SAGE Eldercare Services

Listed below are eleven of the services that SAGE Eldercare offers to the elderly.
Click on each service for more information.
SAGE SPEND-A-DAY

Spend-A-Day Adult Medical Day Care Center provides medically supervised activities for frail or impaired adults in a group setting. Our skilled services, combined with our extensive social and recreational programs, are a viable option to in-home or nursing home care.

The SAGE Adult Medical Day Care Program provides seniors with social, mental and physical stimulation while caregivers get the respite they need.

Spend-A-Day offers two levels of programming:

Initial Program – for the older person who can participate in a full schedule of group activities.
Special Needs Program – offers additional assistance to those who are experiencing early dementia or physical limitations and provides appropriate individual and group activities that reinforce basic skills while reducing the anxieties and frustrations that often accompany advancing illness.


Spend-A-Day offers:
  • Experienced, professionally trained interdisciplinary staff.
  • Registered nurse on-site to monitor medications, blood pressure and weight management and to coordinate health care plans with primary physician.
  • Modern, custom-designed facility.
  • High staff-to-client ratios and personalized care plans.
  • Extended hours to accommodate working caregivers (8 am – 5:30 pm, Monday through Friday).
  • Assistance with financial arrangements.
  • Transportation assistance to and from Spend-A-Day as well as physical, speech and occupational therapy appointments.
  • Also included: hot lunch and snack, entertainment, massage, pet and music therapies.
  • Referrals for laboratory, x-ray, dental, ophthalmology and podiatry services are offered and are billed directly to the client’s insurance provider.
  • Optional bathing service available at an extra charge.


    Here’s what our clients and caregivers say about us…

    "The experience has been wonderful for my mother. Her spirits and mood have been tremendously elevated and she looks forward to getting up and waiting for the bus."

    "I haven’t seen her this happy in a long time and I believe the environment has improved her memory as well."

    "She loves all of the people who are working at SAGE and enjoys spending time with the other adult members in the program."

    "My mother adores SAGE. Our family really appreciate how full and loving you help make her life."

    Hours: Monday – Friday, 8 am - 5:30 pm

    SAGE Spend-A-Day
    290 Broad Street, Summit
    (908) 598-5520

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SAGE HOMECARE
Accredited with Distinction by the Commission on Accreditation for Home Care

An experienced professional staff works closely with the client and appropriate family members to deliver quality care that will meet the individual needs of the client and his/her family.

SAGE Home Health Aide Service Provides…
  • Aides certified by the New Jersey Board of Nursing, who receive 14 hours of in-service training yearly.
  • Flexible scheduling, ranging from one-hour bath service to 24-hour care, including weekends, overnights, and live-in service.
  • Initial nursing assessment, with bi-monthly nursing visits at no extra charge.
  • Services available for personal care, family respite, homemaking, bathing, and assistance to medical appointments.
  • A plan of care, developed by a registered nurse and tailored to meet the client’s individual needs.
  • Compassionate care, encouraging the client’s independence.
  • Emotional support to client and family.
  • In-home supervision of aides by a registered nurse.

    SAGE HomeCare
    290 Broad Street, Summit
    (908) 273-8400

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Home Health Aide of the Year 2006

Doreen Murell

“I love my job,” said Doreen Murell. “You have to love something to do it well.” SAGE’s HomeCare Department has named Doreen SAGE Eldercare’s “2006 Home Health Aide of the Year.”
Doreen has lived in East Orange for 14 years, after emigrating from her native Guyana. She said proudly, “Working at SAGE was my first job in America.” According to Deborah Scales, Staff Manager in SAGE Eldercare’s HomeCare Department, Doreen is all you could wish for a Home Health Aide to be. “She is a joy to work with,” said Ms. Scales. “She works with an Alzheimer’s patient who has lost the ability to speak his native Chinese. Amazingly enough, she has worked out a special spoken ‘code’ with him, and now they are able to communicate very well.”

Doreen said of her client, “He will be 95 this year. When I arrive every day, he taps my shoulder and shakes my hand. I call him Papa. We understand each other.”

Remembering a long-ago lesson from her homeland, Doreen said, “In Guyana they have a saying: ‘Once a man, twice a child.’ When we were young, someone did for us, and when we get older, someone has to do for us again.” Serving our seniors is important, but also challenging. Doreen’s philosophy sums it up beautifully: “For this work, you must have love in your heart.”

SAGE INFOCARE
Information and referral for older adults and their families

 "I would not hesitate to suggest SAGE to anyone in the community if all your personnel are as compassionate as the Director of InfoCare."

If you are an older adult or a family caregiver and don’t know where to turn for help, or if you cannot manage the bureaucracy of existing senior services, SAGE InfoCare can help.

Your concerns will be addressed promptly by a knowledgeable and caring
professional, and we follow up with you to make sure that our referrals were useful and that your needs were met.
  • Community Resources
    • Adult Day Care
    • Home Care
    • Nursing Homes
    • Transportation
    • Geriatric Assessment Centers
  • Information
    • Entitlements
    • Housing Options
    • Legal Issues
    • Seminars
    • Support Groups
    • Long Term Care Insurance
  • Eldercare Specialists
    • Elder Law Attorneys
    • Visiting Nurses
    • Case Managers and more!

