City of Los Angeles Department of Aging provides community based services to seniors and their caregivers to ensure the highest quality of life as possible and remain in the community.

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Caregivers

LADOA provides support groups for caregivers throughout the City of Los Angeles. These support groups meet weekly or on-line.

Turning 100?

The focus of the Centenarian Program is to celebrate residents of the City of Los Angeles who are 100 years of age or older.

Multipurpose Centers

There are 16 Multipurpose Centers (MPC) throughout the City of Los Angeles. These centers serve as community focal points for senior services.
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Support LADOA

We welcome and appreciate any contributions to support our mission, you can choose to donate or volunteer

News & Events

For current information about LADOA and upcoming events.
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The State of Aging and Health Among Older Latinos in Los Angeles 2009

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Project Care

Here are pictures of LADOA's Project Care campaign. See the happy faces and wonderful gifts our seniors received.
2009 Project Care Pictures
2010 Project Care Pictures
2011 Project Care Pictures

Aging Well In L.A. TV Show

Aging Well in LA is LA Cityview 35's weekly series focusing on issues affecting our City's senior and family caregivers. Aging Well in LA has been a valuable source of information for seniors and family caregivers since 2001. Host Paul Petersen welcomes guests from all sectors of our society and engages them in thought-provoking dialogue and frank discourse. Aging Well in LA received an Emmy nomination. Please click this link for a list of episodes available for viewing

Urgent: 2013 electronic federal payments required

Go Direct affects all federal benefit and non-tax payments will be paid electronically by March 1, 2013. This change will impact people who are about to apply for federal benefits (e.g. SSA, SSI, SSDI) and the more than eight million people who are already receiving benefits by paper check. Below are the official deadlines.

People applying for federal benefits (new enrollees) after May 1, 2011, will need to choose their preferred electronic payment option when they enroll in federal benefits

People already receiving federal benefits by check will need to make the switch to electronic payments by March 1, 2013.

People already receiving benefit payments electronically do not need to take action. They will continue to receive their payments as usual on payment day.
For more information, please click this link or go to www.godirect.gov.

You may also click the link below to open a pdf document with information about Go Direct.
Go Direct Info in pdf format