Resource Guide For Seniors

Transportation

Life Ride

Helps seniors and people with disabilities access the world around them through care focused transportation services. Their driver-providers are all trained in Basic Life Support, defensive driving, and undergo background checks. Their services include regular sedan transports – with a driver that will help customer in and out of vehicle. And wheelchair accessible vans for customers that are wheelchair bound.

Serving: New Jersey

Access Link

Access Link: Services for Persons with Disabilities. Access Link is a public transportation service developed to comply with the paratransit regulations of the ADA and is for people with disabilities who are unable to use the local NJ TRANSIT fixed route bus service. In order to use Access Link, you must first apply for eligibility and reservations are required. Access Link service is comparable to the bus in that it is a curb to curb service, charges a fare and is available during the same days and hours as the regularly scheduled local fixed route bus service, including weekends and holidays. If there is NJ TRANSIT bus service available, Access Link service will be available. If there is no NJ TRANSIT bus service, Access Link will not be available.

Serving: New Jerseyy

Ambutrust Medical Transportation Service

Transportation which accommodates stretcher, wheelchair, or ambulatory. Staff of EMTs, RNs, Paramedics, and other medical professionals will take you to any medical appointment, as well as hospital discharge. Accept Medicare and most insurance. Gary Velardi, owner, 973-900-2506, gary@ambutrust.com Russell Stuart, Director of Operations, 973-943-7716, russell@ambutrust.com

Serving:  New Jersey

American Red Cross of Northern New Jersey

The American Red Cross of Northern New Jersey provides transportation services in Montclair and Glen Ridge. These services are available to ambulatory senior citizens who are residents of Montclair and Glen Ridge and provide transport to medical and dental appointments, physical therapy, and dialysis treatments.

Serving: Montclair, Glen Ridge

Bell Medical Transport

Bell Medical Transport specializes in regular stretcher transports, emergency/non-emergency ambulance transportation. They are a licensed Medicare, Medicaid and LogistiCare provider and accept most insurance. They also accept all forms of payment for private pay trips and offer discounts for all credit card payments.

Serving: Essex County

Essex County Special Transportation

The Essex County Special Transportation System is a valuable resource that provides senior citizens and handicapped residents with safe transportation to and from their medical appointments. This transportation System offers a curb to curb service. This service is free of charge to eligible patients. Hours of operation are Monday, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 am-4:00 pm. When scheduling an appointment please call at least 2 days in advance but no more than 2 weeks in advance. When calling for a pick up please have your appointment date, time and location ready. Also have the name of the doctor you will be seeing and their phone number. Essex County Special Transportation also offers shopping trips one day a week for certain areas. Shopping trips are scheduled on Wednesdays. For Fairfield, Essex Fells, Roseland, Verona, Cedar Grove and Caldwell they will take you to The Passaic Ave. ShopRite Plaza & area stores. For Montclair, Glen Ridge and Bloomfield they will take you to Lackawanna Plaza Pathmark and area stores.

Serving: Essex County

EZ RIDE Community Cars – Essex & Union County

The Community Cars program offers seniors curb-to-curb transportation from volunteers Monday to Friday 8 AM to 4 PM. Membership is $15 per year; fees are between .50 and $1 per mile. EZ RIDE Cars are marked with their logo.

Serving: Essex County, Union County

EZ RIDE Community Cars – Passaic County

The Community Cars program offers seniors curb-to-curb transportation from volunteers Monday to Friday 8 AM to 4 PM. Membership is $15 per year; fees are between .50 and $1 per mile. EZ RIDE Cars are marked with their logo.

Serving: Passaic County

GoGo Grandparent

GoGo Grandparent provides transportation to seniors. Pricing depends on location and travel mileage.

Serving: New Jersey

Good Taxi

Provides transportation. Ask for the senior discount when requesting for a ride.

Serving: New Jersey

Le Rubicon Taxi

Provides transportation. Ask for the senior discount when requesting for a ride.

Serving: New Jersey

LogistiCare Medical Transportation

LogistiCare provides transportation for patients on Medicaid. LogistiCare coordinates Non-emergency Transportation to covered medical services. LogistiCare Coordinates livery service (curb to curb), mobility assistance service (including wheelchair), and non-emergency ambulance services. Driver of livery vehicles will meet the client at the curb. Drivers of mobility assistance vehicles will assist clients into and out of buildings or residences.

Serving: New Jersey

Medical Transport of Verona

Will pick patient up and drop them off to medical appointments only. This is a self-pay service. Rates vary according to where the appointment is but the cost is usually between $5 – $15. They will only pick up in Verona and Cedar Grove Monday through Friday 9:00 am-2:30 pm.

Serving: Verona, Cedar Grove

M&M Taxi

Provides transportation. Ask for the senior discount when requesting for a ride.

Serving: New Jersey

Montclair Rehabilitation Organization

Will pick up and drop off patient to medical appointments only. This is a self-pay service. The cost is $30 round trip. They will pick up in Bloomfield, Cedar Grove, Glen Ridge, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, Verona and Montclair.

Serving: Bloomfield, Cedar Grove, Glen Ridge, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, Verona, Montclair

Pulse Medical Transportation

Medical transportation including wheelchair van, basic life support and advanced life support ambulance services

Serving: New Jersey

Ryde4Life

You can now use Ryde4Life for grocery shopping and medical visits free of charge, while the Montclair Senior Bus remains suspended due to COVID19. The only requirement is that you have a functioning cell phone which can receive calls when your ride arrives. EZRide will arrange and then monitor the rides provided by either Lyft or Uber. Service is available Monday through Friday 8AM – 8PM and Saturday 8AM – 5PM.

Serving: Essex County

The Caring Coach

The service is geared for the mobility challenged, handicapped, and others that need arm-in-arm, door-to-door assistance in getting where you need to go whether medical or concierge. The program does not provide wheelchair bound services.

Serving: New Jersey

Virgo Medical Transportation

Virgo Medical Transportation is an emergency rescue service located in East Orange, New Jersey, who provides ambulance or stretcher transportation. They accept various forms of payment including Medicare, insurance, or private pay.

Serving: New Jersey

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As a doctor who has devoted his medical career to caring for geriatric patients, let me tell you a story about a patient I knew.

Day after day, she sat alone in her apartment, half-tuned to the TV. Her children lived several states away. She could not drive. There were times when she didn’t speak to another human for days. Sometimes she went weeks without a hot meal. This lonely, isolated woman— and many others like her — broke my heart and are the reason why I decided in to form a non-profit in 2012 called Connections at Home.

Based upon my patients stories, I could see the need was dire to help these seniors and the need remains just as critical today.  Connections at Home New Jersey offers a dedicated team of social workers and specially adapted technology that  addresses food insecurity, housing instability and the devastating effects of social isolation, and has dramatically improved the lives of thousands of seniors and provided peace of mind to their  relatives and friends.

Dr. Thomas McCarrick