AAA’s contract 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 and Congregate (Senior Centers)
- Fall prevention classes
- Fitness & Exercise classes (Tai Chi, Drums Alive, Zumba)
- Chronic Disease Self-Management (classes on Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Arthritis)
- Caregiver Training & Education
- Caregiver Respite
- Caregiver Resource Network
- Advocacy for Seniors
- Protection from Elder Abuse
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 $4 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