The mission of the Boston Area Agency on Aging is to enhance the quality of life for Boston's senior citizens through planning, coordinating, and monitoring the delivery of services to Boston seniors in an efficient and effective manner.
These activities are provided in conjunction with various Federal, State, and City agencies, along with neighborhood service providers, senior citizen groups, and the Mayor's Advisory Council. The Commission, as Boston's Area Agency on Aging and Council On Aging, promotes the active involvement of seniors in the life and health of their neighborhoods.
Our priority remains to promote optimal functioning and to prevent premature or inappropriate institutionalization of elders in Boston. Older American Act funding, distributed by the Executive Office of Elder Affairs, assists the City of Boston in our efforts to better serve the needs of our citizens. Through planning and development, allocation of Title III funds and advocacy we are able to provide quality services to seniors in Boston. Our role as the Area Agency on Aging is to monitor and evaluate these services to ensure both the quality and necessity of such services.
Older American Act funding enables the Commission to provide financial and programmatic support to non-profit agencies in the flowing areas of service:
- Title III-B Support Services
- Title III-C
- Title III-D Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Title III-E Caregiver Support Services
- Ombudsman Program
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1. ABCD Mattapan Family Service Center
535 River Street, Mattapan, MA 02126
Program Name: Senior Project
Contact: Janet Spence (617) 298-2045
This is a senior center providing utility assistance, exercise and health maintenance, day trips, senior outreach, monthly brown bag grocery distribution to low-income seniors, informational meetings, workshops and community forums.
2. ABCD Parker Hill/Fenway Neighborhood Service Center
714 Parker Street, Roxbury, MA 02120-3003
Program Name: Parker Hill/Fenway Senior Center
Contact: Ana Reyes(617)445-6000x223
This is a senior center, which provides outreach to seniors at risk, information and referral services, exercise and physical fitness, wellness phone calls and home/hospital visits, recreation, health education, health screenings, advocacy and translation for Spanish-speaking elders, and some intergenerational collaboration.
3.BostonMedicalCenter
1 Medical Center Place,Boston,MA02118
Program Name: Elders Living at Home
Contact: Eileen O'Brien(617)638-6148
This program provides outreach and information and referral to homeless and at-risk seniors. The program provides comprehensive geriatric assessment services and emergency, temporary and transitional housing placement.
4. Caritas Good Samaritan Hospice
310 Allston Street,Brighton,MA02135
Program Name: Senior Outreach/Bereavement Project
Contact: Katherine Harding(617)566-6242
This program provides outreach to and counseling, support groups and health education for terminally ill seniors and their caregivers.
5. Chinese Golden Age Center
75 Kneeland Street, Suite 204,Boston, MA 02111
Program Name: Asian Drop-In Program
Contact: Megan Cheung(617)357-0226
This program serves economically and linguistically disadvantaged Chinese-speaking elders. It provides information and referral, letter writing, outreach, telephone reassurance and translation services.
6. Developmental Evaluation and Adjustment Facilities (DEAF), Inc.
215 Brighton Avenue,Allston,MA02134
Program Name: Elder Services Independent Living Program
Contact: Carol Hilbinger(617)254-4041
This program serves deaf, deaf and blind, hard of hearing, and late deafened seniors in Boston. It provides material aid, outreach, and information and assistance.
7. East Boston Social Center
68 Central Square, East Boston, MA 02128
Program Name: Senior Place
Contact: Gloria Devine(617)569-3221
Services include: exercise/physical fitness, health education and screenings, advocacy, consumer protection services, crime prevention services, wellness, companionship, friendly visit, volunteer opportunities, counseling, and financial management assistance.
8. ESAC
3313 Washington Street,Jamaica Plain,MA02130
Program Name: Senior Home Repair
Contact: Thomas P. Lynch(617)524-4820
This program provides, home repair assistance and referral services to seniors inBoston.
9. Ethos
555 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Program Name: Volunteer Services
Contact: Lynn Santiago-Calling(617)522-6700
Volunteers are recruited from various ethnic groups to provide companion/respite, medical escorts, telephone reassurance, shopping assistance/other services and outreach for people who would not otherwise have access to home care services.