    SAGE InfoCare
    290 Broad Street, Summit
    (908) 598-5509

SAGE P.R.E.P.
People Responsible for Elderly Persons
Caring for an elderly loved one can be a demanding and stressful responsibility. Help is available at P.R.E.P., a monthly caregiver support group led by a professional eldercare specialist. P.R.E.P. provides opportunities to:

• Meet others with similar concerns.
• Share common problems and solutions.
• Acquire knowledge of available community resources.
• Learn effective problem-solving and coping skills.
• Receive emotional support from other caregivers.

P.R.E.P. Groups Meets:

Third Wednesday of each month, 7 pm—9 pm

Cost: Free to the public (Donations are welcome!)

SAGE P.R.E.P.
290 Broad Street, Summit
(908) 598-5509

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SAGE MEALS ON WHEELS
Hot meals with a warm smile

"I’d rather lunch with SAGE Eldercare than at some fancy restaurants in the area. The quality of the food is great and I enjoy the meals. I am sure that Meals on Wheels is keeping me out of a nursing home."

Established in 1966, SAGE Meals on Wheels was one of the first meal delivery programs in New Jersey.

Professionally planned and prepared meals provided by the Union County Kitchen are delivered to individuals aged 60 or older who are unable to food shop or cook for themselves, or who may need respite service following a hospital stay.
  • Caring Meals on Wheels volunteers have a brief friendly visit with the
    people to whom they deliver meals.
  • A choice of one or two meals is delivered at midday, Monday through Friday. Saturday delivery is available for those most in need or without local family support.
  • Each professionally planned meal provides one-third of the recommended daily dietary allowance.
  • Some special diets can be accommodated. For further information on special diets available in your area, please call.

SAGE Meals on Wheels makes deliveries to Berkeley Heights, Chatham and Chatham Township, Millburn, Mountainside, New Providence, Short Hills, Springfield, and Summit.

Please contact Marianne Kranz, Manager
SAGE Meals on Wheels
290 Broad Street, Summit
(908) 273-5554

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SAGE SHOPPING SERVICE
"The shopping service is not only a great help to me—keeping me well supplied with food essential to my diet—but it is such a relief to my daughters who do not live nearby, and can be assured I am taken care of."

SAGE offers a shopping and errand service to residents of Summit, New Providence, Berkeley Heights, Millburn, Short Hills and Springfield who are age 60 or older. This service offers:
  • Grocery shopping for the homebound, or those recuperating from surgery or illness.
  • Along with the food shopping, SAGE shoppers will do errands at the post office, dry cleaners, and laundromat.
  • Your personal shopping list is picked up once a week. Food is delivered to your doorstep.
  • Laundry is picked up once a week and returned to you clean and folded.
  • Services are available at a nominal fee.

    Please contact Marianne Kranz, Manager
    SAGE Shopping Service
    290 Broad Street, Summit
    (908) 273-5554

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SAGE RESALE SHOP
A good buy for a good cause

That’s how SAGE Resale Shop Cooordinator, Rose Rittweger, describes the double benefit of shopping at the SAGE Resale Shop. Since 1959, the Resale Shop’s unusual variety and exceptional quality of goods have attracted collectors and homemakers alike from Summit and many surrounding towns. Goods are obtained through individual donations, sometimes as part of an estate. All profits support SAGE’s eldercare programs.

Household items, small appliances, furniture, bric-a-brac, books and clothing are sold at very attractive prices.

Items are accepted for sale during store hours. Please call ahead for large or heavy items. Tax-deductible gift receipts are available.

Donations of everyday and one-of-a-kind items are always welcome.

Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 am - 4:30 pm

SAGE Resale Shop
31 Chatham Road, Summit
(908) 273-5564

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SAGE WORKSHOP
Volunteer crafters

Do you need a chair caned or rushed? Does a table need repair? If you need furniture repair, the volunteer craftsmen at the SAGE Workshop can help.

Since 1961, the SAGE Workshop has offered the public fine-quality furniture repairing. The Workshop has especially earned a reputation for repairing and reweaving cane chairs. Prices are reasonable and depend upon the condition of the chair or furniture item to be repaired and the materials required in the restoration process.

The workshop volunteers will consider repairing any piece of furniture that can be carried into the workshop. The woodworkers also offer handcrafted gift or decorative items for sale. Currently the Workshop features a decorative wooden kitchen step stool and a child’s caned “Teddy Bear” chair available in three sizes. The craftsmen will also consider special commissions.

None of the woodcrafters is a carpenter or furniture restorer by vocation; they have gained their skills through years of experience in woodworking and furniture repair as a hobby. New volunteers with basic skills and a love of craftsmanship are always welcome.

The Workshop is now located in the lower level of the SAGE building at 290 Broad Street and is accessed through a rear entrance.


Hours: Monday thru Friday, 9 am – 12 pm

SAGE Workshop
290 Broad Street, Summit
(908) 598-5531

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