Member Profile: Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging
Member Name: Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging
Location: Cleveland
Industry: Healthcare/Care Management
What We Do:
We provide choices for people to live independently and remain in the place they like to call home.
What’s a Trend You’re Seeing/Prediction for the Future:
Telehealth. In our current situation with the pandemic, Telehealth is a vital piece of what we need in order to make sure our consumers are doing ok. The advancement of Telehealth technologies will now move quicker in this new normal.
A Problem/Challenge We Are Working To Solve:
Loneliness of seniors and Food Insecurities. On average, for every day a senior spends alone and has no other human contact, this will be as harmful as smoking 5 packs of cigarettes a day.
Organization's Slogan:
We provide choices for people to live independently and remain in the place they like to call home.
Why is Ohio is a great place to do business?
Ohio has a great growing skilled workforce in many sectors of business. We have great Universities and colleges and many of those students are staying local and we are reaping the benefit. We have a great intern program at WRAAA and many of our interns come to us from Cleveland State and other surrounding higher education schools.