These services are our core services; however, a variety of other programs may be added by state or legislative mandate.

Information & Referral: Provides information about available community resources, assistance with referrals to those resources and advocacy by trained care managers.

Assessment: Provides evaluation of those persons in need of AAA in home community services. Develops care plans to meet needs.

Pre-Admission Assessment: Provides evaluation of applicants seeking public funding for nursing home, personal care facility, or domiciliary care placement. In-home support services may be offered as an alternative to placement where appropriate.

Care Management: Provides ongoing casework intervention to ensure quality service delivery and to help maintain older persons in the community.

Family Caregiver Support: Provides limited financial relief to caregivers for expenses incurred while caring for an individual within their home; this may include assistance with the cost of respite services, medical equipment and supplies, and home modifications.

Day Care: Provides socialization and specialized activities in a supervised small group setting for disabled adults, including those with Alzheimer-type symptoms.

Personal Care: Provides assistance with personal hygiene activities for homebound individuals. Activities may include assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, transferring and feeding.

Home Delivered Meals: Provides frozen nutritious meals and supplemental food items, delivered once a week to homebound individuals who need assistance with food preparation and have no one available to provide that assistance. Special diet meals are available.

Home Support/Environmental Modifications (Chore Service): Provides a variety of in-home support services such as heavy cleaning, minor carpentry, plumbing, and electrical repairs, modifying homes to accommodate disabilities.

Friendly Visiting and Telephone Reassurance: Provides a trained volunteer to visit or phone lonely or isolated older persons on a regular basis.

Emergency Response: Provides emergency response machines to consumers who are prone to medical emergencies and falls, and are isolated, having no one to check on them.

Housing Assistance: Provides older individuals with assistance in locating and securing adequate housing, and assistance with matters relating to landlords, moving, utilities and other housing concerns.

Legal Assistance: Provides assistance, consultation, and direct representation with civil legal concerns such as Social Security Disability, wills, advanced directives, and consumer issues.

Medical Supplies: Provides medical supplies to consumers who have limited financial resources and do not qualify for insurance reimbursement.

Protective Services: Provides for the investigation of reports of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and abandonment of elderly consumers in the community as well as in facilities. The focus of this program is to reduce the risk to the older adult by providing a variety of services and legal interventions.

Ombudsman Service: Provides impartial evaluation and assistance in resolving complaints regarding the quality of care provided by long term care facilities and agencies including nursing homes, personal care homes and home health agencies.

Domiciliary Care: Provides placement in certified family homes for adults who cannot live alone and need some supervision with activities of daily living

Guardianship: Provides legal intervention and casework support to a limited number of incapacitated individuals who have no one to act on their behalf.

Consumer Reimbursement: Provides limited financial assistance to help defray the cost of care for individuals who cannot be served through the customary agency service delivery system.

Bridge: Provides in-home services as an alternative to institutional care for those individuals over the age of 60 who would be eligible for the PDA Waiver program, but are ineligible due to excess resources (assets).

Waiver: Provides in-home services as an alternative to institutional care for those individuals over the age of 60 who are medically eligible for nursing home care and are financially eligible for Medical Assistance.

Cost Sharing: May be required for certain agency-funded services, in conformance with Pennsylvania Department of Aging rules and regulations. Cost sharing, along with voluntary contributions, helps us to continue to provide a wide range of services to our older consumers.