{"id":807092,"date":"2020-05-04T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=382707"},"modified":"2020-05-04T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T19:30:00","slug":"state-offers-free-dental-services-to-low-income-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/state-offers-free-dental-services-to-low-income-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"State offers free dental services to low-income seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Older adults who cannot afford dental care have another option with the Colorado Gerontological Society\u2019s program. <\/p>\n<p>The Low Income Senior Dental Program offers exams, X-rays, fillings, extractions, full and partial dentures and relines, according to a news release from the society. The program is available to anyone 60 and older who is economically disadvantaged. <\/p>\n<p>The program is offered only to people who do not have dental insurance in any other form, including Medicare and Medicaid. It is funded by a grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/pacific\/hcpf\/colorado-dental-health-care-program-low-income-seniors\">Colorado Department of Health Care and Policy Financing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Services are offered in Summit County, Denver and Eagle County as well as a number of other areas throughout the state. <\/p>\n<p>To enroll in the program, people who are eligible can call 303-333-3482 or download the application online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senioranswers.org\/programs\/dental-grants\/\">SeniorAnswers.org\/programs\/dental-grants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/state-offers-free-dental-services-to-low-income-seniors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older adults who cannot afford dental care have another option with the Colorado Gerontological Society\u2019s program. The Low Income Senior Dental Program offers exams, X-rays, fillings, extractions, full and partial dentures and relines, according to a news release from the society. The program is available to anyone 60 and older who is economically disadvantaged. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 02:37:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}