Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA)

Long-term care services: Philadelphia Corporation for Aging performed 37,000 assessments in fy 2018 for individuals in need of care at home. Pca provided service coordination services to 23,210 consumers. These services included home delivered meals, personal care, home health care, nursing care, physical, speech and occupational therapies and home modifications depending on the individual's needs. Through pca's centralized meal distribution center, more than 6,250 older philadelphians received more than 1,554,000 nutritionally-balanced hot or frozen meals last year.

Access services: in fy 2018 more than 325,000 one-way rides were provided to senior community centers, adult day services, medical appointments and shopping. Door-through-door and upper floor assistance was provided 55,000 times through attendant transportaion services (ats). The pca helpline provided more than 128,507 callers with information and referral through the pca helpline. In addition, more than 74,000 people received information and assistance and 950 received direct help in understanding health insurance options and benefits including medicare, medicare part d, medigap and private insurance.

Community services: pca coordinates and funds a broad range of community services and programs for senior citizens. These include 18 senior community centers which provide socialization, health screenings and educational programs to some 35,000 seniors. More than 487,000 meals were served to seniors in fy 2018 at these senior community centers and the 10 satellite meal programs funded by pca. Pca also funded various programs for legal, employment and volunteer services.