Doug Green Selected to the AAA7’s Board of Trustees

The Area Agency on Aging District 7 (AAA7) Executive Director Pamela K. Matura announces that Doug Green was elected to the AAA7 Board of Trustees. The AAA7 Board of Trustees is the 15-member governing body of the agency, which serves ten counties. The counties are Adams, Brown, Gallia, Highland, Jackson, Lawrence, Pike, Ross, Scioto, and Vinton.

Mr. Green is known throughout Brown County where he serves as the Brown County Auditor. He is community oriented and is affiliated with the following organizations: Ohio Council of County Officials, President; County Auditors’ Association of Ohio, Southwest District Past President; Western Brown Alumni Association, Past President; Sardinia-Mowrystown Lions Club, Past Secretary/Treasurer; Brown County Seniors Alive Coalition; Ohio Township Trustees Associations; Brown County Agricultural Society; Brown County Hospital Auxiliary; Ohio Recorders’ Association, Past President; and Ohio Tobacco Festival Committee, Prayer Breakfast, Co-Chair.

The Area Agency’s largest program by far is PASSPORT (Pre-Admission Screening System Providing Options and Resources Today). This popular program provides in-home services to older adults, age 60 and over, who medically qualify for nursing home placement and meet specific eligibility requirements. By arranging the most appropriate mix of services to add to the care provided by family members and friends, individuals are able to delay nursing home placement. AAA7 has a wide range of other services and programs to complement the core mission of the agency, e.g., the National Family Caregiver Support Program which is designed to take care of those persons who care for others by helping them prepare to be a caregiver or offering information, referral, and assistance; AAA7’s Kinship Navigation Program established to work with grandparents raising grandchildren; and the Ryan White HIV/Aids Case Management Program which serves at-risk individuals with HIV/Aids in southern Ohio.
AAA7 offers a Service Coordination program in three sites around the district in which a staff person is assigned to apartment complexes to help older adults and disabled residents access the local resources and services they may need. Through AAA7’s Emergency Home Repair Program, actual home repair is provided through partnerships with the Ohio Department of Development and the office of USDA Rural Development to eligible older adults.

Executive Director Matura said, “The guide we follow is our mission statement which states: ‘Our mission encompasses three important activities for older Americans aged 60 years and over and other frail or at-risk Americans: identify the needs of these populations and create plans for meeting those needs through a system of in-home and community-based services, which enable people to maintain their independence and dignity; administer a wide variety of federal, state, local, and private funds, which support those services; and advocate on behalf of all older persons within AAA7’s service area.’ Mr. Green sees the value of allowing people to maintain their independence and dignity and we look forward to working with him.”