Information Center a blessing for S.C.

Those who have had to seek help for aging parents or grandparents know the sometimes-helpless feeling that can come with trying to get information about finding adequate help.

Lt. Gov. André Bauer learned first-hand this year the perplexing situation that family members can find themselves. He and his mother had to try and find help for his grandfather whose health was failing. Even the lieutenant governor of the state can find that knowing where to turn for help is a confusing matter.

There is help available for families, but knowing where to look is often the problem. News of the opening of the Aging and Disability Information Center here in Aiken should go a long way to ease the anxiety of families who don't know where to turn.

The Center, to be administered here in Aiken by the Lower Savannah Council of Governments, will provide answers for those seeking help for the elderly and disabled in our state. Not only will ADIC provide answers, it will seek to initiate contact between citizens and the appropriate agencies and to resolve problems.

More than two dozen government and social service agencies have agreed to participate in the ADIC program, putting enormous resources at the fingertips of staff members.

ADIC offers South Carolinians an opportunity to place one call in order to begin getting answers when those unexpected situations arise.

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