Project Independence Services Inc.

Serving seniors and disabled people over the Greater New Bedford area, Project Independence provides a program of services and activities that enable these individuals to remain in their homes and communities—helping to bridge the gap between total independence and long term care. Your loved one will benefit from a safe and reassuring environment where they are treated with dignity and respect. Certified geriatric nurses and a professional, multilingual staff provides health care monitoring, challenging activities stimulating social experiences, and good nutrition.

 

Our Story

Our History

Project Independence, a community-based, non-profit organization, was founded in 1982 by a group of individuals concerned with the health and wellbeing of the elderly and disabled who needed assistance and support in order to remain independent and live at home.

Through our unique, flexible programs, we strive to:

  • Recognize each individual’s unique strengths and weaknesses as well as their potential for growth and development.
  • Assume a holistic approach to well being—recognizing the interrelationship among the physical, social, emotional and environmental factors.
  • Restore and stimulate capacities for independence through promoting positive attitudes toward self-image, while providing supports for functional limitations.
  • Reduce the isolation and prejudice usually associated with the frail and impaired.
  • Ensure continued relationships within the family structure and community by enabling your loved one to maintain those roles for as long as possible.
  • Prevent premature/inappropriate institutionalization by helping families meet and cope with all the physical, social, and emotional needs of your loved one.
  • Become an extended family for participants and caregivers by offering them the resources, education, support, and counseling they need.
  • Affirm the value of human life, dignity, and self worth of your loved one.

What is Adult Day Health?

Bridging the Gap Between Independence & Long Term Care

Do you need to go back to work, take care of your family’s needs, take care of yourself? Research suggests that day health can benefit everyone by engaging the participant while allowing you to experience less stress (and therefore less illness).

Day health allows your loved one a cost-effective means to remain in familiar surroundings while benefiting from the social and medical care they need. Working with both participants and their caregivers, Project Independence strives to enhance the participants’ quality of life. You will receive individual support in a safe and secure environment.

We are Medicaid certified and funded by other health insurances, handicap accessible and licensed to accommodate 80 participants daily.