Council On Aging of Southwestern Ohio history

The Area Agency on Aging of Caddo Council on Aging, Inc. (CCOA) is a 501(c)(3) private non-profit agency serving seniors and their caregivers in Caddo Parish since 1972

1973 – Programs are started Downriver in Algonac and Maine City.

October 7, 1974 The National Institute on Aging is established.

April 23, 1975 First meeting of the National Advisory Council on Aging.

May 1, 1976 Doctor Robert N. Butler appointed first NIA director.

1977 – The Foster Grandparent Program, Home Repair, Homemaker and Green Thumb programs are added to provide programs, transportation, I&R, and Outreach services.

September 20, 1982 NIA Laboratory of Neurosciences Clinical Program admits the first inpatient to a new unit at the NIH Clinical Center.

1984 The first Alzheimer's Disease Centers are established.

1985 – The Administrative offices are moved to Eight Street in Port Huron.

1986 – The Friendly Visitor/Caller program is funded.

1987 The first annual Florence S. Mahoney Lecture on Aging is held.

November 4, 1988 P.L. 100-607 establishes the Geriatric Research and Training Centers (GRTC).

1990 – Brought the opening of Starpath Senior Adult Day Care and the organization of Off Our Rockers at Cherry Beach.

1992 The Health and Retirement Study, the leading source of combined data on health and financial circumstances of Americans over age 50 and a valuable resource to follow and predict trends and help inform policies for an aging America, is established.

1993 – CoA sees the addition of the Senior Nutrition Program to expand the CoA’s continuum of care with 10 congregate meal sites, five kitchens and home delivered meals.

1994 Nine demography of aging centers are funded to provide research on health, economics, and aging to make more effective use of data from several national surveys of health, retirement, and long-term care.

1995 – The Benevolent Prescription Drug Program was added to the list of CoA services.

1996 – In December, CoA senior nutrition moved the location of its largest kitchen to the St Clair County Community College and the weekend meals were added to the list of the CoA services.

1997 – The CoA purchased the old Detroit Edison building in downtown Port Huron in September.

1998 – Saw home delived meals program expand to offer liquid meals as prescribed by the seniors’ physicians.

1999 – Personal Care and Respite Care were added to the listing of CoA services.

2000 – Brought some of the longest awaited changes for the CoA when five separate operating locations in the Port Huron area were consolidated into the Council on Aging/Port Huron Senior Center in Port Huron in June.

2001 – Structured computer classes were offered in the new computer lab at the Port Huron Senior Center for the first time.

2002 – Seniors from the globe can access the CoA’s webpage at www.thecouncilonaging.org for information on our programs and services.

2003 – Saw the expansion of health and fitness initiatives with the designation of a county-wide Health and Fitness Coordinator and the availability of the personal fitness trainer program at the Port Huron Senior Center.

2004 – The nutrition meal site in St Clair was moved to Pine Shores Golf Course to allow for new expanded services like the Senior Nutrition Program’s catering service called “COAST” (Culinary Options Addressing Senior Tastes).

2005 – CoA opens a new congregate meal site at Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission in the south end of Port Huron.

2006 NIA leads the NIH conference “AD: Setting the Research Agenda a Century after Auguste D,” to assess the state of current Alzheimer's disease research and the most promising routes to progress.

2008 A Biology of Aging Summit is convened to review NIA’s research portfolio, identify areas of opportunity, and facilitate the formulation of cohesive and comprehensive plans for the future.

2009 – CoA was awarded three Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses with the assistance of Blue Water Area Transportation and MDOT. Members of the CoA may receive the “Senior Happenings Newsletter” via e-mail.

2010: Answers Resource Guide Recognizing the need for a comprehensive guide to services for older adults in Orange County, the Council on Aging published its first Senior Guide O.C. in the fall of 2010.

2011 – CoA celebrated the one year anniversary of the acquisition of the Washington Life Center in Marine City.

2012: Expansion beyond Orange County with HICAP Following recognition at the state and national level for our Orange County HICAP program, the Council was awarded two county-wide contracts for San Bernardino County and Riverside County’s HICAP Programs.

2013 NIA grantees publish landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing that costs for caring for dementia patients exceed those for heart disease, cancer, and many other conditions.

2014 – CoA broke ground for the new Conrad Community Center in Capac.

2015 On February 9–10, NIA convenes the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Summit 2015: Path to Treatment and Prevention to develop recommendations that provide a framework for a new Alzheimer’s disease research agenda.

The Trans-NIH GeroScience Interest Group hosts the second geroscience summit, “Disease Drivers of Aging: 2016 Advances in Geroscience Summit” on April 13–14 at the New York Academy of Sciences.

2017: Ombudsman Program Expansion The Council was awarded the Ombudsman Contract for Riverside County based on the success of the Orange County Ombudsman Program.