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Area Agencies on Aging

Congress enacted the 1965 "Older Americans Act" as a response to the challenges a rapidly increasing older population imposed on our country’s systems of health care, retirement, housing, employment, and community services. The Older Americans Act created structures at the federal, State, and local level to administer programs that help our nation’s elderly maintain their health and independence in their homes and communities.

Today, the National Network on Aging includes the Administration on Aging, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Montana’s 10 Area Agencies on Aging are under contract to the Aging Services Bureau, Department of Public Health and Human Services; the designated State Agency on Aging responsible to administer Older Americans Act programs.

Montana’s Area Agencies on Aging are public or private non-profit agencies, designated by the Aging Services Bureau, to address the needs and concerns of older Montanans at the local level. Every Area Agency on Aging is required to have an advisory council, comprised primarily of older persons, to review and comment on all programs affecting the elderly at the community level. More than 100 advisory council members work in partnership with Montana’s Area Agencies on Aging.

In Montana, there is one toll free telephone number to call that will ring into your local Area Agency on Aging, that number is 1-800-551-3191.

  • For the local telephone number, address and e-mail of your communities Area Agency, click here.
  • For a map of the counties served by each AAA in Word or PDF .
  • For a listing of all Montana Senior Centers, click here

Several of our Area Agencies have web sites, they are:

Montana Senior Centers web links;