The mission we embrace at Aging Matters is to improve (and, if possible, significantly enhance) the psychosocial well-being of our individual, family and facility clients across the NYC metro area. We do this by providing psychological services of the highest quality to older adults and their family caregivers, and by providing state-of-the-art training and development services to senior facilities, programs and residences. And we also provide ongoing coaching support for our staff psychologists, to foster their learning and development as geriatric professionals.
Our vision for the future at Aging Matters is to contribute substantially to the development of gero-psychology, and to its integration with overall geriatric care, in the service of improving quality of life for older adults and their family caregivers. Over the next decade, we will work with senior facilities, programs and residences to develop and re-position themselves to meet the emerging challenge of caring for the next generation of seniors - i.e., Baby-Boomers - in ways that meet or exceed expectations.
When we say that our name is our commitment,
we mean that aging matters to us,
Both because and on behalf of...
Our primary clients, older adults, who encounter daunting challenges, but also new opportunities, as they age and seek to adapt and thrive in the final years of their lives.
The caregiving families of older adults, who seek to help and support their loved ones, while also sustaining positive adult relations with them, but who need help and support themselves to learn more effective ways of achieving that balance.
The caretaking & administrative staff of senior facilities, programs and residences, who welcome opportunities to enhance their skills and develop further as professionals.
Society at large, which has come to acknowledge the importance of caring for senior citizens in ways that preserve and strengthen their dignity, but which is still searching to find better ways of making their final years as joyful and meaningful as possible.
The next generation of older adults – the Baby Boomers – who have already begun to re-define what aging is, and who will be looking for facilities, services and communities that appreciate and resonate with their values and expectations for aging.
The top leadership of senior facilities, who seek to meet these challenges and needs.
