Local conditions
| Probate court | Windham Probate Division, 30 Putney Road, 2nd Floor in Brattleboro |
|---|---|
| Average hospital distance | 8.6 miles |
| Towns near a hospital | 8.7% |
| Transit stops | 203 |
| CMS-certified homes | 3 |
| Licensed facilities | 10 |
| Nursing homes | 3 |
- Of the licensed long-term-care facilities in Windham County, 1 is state-designated for dementia or memory care.
How Windham compares next door
Windham County's hospital distances run from 2 miles in Townshend to 16 miles in Whitingham, with 8.7% of its 23 towns overall inside the 15-minute band — a narrower spread than Bennington County's 1-to-24-mile range just to the west. Windham's 8 licensed senior-living settings include 3 Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes, concentrated in Brattleboro, the only Windham County town covered on this site.
Senior care in Windham County
Wilmington sits on VT 9, the Molly Stark Trail, a separate east-west corridor from the north-south VT 30 route through Putney and Rockingham, and the two rarely serve the same caregiver route.
Bellows Falls, on the Connecticut River in Rockingham, is reached by I-91 rather than the VT 30 corridor that serves Putney and points north.
Senior centers and the Moover in Windham County
Senior Solutions is the area agency on aging designated for southeastern Vermont.
The Brattleboro Senior Center is in the Gibson Aiken Building at 207 Main Street, and Brattleboro Senior Meals serves noon meals there, with Meals on Wheels delivered five days a week; the centre lists classes from oil painting and watercolour to tai chi, country line dancing, pickleball, a writing group and bridge.
The Bellows Falls Area Senior Center is a nonprofit for people 50 and over in Rockingham, Westminster, Grafton and Athens, and in Walpole, New Hampshire.
The Moover is the region's fare-free public transit provider, serving Windham and southern Windsor counties, with some free door-to-door transportation for riders 60 and over and for people with ADA-defined disabilities.
Eligible riders must be 60 or over or have an ADA-defined disability, and free reserved rides within the town limits of Windsor and Springfield run weekdays from 6 am to 6 pm For anyone with a disability who lives within three-quarters of a mile of the Red or White line in Brattleboro, the bus can deviate from its route.
Hospitals and home health in the southeast
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is the county's main hospital, and Grace Cottage Hospital in Townshend is the community hospital for the West River Valley.
The VNA and Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire, based in White River Junction, is the home health and hospice agency for southeastern Vermont and parts of New Hampshire.
Windham County's licensed settings are concentrated in Brattleboro, with two nursing homes a few blocks from the hospital, and in Townshend, Vernon, Bellows Falls and Westminster; a household in the hill towns should ask early how a relative would get to a specialist in Brattleboro.
Brattleboro Senior Meals and the Gibson Aiken Building
Brattleboro Senior Meals is a private nonprofit that gives people over 60 in the Brattleboro area a nutritious daily meal.
Congregate dining is at the Brattleboro Senior Center in the Gibson Aiken Building, 207 Main Street, and its Meals on Wheels service delivers to Brattleboro, West Brattleboro, Vernon, Guilford and Dummerston, and its number is 802-257-1236.
Outside that delivery area, a Windham County household turns to Senior Solutions in Springfield for community meals and Meals on Wheels, on 802-465-4293.
Its helpline for other questions is 866-673-8376, and its Springfield office is at 56 Main Street, Suite 202.