10. Fenway Community Development Corporation
73 Hemenway Street,Boston,MA02115
Program Name:PeterboroughSeniorCenter
Contact: Lisa Rein-Woisin(617)536-7154
Services include: recreation, wellness, education, and information & assistance
11. GreaterBostonGuild for the Blind
1980 Centre Street, WestRoxbury,MA02132
Program Name:SightCare Community Education
Contact: Maria Venuto(617)323-5111
The purpose of this program isto educate seniors about vision and eye health, vision loss prevention measures, and the range of techniques, devices, and rehabilitation services available to help those with vision impairment to maximize vision, independence, and safety. Services include: health education, outreach, and information and assistance.
12. Greater Boston Legal Services
197 Friend Street,Boston,MA02114
Program Name: Greater Boston Elderly Legal Services
Contact: Wynn Gerhard(617)371-1234
This program provides legal assistance, outreach and information and assistance to elders inBoston.
13. HEARTH
1640 Washington Street,Boston,MA02118
Program Name: Recreation and Socialization
Contact: Edward Bordas(617)450-0335
The program aims to provide recreation to seniors living in transitional programs.
14. Inquilinos Boriques en Accion (IBA)
100 W. Dedham St.,Boston,MA02118
Program Name: Elder Support
Contact: Anita Mercado(617)927-1707
The Elder Program provides advocacy, outreach, recreation, translation, and interpretation for low-income Latinos.
15. John F. Kennedy Service Center
27 Winthrop Street, Charlestown, MA 02129
Program Name: Senior Support Services
Contact Person: Eleanor Pansar
(617)241-8866ext. 1114
Transportation for seniors food shopping, banking, doctor visits and some other purposes as needed; translation services, and gentle exercises. Outreach to isolated seniors; some services provided at1010 Ferrin Street.
E-mail: epansar@kennedycenter.org
16. Kit Clark Senior Services, Inc.
1500 Dorchester Avenue,Dorchester,MA02122
Program Name: Minority Outreach
Contact: Anita Nasra(617)825-5000
The Minority Outreach Program provides counseling, outreach, interpretation and support groups for Haitian,CapeVerdeanand Vietnamese seniors.
17. La Alianza Hispana
63 Parker Hill Avenue, Boston, MA 02120
Program Name: Aliancianos Unidos-Senior Center
Contact: Marisol Amaya(617)232-0634
Aliancianos Unidos provides assisted transportation, exercise and physical fitness, health education, information and assistance, interpreting, recreation, support group, translation and outreach to low-income Latinos lacking information, resources or other basic services.
18.LaboureCenter
275 West Broadway,South Boston,MA02127
Program Name: Elder Social Services/In-Home Counseling
Contact: Ellen Widen(617)464-8580
The Elder Service/In-Home Counseling Program provides geriatric assessment, counseling and outreach.
19.MassachusettsAssociation of Older Americans
19 Temple Place, 4th Floor,Boston,MA02111
Program Name: Advocacy Works
Contact: Ann Hartstein(617)426-0804
This provides outreach, advocacy, newsletter distribution, and information and assistance for elders inBoston, particularly low-income and minority elders.
20. MATCH-UP Interfaith Volunteers
105 Chauncy St.,Boston,MA02108
Program Name: Visiting Services & Medical Escort/Short-Term Assistance
Contact: Janet Seckel-Cerrotti(617)482-1510
This program provides assisted transportation, companionship, friendly visit and outreach to elders inBoston.
21. Nuestra Communidad Development Corporation
56 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
Program Name: Housing Resource Services
Contact: C. Foster Bates(617)989-0894
This program provides outreach, information and assistance, advocacy and placement services to homeless elders, at-risk elders and grandparents raising grandchildren.
22. SouthBostonNeighborhood House
136 H Street, SouthBoston, MA 02127
Program Name:SouthBostonNeighborhoodHouseSeniorCenter
Contact: Carole Sullivan(617)269-2310
The Senior Center provides education, recreation, outreach, and information and assistance.
