Area Agency on Aging 1-B Announces New Name – AgeWays
(AgeWays, Jan. 25, 2024)
Southfield, MI – The Area Agency on Aging 1-B is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new name and a new logo!
The agency has rebranded as AgeWays, because the name reflects what we do best: Help older adults age in the ways they choose and give tools to family caregivers to support those choices.
“I’m hoping our new name opens up a new level of awareness and we draw many more people to our agency looking for services and direction,” says Michael Karson, CEO and President of AgeWays.
AgeWays offers resources, services, and programs ranging from respite care to homebound meals to transportation and Medicare counseling for residents in Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair and Washtenaw counties.
AgeWays also advocates for older adults, adults with disabilities, and family caregivers on the local, state, and federal levels. The team works with elected officials to bolster home-based services for lower income adults, to boost pay for home health aides, to support family caregivers with respite programs, and to address many other issues important to the people we serve.
To learn more AgeWays programs, call 800-852-7795, a number that remains as a trusted source of information for older adults and caregivers.
AgeWays website address is now AgeWays.org and email addresses end with ageways.org (for example, jsmith@ageways.org).
Area Agencies on Aging were established in the federal Older Americans Act (OAA) of 1973 to help older Americans and their caregivers live quality lives with independence and dignity. The (former) Area Agency on Aging 1-B is one of 16 in the state and 622 nationwide that formed a year later. We remain the largest of the AAAs in Michigan.
