Area Agency On Aging
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
Title III Grantee Programs for FY 2006 (Arranged by Type)
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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) 445-6000 x223
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. ABCD, Inc.
178 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02111
Program Name: Project Healthy Plus
Contact: Mary Ann Hardenbergh (617) 348-6244
This program provides health education programs in the neighborhoods, assists elders to organize around health advocacy issues and outreach to elders.
4. Nuestra Communidad
56 Warren Street, Boston, MA 02119
Program Name: Housing Resource Services Program
Contact: Foster Bates (617) 427-3599; direct: (617) 989-0894
This program provides outreach, information and assistance, advocacy and placement services to homeless elders, at-risk elders and grandparents raising grandchildren.
5. Boston Medical Center
1 Medical Center Place, Boston, MA 02118
Program Name: Elders Living at Home
Contact: Joseph Mazzone ED, or Eileen O'Brien(617) 638-6139
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.
6. Chinese Golden Age Center
25 Stuart Street, 5/F, Boston, MA 02111
Program Name: Asian Drop-In Program
Contact: Dora Wong (617) 423-7560; Roberta Greenbaum (617) 426-1628
The program serves economically and linguistically disadvantaged Chinese-speaking elders. It provides information and referral, letter writing, outreach, telephone reassurance and translation services.
7. Committee to End Elder Homelessness
1640 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02118
Program Name: Homeless and At Risk Outreach
Contact: Maureen Ryan, Jane Erikson (617) 369-1562
The program targets Boston elders who are homeless and living in adult shelter or transitional programs. It provides information and assistance, case management, placement services, and outreach.
8. East Boston Social Center
68 Central Square, East Boston, MA 02128
Program Name: Senior Place
Contact: Sue Palma (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.
9. ESAC
3313 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Program Name: Senior Homeowner Foreclosure Prevention and Court Advocacy Project
Contact: Bob Pulster (617) 524-2555
This program provides, home repair assistance and referral services to seniors in Boston.
10. Ethos
555 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Program Name: Volunteer Services
Contact: Lynn Santiago-Calling (617) 522-6700
Volunteer 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.
11. Caritas Good Samaritan Hospice
310 Allston Street, Brighton, MA 02135
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.
12. Greater Boston Guild for the Blind
1980 Centre Street, PO Box 218, West Roxbury, MA 02132
Program Name: LIVE (Life Integration Skills for Visually Impaired Elders)
Contact: Annemarie Mark O'Hearn (617) 323-5111
13. Greater Boston Legal Services
197 Friend Street, Boston, MA 02114
Program Name: Greater Boston Elderly Legal Services
Contact: Wynn Gerhard (617) 603-1577
This program provides legal assistance, outreach and information and assistance to elders in Boston.
14. Inquilinos Boriques en Accion (IBA)
80 W. Dedham St., Boston, MA 02118
Program Name: Elders Program
Contact: Zahida Vides (617) 399-1958
The Elder Program provides home visits, advocacy, outreach, translation, and interpretation for low-income Latinos.
15. John F. Kennedy Service Center
27 Winthrop Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
Program Name: Senior Support Service Program
Contact Person: Eleanor Pansar
(617) 241-8866 ext. 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 at 1010 Ferrin Street.
E-mail: epansar@kennedycenter.org
16. Kit Clark Senior Services Minority OutReach
1500 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02122
Program Name: Minority Outreach
Contact: Alfred Geneus, Marie Desir, Connie Dos Santos, Kim Hall, Lan Chi Pham, (617) 825-5000
The Minority Outreach Program provides information and assistance, outreach and support groups for Haitian, Cape Verdean and Vietnamese seniors.
17. VITA Volunteer Program
1500 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02122
Program Name: VITA: Volunteer
Contact: Betty Cikacz (617) 825-5000
The VITA Program provides one-on-one companionship, escorting, and other help for seniors in Dorchester.
18. La Alianza Hispana
409 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
Program Name: Aliancianos Unidos-Senior Center
Contact: Marisol Anaya (617) 427-7175 x240
Aliancianos Unidos provides assisted transportation, exercise and physical fitness, health education, information and assistance, interpreting, nutrition information, recreation, support group, translation and outreach to low-income Latinos lacking information, resources or other basic services.
19. Laboure Center/B
275 W. Broadway Street, South Boston, MA 02127
Program Name: Elder Social Services/In-Home Counseling
Contact: Therese Hetzel (617) 268-9670
The Elder Service/In-Home Counseling Program provides assessment, counseling and outreach.
20. MAB Community Services
23A Elm Street, Watertown, MA 02472
Program Name: Boston Visually Impaired Elders Project
Contact: KaeAnn Rausch (617) 926-5355
Provides geriatric assessment, outreach, friendly visits, telephone reassurance, support groups, information and assistance, and other supportive services to elders in Boston with an emphasis on bi-lingual and multicultural seniors.
21. Massachusetts Association of Older Americans
105 Chauncey Street, 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02111
Program Name: Seniors Together for Effective Power
Contact: Ann Hartstein (617) 426-0804
The Seniors Together for Effective Power Program provides outreach, advocacy, and newsletter distribution for elders in Boston, particularly low-income and minority elders.
22. MATCH-UP Interfaith Volunteers
105 Chauncy St., Boston, MA 02108
Program Name: Medical Escort
Contact: Janet Seckel-Cerrotti (617) 482-1510
The Medical Escort Program provides assisted transportation and educational workshops to elders in Boston.
23. MATCH-UP Interfaith Volunteers
105 Chauncy St., Boston, MA 02108
Program Name: Friendly Visiting Program
Contact: Janet Seckel-Cerrotti (617) 482-1510
The Friendly Visiting Program provides friendly visiting and telephone reassurance to elders in Boston.
24. New England Homes for the Deaf
154 Water Street, Danvers, MA 01923
Program Name: Education and Community Services Program
Contact: Judith Good (978) 774-0445
Program provides recreation (deaf senior center), information and referral, interpreting, education/training and advocacy/representation to deaf elders.
25. South Boston Neighborhood House
136 H Street, South Boston, MA 02127
Program Name: South Boston Neighborhood House Jet Set Senior Center
Contact: Carole Sullivan (617) 269-2310
The Senior Center provides recreation, information and assistance.
26. United South End Settlements
566 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02118-1195
Program Name: Senior Resource Project
Contact: Maria DaRosa (617) 536-8610
This program provides advocacy, telephone reassurance, health education, volunteer development, volunteer opportunity and outreach.
27. Uphams Corner Health Committee, Inc.
500 Columbia Road, Dorchester, Ma 02125
Program Name: In Home Health and Social Services
Contact: Nancy Bifano (617) 825-9206
The program provides the following services to elders in Boston: advocacy, counseling, geriatric assessment, information and assistance, interpreting, letter writing, placement services, telephone reassurance, and translation.
28. Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association
29 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111
Program Name: Volunteer Lawyers for the Elderly
Contact: Martha Williams (617) 423-0648
This program provides legal assistance and outreach, including legal education seminars.
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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, MA 02116
Contact: Arthur Chi (617) 423-7560
Provides home delivered Chinese meals and congregate Chinese meals for Chinese elders in Boston.
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.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.
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.
©2007 The City of Boston