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| Your gifts and donations make a difference in the lives of Atlanta 's seniors. |
 Consider the value of assisting seniors to stay in their own homes. In 2003, Medicaid paid about $42,045,000,000 for an estimated 1,780,000 elderly nursing home residents who were unable to pay all or part of their nursing home bill. In the same year about 8,200,000 older Americans were served by Older American Act providers. The cost of providing these services is estimated to be $3,660,000,000. When you start crunching those numbers into individual numbers - you come up with an equation that puts the cost for maintaining one elderly person in a nursing home under Medicaid at about 50 times the cost of providing services to help an older adult remain in their own communities. This is what SCS does - provides the ounce of prevention with true worth beyond a pound of cure. And SCS has been at the heart of the aging network in Atlanta for more than forty years, providing vital services designed to enable seniors to enjoy a high quality of life, maintaining their independence and dignity. From delivering Meals on Wheels that help insure seniors are getting the nutrition they need; to keeping seniors from losing their homes through our HOMES program; to matching seniors who need non-medical help and support with volunteers through the CareShare program - These are just three examples of both proven and progressive programs that SCS delivers for its clients. Your philanthropic partnership with our organization is vital to fulfilling our mission of helping seniors thrive, and in some cases, survive. Please click here to make an online donation. It's safe and secure and will automatically fuel the SCS mission! Contact the Development Office at SCS: breakingnews@scsatl.org , or directly at
(404) 605-8445
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