Covenant Place serves low and extremely low income seniors by providing affordable housing in a supportive and caring environment in St. Louis County, Missouri. We seek a grant in support of our Homemaker Services program. This program provides housekeeping services, on a sliding fee scale, for our frailest residents (difficulty performing two or more activities of daily living) who are no longer able to keep up with their housekeeping and other essential chores.
The majority of current residents are 88-100 years old and 68% of residents are women. Because 40% of our residents fall into the "frail" or "at risk" categories, they struggle to remain in an independent environment when they can no longer bend down to clean their toilets or tubs or change their bed linens. In Missouri, outside of the VA system, there are no subsidized assisted living facilities; for most of the residents at Covenant Place there only option for additional support is a Medicaid bed in a nursing home.