Home and Community Based Resources

Helping Hand at Home

The ADRC offers a "Helping Hand at Home" worker referral list to Sauk County residents and their families who request help for various tasks, such as indoor chores, outdoor chores, and respite care. Criminal background checks are conducted and workers are interviewed. The workers included on the "Helping Hand at Home" list are NOT employed nor supervised by the ADRC.

To view the most current Helping Hand at Home list, see below.

If you would like to be included in the Helping Hands at Home list, you can fill out the application and background check online or print off a copy and mail into the ADRC.

Applications can be submitted online via Google forms: https://forms.gle/zzukpEBvSbTb46i48. Please note: If you are submitting your application through the Google Form, you must also submit a Background Information Disclosure (BID) form. A fillable version of the BID form can be found below. Submit Information Disclosure form to Marina Wittmann at the ADRC: marina.wittmann@saukcountywi.gov.

A printable application and background check is below. Please return to the ADRC (505 Broadway, Room 102, Baraboo, WI 53913).

In-Home Care

Home health services refer to health care services provided in-home to help with recovery from illness or injury. Examples of home health services include intermittent skilled nursing care (e.g. wound care and IV therapy), physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology services.

The Aging and Disability Resource Center wants to see people stay in their homes as long as possible. The agencies found in this guide serve all or parts of Sauk County. Here is an article titled "Aging in Place" that has great tips on what older adults should keep in mind before/while 'aging in place'. Click HERE for the link to the article.

Hospice/Palliative Care

Considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care for people facing a life-limiting illness or injury, hospice care involves a team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support tailored to the patient's needs and wishes.

Palliative care is specialized medical care focusing on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of serious and chronic illnesses such as cancer, cardiac disease such as congestive heart failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), kidney failure, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and many more. Palliative care can be combined with curative care toward complete recovery.

The Aging and Disability Resource Center wants to see people stay in their homes as long as possible. The agencies found in this guide serve all or parts of Sauk County.

Tele-Assure

Tele-Assure is a free service that provides regular telephone calls or e-mails to homebound elderly and/or disabled persons to check on their well-being and to provide the opportunity for daily socialization.

Contact is made during a pre-appointed time Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. If the client does not respond, approved emergency procedures are followed. The emergency procedures can include calling an emergency contact, such as a friend, relative, or neighbor or calling the local police.

The main purpose of Tele-Assure is to provide peace of mind to clients and their families as well as to provide a cheerful daily telephone call or e-mail.

Please call the Aging & Disability Resource Center at (608) 355-3289 or (800) 482-3710 for more information or to enroll today!