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Aging and Adult Services - Prairie Five Community Action

Connects and provides older adults and their caregivers with services in their community to allow them to live long, healthy, and independent lives in their own homes. Services include: - Food Assistance: Congregate dining locations offering low-cost meals, low-cost frozen meals, home-delivered meals, NAPS, and SNAP - Healthy Living: Blood pressure checks, fall prevention screenings, telehealth conferences, Tai Chi and yoga sessions, and stretching/balance education - Information Services: Offers memory loss education and Dementia Friends, Medicare counseling and assistance, fraud/scam identification and prevention, assistance with internet search, assistance with Healthcare Directives and Power of Attorney forms, and classes to older adults - Mobile Community Center: Brings services and socialization to the door or community. The vehicle is equipped with high-speed internet, flat-screen TV, applications for programs, and meeting space for coffee and conversation. - Social: Offers card parties, coffee and conversation time, caregiver respite, karaoke parties, video calls and chats with friends, and social media assistance

Last assured

02/20/2025

Physical Address

1214 Atlantic Avenue East Highway 12, Benson, MN 56215

Hours

8 am - 4:30 pm Monday - Friday

Application process

Call

Fee

Vary by services

Required documents

Photo ID

Eligibility

Persons who are 60 and older or caregivers living in Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, and Yellow Medicine counties

Service area

Big Stone County, MN Chippewa County, MN Lac Qui Parle County, MN Swift County, MN Yellow Medicine County, MN

Agency info

Prairie Five Community Action

Community Action agency serving Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, and Yellow Medicine counties. Branch offices in Benson, Canby, Ortonville, Madison and Montevideo.

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