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The KEDDO Area Agency on Aging (AAA) serves people aged sixty
and older in Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha and
McCurtain Counties. Services are provided under the Older Americans Act of 1965
as amended and through grants from the following agencies:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Administration on Aging.
Oklahoma Department of Human Services-Aging Services Division
Oklahoma State Legislature.
It is the mission of the Area Agency on Aging to develop greater capacity and
foster the development and implementation of comprehensive and coordinated
systems to serve older individuals. The intent is to secure and maintain maximum
independence and dignity in a home environment for older individuals capable of
self care with supportive services, remove individual and social barriers to
economic and personal independence for older individuals; provide a continuum of
care for vulnerable older individuals and to secure the opportunity for older
individuals to receive managed in-home and community based long term care
services.
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