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Lehigh Valley Alliance on Aging



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Lehigh Valley Alliance on Aging

Working Together To Change Lives and Community Condition
 

Our Promise

The Lehigh Valley Alliance on Aging (LVAA) is a volunteer organization convened by United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley to address the needs of older adults in our community.

The Alliance's mission is to advance community strategies designed to ensure that comprehensive long-term care and supportive service systems meet the existing and emerging needs of all older-adults in our community. Click here to read about our History.

Our Plan

  • Mobilize the Lehigh Valley region for the purpose of making the emerging issues, preferences, and options/opportunities for our older adult population a public priority for planning and investment.
  • Develop a comprehensive, regional, long-range plan for improving the organization, access, and delivery of long-term care and supportive services for older adults.
  • Develop a regional networking, data collection/dissemination, and information sharing system for improving communication and resource development to be used by consumers, service providers and community planning organizations.

Our Results 

LVAA regularly publishes Status Updates on the state of older adults in the Lehigh Valley. Click here for our list of publications.

In addition, LVAA has achieved the following:

  • Screen 2,700 more adults since 2008. Once screened, a person continues to receive benefits. Utilizing Benefits Checkup, participants saved on additional $2 Million over the course of the last three years. 
  • Benefits screening provided $2 Million additional dollars for older adults in the Lehigh Valley, not previously available to us without this screening initiative. 
  • Held eight conferences to improve the skills of direct care workers (such as home health aides, long-term care facility workers and adult day care staff). LVAA offered conferences on a variety of topics such as "how to cope with loss when your client dies" and "stages of Alzheimer's". The initiative had an average of 48 direct care workers per conference.
  • Unveiled a Universally Designed Home, accessible to people both with and without disabilities. Built by Lehigh Career and Technical Institute, the project allowed LVAA to train over 200 students, 20 faculty, 50 members of the builders' association and countless community members in July 2008. 
  • Click here for more LVAA Accomplishments.