Health Information

Allendale Senior Housing

Allendale Senior Housing is a housing complex that is located on Cebak Court. This complex is made up of eight attached single family units. The complex is managed by Rainbow Property Management out of Verona, New Jersey. For more information about Allendale Senior Housing or to get an application please call them at (973) 533-1550 or log onto their website by clicking on the link below.

Rainbow Property

Community Meals, Inc. is a private non-profit "meals on wheels" organization serving Allendale, Glen Rock, Ho-Ho-Kus, Midland Park, Ridgewood and Waldwick.

Meals are prepared by The Valley Hospital's Food and Nutrition Services Department.  Volunteers deliver hot and or cold meals between 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, except on major holidays.  The cost of the meals is nominal, with a sliding scale for those clients unable to pay the full amount.

Community Meals welcome new clients, people who are homebound and unable, even temporarily, to prepare or obtain meals for themselves.

For further information call the office at (201) 447-8295 or e-mail us at communitymeals@verizon.net or visit our website at www.communitymealsonwheels.org

To prevent transmission of rabies to humans and their domestic pets, immunization and licensing of cats and dogs is required in Allendale.

Please be advised that Allendale residents must notify the health department and/or police department of all bites, scratches and other incidents involving domestic and/or wild animals, whether animal to human or animal to animal.

The Allendale Board of Health office has been contacted regarding the proper way to dispose of used needles and syringes generated in the home for medical purposes.

1. Needles and/or syringes must be placed in a protective container made of metal, tin or hard plastic such as a coffee can, detergent or Clorox bottle.  The lid must be placed back on, taped and marked homecare-needle/syringes.  This is to be disposed of in your regular trash and not recycling.  Additionally, a Red Sharps Container can be purchased in your pharmacy.  All of the above can be disposed of safety in your regular trash pickup.
2. Englewood Hospital (201) 894-3189 and Holy Name Hospital (201) 833-3371 offer a program whereby sharps containers are provided to the individual.  when they are full they are brought back and exchanged for empty ones.

Your cooperation is appreciated because improper disposal of the above poses a potential health hazard to family members, children, residents in our community, sanitation workers, pets and wildlife.

Should you have any questions, please call (201) 818-4400 ext 211.  Thank you.

The County of Bergen is please to announce this new program designed to check on the well-being of residents in need.

This program is available free of charge to Bergen County residents living alone, over the age of 60, homebound or disabled either on a permanent or long-term basis.

HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS

At approximate pre-specified hours, you will receive a free daily phone call from the Bergen County Wellness Check Program to check on your well-being.  The call will being with the following pre-recorded message: "This is a phone call from the Bergen County Wellness Check Program.  Please press "1111'  if you are okay."

When you become a participant in the program, you will be asked to identify friends or family who may assist you in an emergency.  When the system cannot make contact with you, it will call the relatives or friends you have designated.

If your telephone line is busy or there is no answer, the system will call back two more times over the span of twenty minutes.  If there is not answer or if the line stays busy, your primary and secondary contacts will automatically be notified to check on you.

The system will only respond to touchtone telephones or through TTY, a device for the deaf and hard of hearing.

REGISTRATION

if you would like to enroll in this program, please contact Jean Manus at (201) 818-4400 ext. 211 for an application.  Please complete the application and forward it to the address specified on the form.  You will receive a phone call prior to your first phone call to let you know your application had been processed.

With temperatures expected to hit the high 90's on and off throughout the summer, residents are urged to take steps to avoid heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

Heat stroke is a life-threatening condition and heat exhaustion can also require hospital care.  When the weather turns extremely hot and humid, it is vital to drink plenty of fluids, spend time in cool places and reduce or reschedule any physical activity.

Please remember to check on elderly family members and neighbors to make sure they are safe.

Listed below are some ways to avoid health complications from excessive heat:

• Drink plenty of water and other non-alcoholic beverages.
• Make sure children and the elderly are drinking water and ensure that persons with mobility problems have adequate fluids in easy reach.
• If you do not have air conditioning, spend time in air-conditioned places such as libraries, movies, malls or other public buildings during the hottest hours of the day.
• Wear loose and light-colored clothing.  Wear a hat when outdoors.
• Reduce physical activity or reschedule it for cooler times of the day.
• Don't leave children, a frail elderly or disabled person or pets in an enclosed car - NOT EVEN FOR A MINUTE - as temperatures can quickly climb to dangerous levels.
• Talk to your health care provider about any medicine or drugs you are taking.  Certain medications - such as tranquilizers and drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease - can increase the risk of heart-related illness.

People suffering heatstroke can go from normal to extremely ill in a matter of minutes.  Victims may have hot, dry skin, a high body temperature of 106 degrees or more, an absence of sweat and a rapid and strong pulse.  Victims may become delirious or unconscious.  Person suffering from heatstroke need immediate medical attention.

Heat exhaustion is a milder illness that may take several days of high temperatures to develop.  Victims may have pale, clammy skin and sweat profusely.  They may feel tired, weak or dizzy and have headaches, or sometime cramps, but their temperature will remain close to normal.

4 Steps for Proper Disposal

1. Keep medicine in original container.  Mark out personal information on prescription bottles
2. Mix liquid medicine with undesirable substances like coffe grinds, cat little or dirt.  Dilute pills with water and then add coffee grinds, cat litter or dirt.  Alternatively remove information and place pills in trash as most of it will be incinerated.
3. Place bottles in an opaque container, like a yogurt container, and secure lit; wrap in a dark colored plastic bag.
4. Hide the container in the trash do NOT recycle.

Improper disposal in your trash allows other to divert the substance and consume medication that was not prescribed to them.

Do NOT dispose of medication down the drain or toilet.
Do NOT keep excess or expired medication around the home.

Prevent water pollution, promote a healthy environment and properly dispose of your unneeded and expired medication.

Fore more information contact the DEP Solid & Hazardous Waste Program at (609) 633-1418.

Take the following precautions to protect against mosquito-borne viruses:

• When outdoors, use insect repellent containing an EPA registered active ingredient
• Eliminate standing water where mosquitoes can lay eggs
• Install or repair window and door screens
• Support community based mosquito control programs

The telephone number for the Bergen County Mosquito Control is (201) 634-2883.

For information on Meals on Wheels please click on the link below.

Meals on Wheels