Older adults are our greatest treasures. Over the years they have touched our lives as our parents, teachers, and role models, and as they grow older, they deserve to continue enjoying their lives to the fullest.
For close to 40 years, Service Program for Older People has been showing adults in the New York area that aging is no barrier to maintaining an active and meaningful life. With a philosophy based on professionalism and respect, SPOP has consistently remained at the forefront of its field, offering a wide range of personalized mental healthcare services, useful educational resources, and professional counseling, all within a warm and caring environment.
SPOP is now recognized as one of New York’s leading providers of mental health and related services for older adults, with services that include:
Nancy Harvey, SPOP’s Executive Director, participated in the October 2011 Geriatric Mental Health Foundation Invitational Conference on Model Programs for Home Based Mental Health Services to Older Adults
Nancy Harvey, SPOP’s Executive Director, gave a presentation at the Washington, DC Geriatric Mental Health Foundation Invitational Conference on Model Programs for Home Based Mental Health Services to Older Adults on best practices and how SPOP’s Homebound program can be replicated elsewhere.SPOP was one of 10 agencies invited to participate in this national conference, which was a result of SPOP having received the first annual 2009 Geriatric mental Health Foundation/American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Deirdre Johnston Award for Excellence and Innovation in Geriatric Mental Health Outreach Services.Ms. Harvey’s presentation reflected on SPOP’s 40 years of success in providing homebound mental health services.
Over the past four decades SPOP has helped thousands of older adults in our community through comprehensive mental health and supportive services, advocacy, and education. SPOP is there for a population who are often unable to advocate for themselves. We make sure that older adults with behavioral health issues do not slip through the cracks, whether they are the most frail, isolated homebound older adults, or those requiring bilingual Spanish-English Services.
Ms. D is an 81 year old single woman with a long history of major depressive episodes, including two suicide attempts and several psychiatric hospitalizations. Following her last hospitalization two years ago, upon release, Ms. D was referred to SPOP’s Homebound program for mental health services by her Hospital. Ms. D began receiving weekly home visits from SPOP’s clinical staff, due in part to her depression that left her socially isolated and unable to leave her apartment. In addition, Ms. D suffered from neuropathy of the spine which made it both difficult and painful to get around. As a result of the home visits, this client was encouraged to see the SPOP psychiatrist, who took over Ms. D’s psychotropic medications, stabilizing the client for the first time in years. Since then, Ms. D has not been re-hospitalized, is attending physical therapy sessions twice a week, is re-engaged with her friends, and has returned to her great passion of seeing live opera whenever she is able to do so.
SPOP also provides a broad spectrum of services including an onsite Clinic, an Adult Day Center for adults with memory loss, Bereavement Support Services, Continuing Day Treatment Program for older adults with serious and/or persistent mental illness, Education and Training, and Substance Abuse Counseling for clients diagnosed with both mental health and substance abuse problems.
Your gift to SPOP will help us provide professional mental health services in a non-stigmatizing environment which will assist older adults to live independent and productive lives. Please click here now to make an online donation.
Service Program for Older People, Inc. (SPOP) is proud to have been featured as the Agency of the Month in the October 2011 issue of New York Nonprofit Press. To read the article in its entirety please click on the link below.
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