Macedonia FACE and Vintage, Inc. are among 4 awardees of $500,000 from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation as a part of the foundation’s Healthy Aging Challenge. The challenge was to create responses for transformational, equitable, and scalable opportunities to leverage the assets and value of the region’s aging population and support current and future caregiving.
“As southwestern Pennsylvania’s population continues to decrease in size and grow older, it was imperative to the Henry L. Hillman Foundation to get ideas on the table to address the state of aging well in this region,” said David K. Roger, foundation president. “The four successful proposals of the Healthy Aging Challenge come from organizations and partnerships with extensive track records of caring for older populations and innovating to navigate around limited resources. We all get older, and the work that these organizations are doing now and in the future provides benefits to a wide cross section of the region’s population.”
Macedonia FACE and Vintage submitted a proposal for:
The Wise Neighbor Project: Promoting wellness through trusted engagement: providing community-based, trusted and culturally responsive services that help elders improve the social determinants of their health and age in place.
Tinisha Hunt, Macedonia FACE CEO, said, “FACE is excited to be working in partnership with Vintage to assist our senior neighbors and close care gaps. Navigating a multi-faceted system can be daunting and as trusted neighbors, we are here to help. Our treasured elders deserve the support and attention that will be available through this program so that they can continue to stay safe and healthy living independently.”
The Wise Neighbor Project will be an extension of services provided at the Senior Center at the Thelma Lovette YMCA and the home delivered Meals on Wheels programs already being provided.
If you have questions about the project, please contact Justin LeWinter, Adult Services Program Manager, at jlewinter@macedoniaface.org.
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