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Wednesday, November 14,2018
Freeman honored with Lifetime Achievement award
By Jeff Gill
DCN Regional Staff
Decades ago, Pat
Freeman balked when she
was first asked by her
boss to move from a job
working with youth to
one focused on aging.
But then, “I started
thinking about how I was
raised and how important
my grandparents were,”
she said.
Freeman hesitated no
more, instead embarking
on a career in aging ser
vices that has lasted 42
years, the last 21 as head
of the Legacy Link Area
Agency on Aging, which
opened in Gainesville
but has been based the
past few years at 4080
Mundy Mill Road in
Oakwood.
She was recognized for
her service Nov. 7, by the
Legacy Link board at the
agency’s Thanksgiving
luncheon. She received a
Lifetime Achievement
Award in appreciation for
her “visionary guidance
and outstanding leader
ship.”
“Pat has had a tremen
dous impact on seniors in
Gainesville-Hall County
and throughout North
Georgia,” agency spokes
man Don Colombero
said.
“It was a nice surprise,”
Freeman said of the
award, in an interview
after the luncheon.
The Missouri native
began her advocacy work
when aging services were
handled by the Georgia
Mountains Regional
Commission. Wanting a
health services compo
nent the program didn’t
offer under GMRC, she
created the nonprofit
Legacy Link in 1997.
Legacy Link handles
case management state
wide for two different
Medicaid programs.
With a caseload of
about 1,300 people, “we
work with families to
help figure out services to
come into the homes (of
older residents) and keep
them out of nursing
homes,” Freeman said.
Legacy Link primarily
operates in a 13-county
area, including Hall,
offering a wide variety of
programs and services for
older residents, including
employment and training
for those continuing to
work, wellness and vol
unteer service programs.
Over the years, “I’ve
done grant applications
and, as other things have
become available through
the state government, we
would apply for it,”
Freeman said. “When
you’re successful and
doing a good job, people
come to you and say,
‘You’re doing good on
this. Why don’t you try
this?”’
As result of expanding
programs, the agency has
grown from five workers
to 123 over the years, she
said.
At 79, Freeman has
decided to cut back some
on her work.
“I’m going to go part-
time in a few weeks,” she
said.
As far as full retire
ment, “I don’t know
when that will be, but
sometime.”
And considering her
agency’s function and
her own age, she
quipped, “I gotta get it
right for when I need it,
huh?”
Austin Steele DCN Regional Staff
Pat Freeman, founder of Legacy Link, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement
Award by Legacy Link's board on Wednesday, Nov. 7.
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DCN Regional Staff
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