The American Association for International Aging (AAIA) is a nonprofit organiztion created to:
a. act as a positive force to improve the status of older people worldwide;
b. provide an organized channel for the exchange of ideas, information education and mutual experience, and to facilitate such exchange between similar organizations in other nations which focus on the needs and care of the aging;
c. promote the involvement and active participation of older people in meeting their own needs and those of their peers and in making significant life-long contributions to their communities either within the workplace or outside, for as long as they feel able and wish to do so;
d. encourage the active participation of older persons in decision making affecting their own lives;
e. coordinate with service providers worldwide to ensure the needs of the aging are not excluded of neglected;
f. seek new approaches to enable aging people everywhere to serve and learn from each other;
g. promote intergenerational approaches to meeting the objectives of the Corporation;
h. act as an advocate on behalf of the aging worldwide;
i. support projects or provide direct services to the aging, addressing such basic needs as adequate food" clothing, shelter, health care, education, training, personal fulfillment, and refugee and disaster assistance;
j. promote, support and facilitate programs that enable older people to remain in and receive care in their own homes, families and communities; and
k. support and operate development programs addressing the needs of the aging.
Contact:
Bill Benson, Washington AAIA Representative
11101 Georgia Avenue, Suite 320
Silver Spring, MD 20902
Phone: 301-933-6493
Dave Baldridge, Executive Director
4220 Indian Springs, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Phone: 505-503-8459