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Care Partners

Care Partners director Paula Wolfson with members of Palo Alto Unity Church
Care Partners

Avenidas Care Partners provides multiple services to help you or your loved one age in place, connect to the community, resolve any crisis and most importantly, pro-actively plan for changes in your lifestyle.

  • Call Paula Wolfson, LCSW, Manager, ACP, at (650) 289-5438 to request an elder care consult, crisis intervention, family mediation, and emotional support during these challenging times.
  • Call Tracy Hughes at (650) 289-5437 for information, assistance, and case management.

New ACP Town Hall September 21


Pablo O'Brien, CLPF, a white man in his fifties with a receding hairline, wearing a blazer and a button-down shirt and standing in front of shelves full of legal books

Proactive Planning for Financial, Legal, and Health — Consider a Fiduciary!

Learn how a fiduciary can help manage your financial, legal, and health matters in the event you need assistance and/or require a proxy decision maker.

Guest Speaker: Pablo O’Brien, CLPF
Moderator: Paula Wolfson, LCSW

Register Online

Care Partners Videos

Town Hall Video: Consider a Fiduciary

Designating Your Power of Attorney (Video)

Aging Wisely: Proactive Planning (Video)

Aging Wisely: Solo Aging (Video)

Aging Wisely: Revitalizing Elder Care

COVID Variations and Compassion Fatigue (Video)

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We’re here to help you…

  • Reduce Stress
  • Cultivate Resilience
  • Support family caregivers’ health and wellness
  • Age in place with referrals to adult day health and home care
  • Navigate emergency room admissions and discharge planning resources
  • Understand insurance coverage for skilled care and costs for custodial care
  • Understand patients’ rights and the Medicare Appeal Process
  • Secure resources for relocation to assisted living and memory care
  • Create your Caregiver Support Team

Our mission is to help family caregivers navigate complex legal, financial and health care systems, enhance communication strategies, reduce stress and practice self-care.


If you have any questions, please call the Avenidas Care Partners Information and Assistance telephone line:

1 (650) 289-5433

Care Partners Services

Information & Assistance (I&A)

By phone or in person, our I&A specialist provides resources, in-home care, adult day health care, insurance, transportation, and legal and financial assistance. Available Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Free Case Management Services

Avenidas has a special service for low-income Santa Clara County residents over the age of 60 who are frail or homebound. One of our clinically trained social workers will evaluate the situation and determine what services might be needed to remain safe at home. This is a free service for those who qualify.

Free Family Caregiver Support Group

Martha Chan from the Avenidas Care Partners support group participated in this 60-minute video where family caregivers share their stories.

The Avenidas Care Partners weekly family caregiver support group is inclusive: members are spouses, partners, adult children, siblings, and legal guardians who are caring for a loved one with a chronic or terminal illness, fragility, physical and or cognitive decline. 

We begin each group with a check-in and remind members to respect one another’s privacy. We often have physicians, elder estate attorneys, and other professional join us for a Q and A session.

For more information and to complete the required intake interview, contact Paula Wolfson, Avenidas Care Partners Manager and group facilitator, at (650) 289-5438.


This program is partially or fully funded by Sourcewise Community Resource Solutions (logo)
Thanks to Sourcewise for their support of Avenidas Care Partners.

Consultations & Counseling

Avenidas Care Partners staff offer consultations, pro-active planning and crisis intervention to help clients navigate complex issues related to changes in one’s functional and cognitive abilities.

Our services include family mediation, in-home geriatric care assessments, referrals and assistance navigating complex discharge planning from hospitals and nursing homes. We also offer private counseling for family caregivers in need of support for stress management and respite.

We provide strategies and resources for helping older adults relocating to this area or out of area: we can help you locate movers and professionals to help you downsize. And if you are relocating to this area we will help orient you to services and community activities. We provide dementia care coaching to help caregivers develop compassionate communication techniques, resilience and patience.

Consultation fees

Avenidas Village & Avenidas members: $120/hour; Non-members: $140/hour.

Call Paula Wolfson, LCSW, Manager of Avenidas Care Partners at (650) 289-5438 to schedule an appointment for a consultation, geriatric care assessment and for guidance resolving complex health care issues.


I can’t thank you enough for your invaluable help — for your guidance, for the conference, for alerting me to the immediacy of my husband’s memory loss  and for calling me in so quickly. It feels like an enormous burden has been lifted off my shoulders.

Sharon 

Our family is now on the same page regarding the help we want to get for our Mom, thanks to the family consultation we had at Avenidas!

Jackie Welch

Care Partners Resources

Guide to Bringing Family Together for Mediation

Diagnosed with Dementia? Compassion & Choices Provides New Online Tools

Operation PPE: Donate or Request Personal Protection Equipment

New Community Partnership

Your Choices If You Get COVID-19

Guidelines for Families of Older Adults During the Pandemic

Guidelines for End of Life Care in the Home During the Pandemic

More Resources for Caregivers

Do You Need a Crisis Intervention?

Addressing Questions Family Caregivers Have During Uncertainty

Mental Health Resources

Resources for Caregivers

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Updates from Avenidas Care Partners

Mercury News Mentions RKC and Care Partners

October 18, 2021

Features Rose Kleiner Center participant Maura Nicho and quotes Paula Wolfson on the effects of the pandemic on long-term care.

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Care Forum in Daily Post’s “Talk of the Town”

September 13, 2021

Kristina Lugo and Annie rock their day-glo Day-Caring T-shirts in this Talk of the Town announcement about the Grand Reopening of the Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center.

Read Post » about Care Forum in Daily Post’s “Talk of the Town”

PA Weekly Features Tips for Caregivers, Care Forum Schedule

April 2, 2021

Palo Alto Weekly spotlights Avenidas’s Care Forum series, April events, and Spring Classes.

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