Senior care

WVIA News' Roger DuPuis and Lydia McFarlane talk about SCI Waymart's program that trains inmates to work in facility's hospice care program.

SCI Waymart is one of two Pennsylvania prisons with a personal care unit for inmates. As a result, its population is older than most of the Commonwealth’s prisons. Administrators recently revamped its hospice program, a volunteer-based program that allows inmates to get trained in hospice care for other inmates at the end of their lives.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging Jason Kavulich joined Lackawanna County’s Area Agency on Aging and other organizations serving older adults for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the new Older Adult Advocacy Center in Scranton, the first of its kind in the state.

Twice a month, attendees of the Memory Cafe, including those with memory loss diseases and their loved ones, gather for laughs, crafts and support.

Five years after acquiring three Luzerne County senior care facilities from the Diocese of Scranton, Allied Services celebrates the changes made under its leadership.