Institute On Aging

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Celebrating our 20th anniversary in 2005, Institute on Aging (IOA) is a community-based, not-for-profit organization that touches the lives of thousands of seniors in San Francisco, Marin, and the Peninsula each year.IOA's mission is to enhance the quality of life of adults, as they age, enabling them to maintain their health, well-being, and independence. The IOA plays a leading role in community services to help older adults, offering innovative programs in physical and mental health, social services, creative arts, spiritual healing, education, and research. Pioneering Services for Older Adults IOA had its origins over thirty years ago in the pioneering geriatrics program of San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital, which first called attention to the needs of seniors in the community. Early innovations were adult day health care and home-care services--alternatives to placement in a nursing home, where the older adult was essentially removed from family, friends, familiar surroundings, and favorite activities. New services were designed to enable older adults to continue living in their own homes, with their famlies, rather than being relegated to institutional care.

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