City: Nashville, TN

Category: Retirement

Telephone: (615) 862-8828

Address: 501 Union St., 6th Floor

Description: The Area Agency on Aging serves Davidson County as well as Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, Rutherford, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale, Williamson, and Wilson Counties. The agency plans for the provision of federal Older American Act services and state-funded services to persons 60 and older. It performs a wide range of activities related to advocacy, planning, coordination, interagency linkages, information sharing, brokering, monitoring, technical assistance, training, and evaluation. The agency funds services related to such areas as health promotion and disease prevention, homemaking, information and assistance, legal assistance, nutrition services, ombudsmen, public guardianship, respite care, retired senior volunteers, senior centers, and transportation. Senior Solutions often does the legwork for social workers, calling multiple agencies to find who can provide the needed assistance. Using an extensive, nationally used software program, agency workers assess callers’ needs and then connect them to community resources that can meet those needs.