The Pennnyrile Area Agency on Aging and Independent Living focuses on the wellbeing of senior citizens, and Agency Director Amanda Stokes spotlighted the services they offer as well as some obstacles they are facing at Thursday’s Hopkinsville Kiwanis Club meeting.
The agency operates in Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd and Trigg Counties. The agency is also under the Pennyrile Area Development District’s Health and Family Services branch. Stokes says they work to connect senior citizens to resources with the goal of helping them stay safe at home.
The agency supports senior citizens centers in each county served and offers personal care, senior home delivered meals, legal assistance, senior employment programs and much more. In the Senior Home Delivered Meals Program, folks get meals five days a week and Stokes says it’s also a chance for meal deliverers to check on residents…