Respite Program Available

Local health officials are trying to increase the awareness of a program that gives family members or other caregivers who care for individuals still living at home, a break from those responsibilities.

Rainycrest Home Administrator Edith Bodnar says the short stay respite program provides for those seniors or adults to continue receiving their care by staying at Rainycrest for short periods of time.

"Clients can stay a few days," says Bodnar, "such as a weekend, a week or up to 60 days at a time. There is a maximum of ninety days in one year."

Bodnar says they have two private rooms set aside for the program and are staffed 24 hours a day.