LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- After 60 years in Louisville, ElderServe said it's stopping its services immediately but hopes to bring them back one day.
Since 1962, ElderServe has supported aging adults across Louisville Metro. The nonprofit said the pause comes in part due the COVID-19 pandemic and a changing philanthropic landscape.
"We've been struggling for years," ElderServe CEO, Patty Belden said.
The organization will temporarily be inactive due to low resources.
Back in 2016, ElderServe and GuardiaCare Services, Inc. merged into one organization, the single organization then moved into the former GuardiaCare building.
It's primary headquarters at 631 S 28th St. was supposed to undergo a $2.5 million renovation starting in May of 2019, but it never happened.
"We had found ourselves in a vulnerable place financially and so our funders who had been supporting the campaign, released those funds and allowed us to use those for operations, which is a big reason why we have lasted as long as we have," Belden said.
ElderServe leaders are looking at the best ways to emerge stronger and working to identify alternative services for participants.
"And to step back, reevaluate the community needs and hopefully come out of this a stronger organization," Belden said.
It's the goal that between six months to a year, a plan can be worked out so that volunteers can once again say welcome home to the west Louisville's aging population in need.
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