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'A Stronger Aging Network': Shapiro Administration Continues Statewide Tour Highlighting Modernized Tool Keeping Older Adults Safe and Boosting Oversight, Accountability of[...]

July 22, 2026 - New Bloomfield, PA

"A Stronger Aging Network": Shapiro Administration Continues Statewide Tour Highlighting Modernized Tool Keeping Older Adults Safe and Boosting Oversight, Accountability of Local Aging Agencies

Pennsylvania Department of Aging (PDA) Secretary Jason Kavulich continued a statewide tour in Perry County highlighting how the Department's new approach to evaluating the performance of older adult protective services is delivering better results in keeping older adults safe, leaving behind a prior ineffective pass/fail system that did not provide adequate oversight of local aging agencies.

That tool, the Comprehensive Aging Performance Evaluation (CAPE), is also providing historic levels of transparency and accountability of the Area Agency on Aging (AAA) network that provides an array of services to support older adults, including protective services. In the 26-27 budget, Governor Shapiro secured a $1 million increase for CAPE so the Department can continue to improve AAA oversight and accountability.

"Older adults in Pennsylvania deserve a modernized system that helps them stay safe and supported, healthy and thriving, but our infrastructure had not kept pace with the growing and changing needs of older adults," said Secretary Kavulich. "The Shapiro Administration took this challenge head on and is making overdue system improvements. We have raised the bar of accountability. CAPEallows the Department to do away with a simple pass/fail scoring system, and instead comprehensively ask, 'what does this local agency specifically need to improve?'"

Speakers Include:
Secretary of Aging Jason Kavulich
Justin Lee, Executive Director, Perry County Area Agency on Aging
County Commissioner Bill Lyons
Allyson Valentine and Olivia Frymoyer, program supervisors






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