condition; a child with special needs; someone recuperating from medical care; or a family with a newborn who can use a helping hand. Aegis delivers a wide range of at-home assistance to make life better and easier for our clients and their families.
Arts Access Inc.
919/833-9919
A nonprofit organization based in Raleigh, NC that makes the arts accessible to people with disabilities; provides audio description for theatre patrons who are blind or have low vision; refer arts administrators to sign language interpreters; and provide accessibility training to arts organizations and arts accessibility information to the public.
Alliance of Disability Advocates
Promotes independence and consumer control by people with disabilities and to advance civil rights of equal access and full participation in society. In 2008, the A.D.A. of North Carolina presented Lewis Sadler with an award for Triangle Access Award for outstanding achievement in removing architectural barriers through its LifeStage Design division.
Independent Living Source
Provides a wide array of assisted living technology products for people with disabilities, competitively priced.
ElderGadget
A resource for people with an aging loved one can go to find the latest gadgets that meet a seniors needs and maybe some products you have never dreamed possible.
North Carolina Assistive Technology Program
The North Carolina Assistive Technology Program (NCATP) is a state and federally funded program that provides assistive technology services statewide to people of all ages and abilities. These devices are designed to assist with everyday functions including mobility, learning, speech, hearing, vision and many others. NCATP allows people to demo these devices at their AT Centers. The centers have training seminars, demo and loan programs, and a trading post where people can exchange devices.
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing
Dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and veterans through fly fishing and fly tying education and outings.
Partnership for Assistive Technologies (P.A.T.)
919.872.2298
P.A.T. is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to assistive technology and information technology for North Carolinians with disabilities through training, equipment recycling, advocacy, and technical assistance. They partner with state agencies, non-profit groups, the Southeast ADA Center and grassroots disability groups to help make communities accessible for people with disabilities and to ensure access to the tools they need to live independently, work, access educational and recreational opportunities, and participate in community events. Assistive technology empowers people of all ages to move, to see, to hear, to communicate, to read, to learn, to access computers and the internet, to plan, to play, to control their environment and to independently accomplish the tasks of daily life.
IMAGINE – (Increased Mobility & Greater Independence Equipment)
919.779.3487
IMAGINE is Raleigh-based non-profit that provides mobility equipment to disabled people throughout the triangle. They manage a revolving gift program for mobile equipment such as wheelchairs, scooters, walkers and modular ramps. The program is designed to provide resources based solely on need. They hold a Technology Expo every December.
Access Homes NC
919-573-8776
Karen Barbour is a Disability Housing Specialist with a broad background in disabilities. She specializes in Accessible Homes and Universal Designed homes in the Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham and RTP area of North Carolina. Karen has vast knowledge the rights of the disabled. She is fluent in ASL (American Sign Language).
UnitedHealthCare Children’s Foundation – Grants Available!
The UnitedHealthCare Children’s foundation has grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded to parents and legal guardians of disabled children for health care services and medical equipment inadequately covered by insurance.
Arts Access of Raleigh
A nonprofit organization based in Raleigh, NC, Art Access of Raleigh makes the Arts accessible to people with disabilities throughout the Triangle area of North Carolina. Specifically, they provide audio description for theatre patrons who are blind or have low vision, refer arts administrators to sign language interpreters, and provide accessibility training to arts organizations and arts accessibility information to the public.
Gold Coalition
Gold Coalition is a public/private organization focused on Wake County Aging issues, including housing. One of their most important outreach missions includes arranging for home improvements and repairs for seniors in need on an as-needed basis. Volunteer programs can also assist with painting and other minor repairs. For more major repairs, loan and grant programs are available through the City of Raleigh, Wake County, and the USDA.
Special Olympics of North Carolina
The Special Olympics organization provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
Miracle League of the Triangle
This is quite a special organization, whose sole mission is to provide opportunities to all children with special needs to play baseball regardless of their abilities. They have constructed special facilities that meet the unique needs of players and their families. If you have a child with special needs, or would like to participate in one of their game events, feel free to reach out.
The Brain Injury Association of North Carolina
(919) 833-9634 or 800.377.1464
The BIANC develops, supports, and/or administers programs, services, and activities that make a difference in the lives of men, women, and children and military and veterans who have been affected by the trauma of brain injury. Sadler has been an ongoing supporter of their annual walk-a-thon.
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Eastern North Carolina
919.834.0678
For over 40 years the Eastern North Carolina Chapter has remained committed to providing quality programs and services, raising vital research dollars and improving the lives of the more than 4,900 individuals living with MS in eastern North Carolina.
UniHealth Post-Acute Care-Carolina Point
919-402-2450
Post acute rehab/skilled nursing facility. The center features a state-of-the-art physical plant including physical, speech and occupational therapy, 36 rehab suites, modern nurses stations, 35 private rooms, a spa, coffee shop, and internet café. Clinical programs to maximize patient’s function level and return them to an appropriate community setting. The organization is known for its proactive performance improvement programs and post-acute care services.
Articles
AARP Article: Aging in Place
The AARP supports the needs of retirees in so many ways. Their website is packed with information to help retirees and soon-to-be-retirees manage their health and life in a productive and happy way. This article on Aging in Place offers great insight into this growing trend.
Tardive Dyskinesia
800-584-6601
Tardive dyskinesia is a condition that may develop in patients who use metoclopramide, a drug sold under brand names such as Reglan in the United States.The best treatment for tardive dyskinesia appears to be prevention, either by lowering the dosage of a medication known to cause this condition or switching the patient to a different drug.
Blogs
Blog: Disaboom
Don’t let the funny name sway you. Disaboom is a comprehensive online resource for people living with disabilities, their immediate families and friends, caregivers, recreation and rehabilitation providers, employers, and other related communities. They have a newsletter that you can subscribe to which is packed with useful information.
Blog: The Future of Aging
This blog has a lot of useful information. It is managed by the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), a not-for-profit organization whose members offer the continuum of aging services: adult day services, home health, community services, senior housing, assisted living residences, continuing care retirement communities and nursing homes.
Blog: Seniors Aloud
This blog covers a wide range of topics that affect our aging population, from social issues to useful new gadgets and technologies!
Government Resources
North Carolina Division of Aging and Adult Services
Administration on Aging
Administration on Aging (AoA) is to help elderly individuals maintain their dignity and independence in their homes and communities through comprehensive, coordinated, and cost effective systems of long-term care, and livable communities across the U.S.
Division of Services for the Blind
Help people in North Carolina who are blind or visually impaired remain independent and find jobs.
Raleigh, NC
(919) 733-9822 or 866-222-1546
Library Services for Readers with Visual or Physical Disabilities
Operated by the State Library of NC, it loans books and magazines especially made for people who cannot use standard print materials due to a visual or physical disability.
(919)733-4376 or 888-388-2460
NC Division of Services for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing
A statewide network of programs providing a wide variety of services to Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf-Blind people.
(919)874-2212 V/TTY or 800-851-6099 V/TTY
NC Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
An organization for North Carolinians with significant disabilities. Provides an array of services including providing an alternative to institutionalization, improve functioning in one’s family, home and community and assist in preparing a person for a vocational rehabilitation program.
(919)855-3500 or TTY (919)855-3579
