The Baltimore City Commission on Aging and Retirement Education's (CARE) Senior Health Insurance Program (SHIP) will be assisting persons with Medicare to review existing plans and enroll in a Medicare prescription drug plan, or the Low Income Subsidy Assistance program at local senior centers, senior buildings, churches and other community locations.
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John P. Stewart: Aging in the City Stewart is helping to reshape current thinking about how cities can meet the needs of elder citizens. By Cheryl Collins | March 2009 John P. Stewart, founder of a Baltimore-based think tank on aging, has helped create a blueprint for how cities can best meet the wide-ranging needs of older Americans. Click below for full story. |
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The Baltimore City Commission On Aging and Retirement Education (CARE) is a chartered organization created in 1973, by City Ordinance number 261, to advocate for Older Baltimoreans by developing, coordinating and funding programs, services and activities for seniors and establishing a pre-retirement education program. CARE serves as the local Area Agency on Aging (AAA) which allows the organization to receive funds from the Federal Older American's Act to coordinate and assure an adequate service delivery system
The Charter requires that CARE's structure include twenty-four (24) Commissioners, eighteen (18) of whom are appointed by the Mayor and six (6) of whom are ex-officio members, who serve to advise and assist CARE in its overall mission and direction. Commissioners advise and work with the Executive Director to promote agency efficiency and coordinate the delivery of programs and services for the elderly in Baltimore City.
The Baltimore City Commission on Aging and Retirement Education (CARE) envisions Baltimore as the most elderly-friendly city in America, where all of our older adults will have the opportunity to age with choice, independence, and dignity as they move along the aging continuum.
The Baltimore City Commission on Aging and Retirement Education (CARE), in partnership with other senior-serving organizations, is the primary public agency in the city responsible for advocating for and delivering services to older adult population, their family and caregivers in the City of Baltimore.