Area Agencies on Aging in Pittsburgh
Jewish Association on Aging (JAA)
200 JHF Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
412-420-4000
www.jaapgh.org
— JAA provides services that keep seniors active, independent, and connected to the community. Founded in 1993, JAA provides a comprehensive network of senior care services to older adults in Greater Pittsburgh, regardless of religious affiliation.
Jewish Family & Children's Service
5743 Bartlett Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
412-422-0400
www.jfcspgh.org
— JF&CS licensed social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists who specialize in geriatrics provide a continuum of services for older adults and their families. Services including family consultations, care management, caregiver network, counseling, support groups, Holocaust Survivors program, ElderAlert emergency response system. All of this is accessible through AgeWell Pittsburgh, an information and referral line.
Ursuline Senior Services
4749 Baum Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-683-0400, or toll free at 1-888-881-4749
www.ursulineseniorservices.org
— Providing the senior population with distinctive human services programs including: community based Options Care Management Program, guardianship services; protective services, person and/or estate special needs trust, and AARP Money Management Program.
West Penn Internal Medicine Associates
4815 Liberty Ave., Ste. G 25
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-621-1566
www.wpahsprimarycare.org
— Our physicians provide comprehensive internal medicine, family medicine and geriatric care, evaluating and treating a range of medical problems.Special patient services include: Weight control; Geriatric care; Chronic disease care; Minor surgery; Comprehensive and routine physical examinations; House-call visits for patients with chronic physical conditions; Full laboratory services; Diagnostic testing such as EKGs, breathing tests, blood vessel testing, exercise stress testing, sigmoidoscopy, cystoscopy, echocardiograms and outpatient cardiac monitoring; EEG (brain-wave testing), EMG/NCV (electrical testing of muscles and nerves) and evoked potentials (electrical testing of brain stem and optic nerves)
Allegheny County Area Agency on Aging
800-344-4319 or 412-350-5460
— Through approximately eighty senior citizen centers throughout
Allegheny County, the Agency on Aging provides many services.
The Center for Healthy Aging (CHA)
A CDC Prevention Research Center • University of Pittsburgh • Graduate School of Public Health
412-624-3217 • www.healthyaging.pitt.edu
— CHA promotes healthy lifestyles and disease prevention. Free Community Health Ambassador classes focusing on the "10 Keys to Healthy Aging" empower adults to take ownership of their health.