AAA’s partner with local service providers to deliver many direct services including:
Information and Referral/Assistance
Case management
Medical, Insurance, and Benefit Assistance
Navigating health insurance options
Navigation of benefits to help you maximize your benefits
Medicare Navigation – plan comparison
Medicaid applications
Medicaid waiver support
Light Housekeeping/Chores
Home Modification/Repairs
Minor Home Repair to help older adults stay safe (grab bars, ramps)
Transportation to Doctor visits and Grocery shopping
Telephone Reassurance – Friendly phone calls to check in with seniors
Tax Assistance
- Meals – Home Delivered Meals
- Congregate Meals (Senior Centers)
- Fall prevention classes
- Fitness & Exercise classes (Tai Chi, Drums Alive, Zumba, etc.)
- Chronic Disease Self-Management (classes on Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Arthritis, etc.)
- Caregiver Training & Education
- Caregiver Respite
- Caregiver Resource Network
- Advocacy for Seniors
- Protection from Elder Abuse
- Ombudsman Support for Residents in Long-Term Care Facilities
To learn more and access these services, find and contact your local AAA
What are AAAs?
- 90% of adults say they hope to stay in their homes for as long as possible
- By 2030, 1 in 5 Americans will be 65 or older (twice the number in 2000)
- This is a historic demographic shift
- By 2035, older adults will outnumber children under 18 for the first time ever in history!
- HCBS (home and community based services) cost a fraction of the cost of institutional care options like nursing homes, skilled care facilities
- AAAs play a critical role in ensuring HCBS options exist in every community
- AAAs represent the best of government – planning comes from the bottom up – from each community vs. from the fed government down
- The term “Area Agency on Aging” (“AAA”) is a generic term used by the federal government to refer to a nationwide network of nonprofits and public organizations that help seniors
- AAAs are public/private partnerships
- For every $1 of federal OAA investment, an additional $3.81 in local and private funding is leveraged.
- Each local AAA identifies an area plan based on input from consumers, service providers, and others in the community
- No one-size fits all about AAAs or the services they provide
- AAAs bring services to people where they live in their homes and communities
- Bringing services to people where they live, helps them save their own and government dollars.
- AAAs are a sensible approach from a financial and human perspective