23. United South End Settlements
566 Columbus Avenue,Boston,MA02118
Program Name: Senior Services
Contact: Kyle Johnson(617)375-8146
This program provides outreach, exercise, recreation, and information and assistance to elders inBoston.
24. Upham’sCornerHealthCenter
500 Columbia Road,Dorchester,MA02125
Program Name: Boston Coalition for Adult Immunization
Contact: Elaine Rowe(617)825-9839
This program provides immunizations, including flu and pneumonia shots, to at-risk elders inBoston
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| Title III-B (Ombudsman) |
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1. Ethos
555 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Program Name: Ethos/Boston Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
Contact: Marietta McCarthy (617) 522-6700
Provides advocacy for long term care residents through one-on-one or group visits in long term care facilities in Boston.
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1. Ethos
555 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Program Name: Title III-C Nutrition Project Area A
Contact: Linda Costarides(617)522-6700
Provides home delivered meals and congregate meals sites for elders in Allston-Brighton, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Roslindale and West Roxbury.
2. Greater Chinese Golden Age Center
25 Stuart Street, 5/F,Boston,MA02116
Contact: Arthur Chi(617)423-7560
Provides home delivered Chinese meals and congregate Chinese meals for Chinese elders inBoston.
3. Kit Clark Senior Services
1500 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02122
Program Name: Title III-C Project Area B
Contact: Leslie Darcy(617)825-5000
Provides home delivered meals and congregate meals sites for elders in Back Bay-Beacon Hill-Fenway, Charlestown, Chinatown, Dorchester, East Boston, North End, Roxbury, South Boston, and South End.
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1. ABCD
178 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02111
Program Name: Project Healthy Exercise Plus
Contact: Mary Anne Hardenbergh (617) 348-6233
This program provides exercise and physical fitness, health education, volunteer development, supervision and outreach.
2. Boston Community Care
59 Townsend Street
Boston, MA 02119
Program Name: Medication Education and Awareness Workshops
Contact Person: Stephen Elkin, M.S.W
(617)989-8250; fax (617)989-8349
The purpose of the workshops is to educate the seniors about the medications that have been prescribed to them by their physicians, help them use them safely, learn cost effective strategies to stretch their medication dollar and feel comfortable in the medication use.
E-mail: selkin@jmhrc.com
3. Chinese Golden Age Center
25 Stuart Street, 5/F, Boston, MA 02111
Program Name: Asian Health Focus
Contact: Lili Mei (617) 789-4289; Robbie Rosenberg (617) 426-1628
The program provides exercise, health education, outreach and wellness to Chinese-speaking Asian elders.
4. Ethos
555 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Program Name: Nutrition Risk Assessment
Contact: Linda Costarides (617) 522-6700
This program provides nutrition screening, nutrition counseling, nutrition education to homemakers, nutrition education to elders, and outreach.
5. Kit Clark Senior Services
1500 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02122
Program Name: Memory Loss
Contact: Donna Allen (617) 825-5000
Program educates people about Alzheimer's Disease, counsels people with Alzheimer's Disease and their caregivers and leads monthly support groups.
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1. Boston Senior Home Care
110 Chauncy Street,Boston,MA02111
Program Name: Family Caregiver Program
Contact: Joanne McMahan(617)303-8307
This program provides respite care, counseling, support groups, and training to caregivers.
http://www.bostonseniorhomecare.org/
2. CentralBostonElder Services
2315 Washington Street,Boston,MA02119
Program Name: Family Caregiver Program
Contact: Catherine Hardaway(617)277-7416
This program provides counseling, supports, groups, respite care, and education to caregivers.
2.Caregiver Alliance
Caregiver Alliance of Suffolk County
2315 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02119
(617)277-7416
Mission is to provide support, information and services to diverse generations of caregivers while promoting family wellbeing, problem solving and planning.
3.LGBT Aging Project
555 Amory Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617)522-6700
LGBT Aging Project is an organization working to guarantee equal services for LGBT elders and caregivers.
4.Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children
157 Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Program Name: KINnections Program
Contact: Charity Bell(617)983-5800; fax:(617)983-5840
The KINnections Program provides support groups, respite services, information and referral, and workshops for grandparents raising grandchildren.
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