Providers We Love

We are privileged to have received referrals from and be able to coordinate care with many Assisted Living facilities, rehab facilities, and Medicare Home Care and Hospice agencies. Our growth is in large part due to the trust the staff in these organizations have put in our caregivers. We are likewise impressed with them and we are committed to referring to them on a regular basis


Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, Middlebury CT
The Seasons Hospice team believes we should all be born into and leave the world in comfort, warmth and love.

The caregivers at Seasons Hospice hold steadfast to placing patients and their loved ones at the center of hospice care. A team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, music therapists and volunteers provide compassionate clinical Seasons Hospice is a community-based organization with a mission to find creative solutions that add quality to end-of-life care. It has special programs that go above and beyond traditional hospice care.

Some of their specialty programs include:

A Touch for All Seasons-Uses a person centered approach to improve quality of life through meaningful sensory activities that stimulate the senses, promotes relaxation, and offers comfort and serenity to those living with dementia and other diseases.

Leaving A Legacy- offers people the opportunity to share important stories, family traditions or messages of love via audio or video recordings

Music Therapy- Seasons Hospice has more Certified Music Therapists on its staff than any other hospice in the nation. Even when people are no longer conscious or speaking, we console and comfort them with music. Research has shown that music is the last sense that registers with a dying patient. It is especially helpful in connecting people to happy memories of the past, reducing anxiety, and communicating with people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

The Seasons Hospice care team is available 24 hours a day by phone to answer questions or assist with a referral.

1579 Straits Turnpike Unit 1-E,
Middlebury, CT 06762
Phone:
203-490-1000
www.seasons.org and www.seasonshospicefoundation.org


Seabury Active Living Retirement Community, and
Seabury at Home, Bloomfield

One of Connecticut’s first retirement communities, Seabury has grown impressively from its original facility. The sprawling campus now boasts several individual residences, from apartments to substantial single homes. Their memory care unit is superb. The surroundings provide lovely views in all seasons. An immense fitness facility, including a large pool promotes continued fitness of older adults. Seabury boasts an impressive participation of its residents in the fitness facility. Seabury also has an innovative Life Care program and Seabury at Home service. Their home care program provides both Medicare as well as home private duty services for the community and surrounding area. Their health care center boasts state of the art short-term rehab in a beautiful setting. There is excellent coordination with their Home Care agency, which provides nursing, and all therapies, following a comprehensive home safety assessment prior to discharge. It is a privilege to work in co-operation with them.

Seabury also has an innovative Life Care program and Seabury at Home service. This program allows seniors to remain in their homes while taking full advantage of the full scope of services at Seabury.

It is a privilege to work in co-operation with our colleagues at Seabury.


Vitas Hospice, Middlebury, Fairfield, Hartford
Vitas Hospice is among our top choices for a wonderful hospice provider. Their beautiful acute care inpatient unit at St Mary’s is just another reason to refer folks there who is struggling with their family members’ care under hospice. Vitas have distinguished itself on its response time, its amazing and unique Veterans program and its commitment to providing continuous care.
Continuous Care is provided by Vitas RNs and LPNs on a 24-hr basis. The vast majority of people have expressed their desire to end their lives at home in peace and comfort. Vitas excel in this area. We are proud to be a referral partner.

Contact information: 1-866-418-4827


SLM Senior Options. Central and western Connecticut
Sheri Morris, MSW, ACSW, LSSW is the owner of this unique senior services company providing a variety of much needed useful interventions for seniors and their families, including home assessment, family counseling, assistance with maximizing insurance benefits, locating good community services, bill payment, households management and much more. Sheri is extremely knowledgeable, personable and helpful.

She will provide a complementary assessment.

Contact her at:

Email: sheri@myseniorcareconnection.com
Phone: 860-658-5440
http://www.myseniorcareconnection.com/



Weatherby and Associates, PC, Bloomfield, CT North Haven, New London, and Stamford
The attorneys at Weatherby & Associates, PC have a unique approach that goes above and beyond what most people expect from a law firm. Their goal is to help their clients live as well as possible, as long as possible, and as much as possible where they want. They establish long-term relationships with their clients and their clients’ families so they can maximize their resources and deal with the inevitable changes in their life circumstances.

One service that sets them apart is their Life Care Plans, where they provide assistance with care coordination; family education on elder care matters, health and financial decision making; care advocacy; crisis intervention; and other supportive services. In addition to attorneys and paralegals, their team includes a Life Care Coordinator, a nurse who assesses clients’ physical environment, health status, and socialization, and makes recommendations about how to improve their level of safety and quality of life as well as providing health care advocacy for the client.

Weatherby & Associates, PC has a comprehensive, team-based approach and works collaboratively with other advisors and health care providers to help clients protect and care for themselves and their families.

If you have just completed a will, you have just begun your planning process. Consider attending an informative seminar at Weatherby & Associates.

Call Weatherby & Associates, PC at 888-822-8778 or visit their
Website weatherby.com


We are happy to report that several folks have told us they use this column when seeking a provider for themselves or their family members. We take our recommendations of providers very seriously. Please consider our favorites in deciding care for yourself or your family members. We would choose any of them for our loved ones. ■