About The Glens Falls Home, Inc.
Background & Accomplishments
The original "Glens Falls Home" on Warren Street
Caring for the elderly is not a recent concern. The Glens Falls Home, Inc. was incorporated in 1898 to provide residential services for aging women, and for over 100 years the organization operated a home for aged women on Warren Street in the City of Glens Falls.
After a century of providing extraordinary care and comfort, in a home-like setting, the Home bowed to the ever-shifting needs and requirements of a growing elderly population and the challenges of updating the facility, and so closed its doors in 1999. The residence was sold in 2002. (You can read more about the founding of the original Glens Falls Home facility in our History section.)
For many years, the Board of Directors had been concerned about redefining the goals of the organization to better meet the needs of the elderly population in our area. While the original Glens Falls Home was a state-of-the-art facility when it was built 100 years ago, changing times have brought changing expectations.
Since that time, under the guidance of the Board, the Glens Falls Home, Inc. has evolved into a not-for-profit foundation whose mission is to create opportunities for seniors in the community. We have done this by:
- partnering in the development and operation of The Glen at Hiland Meadows community in Queensbury;
- supporting the Homeward Bound program of Hudson Headwaters Health Network;
- working with RSVP to connect senior volunteers with neighbors in need; and
- sponsoring other activities and programs designed to provide essential services for the elderly throughout the greater Glens Falls area.
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Vision & Purpose
As a private, not-for-profit foundation, The Glens Falls Home, Inc. fulfills its corporate purpose to promote and support the quality of life for all senior persons in our community through:
- Collaboration with other individuals, organizations, and institutions to establish a forum to act as a source of information to meet the needs of the community's aging population.
- Consultation with other organizations to determine appropriate content and methods for the delivery of continuing education seminars to address the needs of seniors.
- Presentation of quality training and continuing education seminars to address the needs of the senior population for those persons employed by, or involved with, the provision of services to our communities' seniors.
“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye,
to restore it, and to render it more fit
for its prime function of looking forward.”
— Margaret Fairless Barber
