About AAAs and Aging Services for Homeless Services Systems

AAAs are the local leaders on aging, helping older adults and people with disabilities live with optimal health, well-being, independence and dignity in their homes and communities. Serving every community in the United States, they develop, coordinate and deliver a wide range of home and community-based services that most of us will need at some point during our lives to age in place. These include information and referral, care management, nutrition programs, chore and/or personal care services, caregiver supports, transportation and health and wellness programs. Many AAAs provide housing and homelessness services, with 20 percent operating a homelessness intervention and/or prevention program, and 81 percent providing one or more programs or services related to housing and/or homelessness.

The resources below can help those unfamiliar with AAAs learn more about them and their housing and homelessness programs.

About AAAs
- Local Leaders in Aging Well at Home is a brief overview of all the services a AAA engages in.
- The Eldercare Locator is a quick and easy way to find your local AAA!
- Discover How AAAs Support You and see the impact they are already making within your communities!
- Supporting Older Americans’ Basic Needs: Health Care, Income, Housing and Food is a deeper dive on the services needed to ensure our basic needs are met as we age.
AAAs and Housing
- Fast Facts: AAA Housing and Homelessness Programs and Partnerships outlines the pressing housing challenges facing older adults, and what AAAs are doing.
- Averting Evictions: How an Area Agency on Aging in Massachusetts Offers Medicaid-Funded Housing Supports shows how a AAA (AgeSpan) leveraged its health care–community care partnerships to address housing stability.
- Supportive Housing Services Tailored to Older Adults in Eastern Washington details how a AAA used its capabilities as a Medicaid provider to help older adults remain or become stably housed.
  - Accelerating Housing and Services Partnerships to Advance Housing Stability: Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) (webinar) focuses on its partnership with the local housing authority to help deliver Medicaid-funded supportive housing services.
- Innovations from the Field: AAA Housing and Homelessness Programs is a sampling of several case studies of AAAs taking steps to help older adults address their housing issues in unique and creative ways.
- More examples of housing as it relates to older adults here.

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