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EXCEPTIONAL SENIORS
provides psychotherapy for patients with mental She has partnered with APS on hundreds of cases,
health needs by assessing them to ensure that to bring assistance to those in various types and
their environmental needs are met through service levels of neglect. She and her team assess and
connections and navigation as needed. provide medical and mental health services where
virtually no other options are available.
Hospice and home health agencies are sometimes
reluctant to enter homes with severely unsanitary Without Sally and her team at Senior House Calls,
or hoarded conditions, which can result in further hundreds of Adult Protective Service clients and
neglect for the client and/or safety issues for vulnerable clients in our community would go
agency employees. Sally and her team at Senior without primary care physician services and
House Calls go wherever they are called and there remain in neglect. Sally’s pioneering spirit and
is an identifiable need. Sally is not deterred by passion for people have proven to be an invaluable
environmental barriers, cultural barriers, mental asset to APS as a community partner, and she
health barriers or non-compliant behaviors. sets an example for all of us for what it means
Actually, that is where Sally shines the brightest. to provide quality care for the underserved and
She serves her clients with a non-judgmental vulnerable populations of our community.
disposition and allows them dignity and respect.
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