Aging with Options™ Videos


Volunteers of America recognizes that aging is for many a complex and fearful unknown. We want to help older Americans celebrate the joy of living by creating a sustained, trusted relationship with support systems that allow them to age at home―wherever that may be. We will change the aging experience through our most aggressive initiative to date―Aging with Options.
Rosemarie Rae, Executive Vice President, Discusses Our Upcoming National Press Club Panel Event
Rosemarie Rae, Executive Vice President of Volunteers of America, discusses the services we offer older Americans, including our Aging with Options™ initiative, and introduces our upcoming National Press Club panel event set for May 11, 2010.
Chuck Gould, National President and CEO, Discusses Terraces on Tulane
While Volunteers of America has been working in New Orleans since the late 1800s, for those that lost their homes during Hurricane Katrina, we are committed to creating 1,000 units of affordable housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans.
Rosemarie Rae Discusses Aging with Options™ on Comcast Local Edition
Executive Vice President, Rosemarie Rae, recently appeared on Comcast Local Edition to discuss Volunteers of America and our focus on enabling seniors to age in place.
Chuck Gould Explains Aging with Options™
Volunteers of America’s National President and CEO Chuck Gould discusses our Aging with Options initiative’s main goal - allowing seniors to live at home regardless of their means.
Aging with Options™ - Ensuring All Americans Have Choices About Where and How They Age
We recognize that aging is a complex and fearful unknown. We want to help older Americans celebrate the joy of living by creating trusted relationships with support systems that allow them to age at home. We will change the aging experience through our most aggressive initiative to date - Aging with Options.
Chuck Gould Discusss Aging with Options™ on Comcast Local Edition
Our National President, Charles W. Gould, recently appeared on Comcast Local Edition to discuss how we will change the aging experience through our most aggressive initiative to date - Aging with Options.
Inside Elder Care Interview
Volunteers of America National President and CEO, Chuck Gould, was recently interviewed by the founder of the Inside Elder Care blog.
Chuck Gould Describes the Three Components of our Aging with Options™ Initiative
Chuck Gould, our National President and CEO, describes the three components of our Aging with Options initiative - services and programs that help the elderly with light assistance on an as-needed basis, more regular help, and ongoing assistance or medical care on a daily basis.
Chuck Gould Describes our Our Moral Obligation to America's Seniors
Volunteers of America National President and CEO Chuck Gould describes how those affiliated with our organization believe that providing services to those in need and helping seniors with their health care needs is a moral obligation.
Volunteers of America President & CEO Chuck Gould Describes People's Idealized Vision of Aging
Volunteers of America National President and CEO Chuck Gould discusses the idealized vision of aging people tend to have. "We imagine bouncing grandchildren on our knees. We have images of being healthy....and then reality begins to set in."
Volunteers of America National President and CEO Chuck Gould on The Effect of Aging on a Family
Chuck Gould discusses the effect aging has on families - the average American woman provides care to a child for 17 years and can expect to care for an elderly parent for 18 years.
Volunteers of America President & CEO Discusses his Experiences with Aging Family Members
Chuck Gould discusses his personal experience watching family members age and notes that “everybody has a story to tell about an aging family member.” What Volunteers of America is hoping to do is show people that there is a better way to age and that aging should not be dreaded.
Volunteers of America President & CEO Chuck Gould Discusses Seniors' Willingness to Volunteer
Volunteers of America National President and CEO Chuck Gould discusses seniors as a resource in their communities and that over a fifth of seniors have the time and willingness to give back to their communities.
Volunteers of America President & CEO Chuck Gould Discusses the Importance of Long-Term Care
Volunteers of America National President and CEO Chuck Gould discusses Medicare, Medicaid and the importance of a long term care component.
Volunteers of America President & CEO Chuck Gould Describes our WellAWARE Technology
Chuck Gould discusses the WellAWARE technology which allows monitoring of seniors home environment and vital signs. "We can tell when they are restless in bed, for instance, and the system creates a pattern for that individual and then notifies the health care professional when that pattern is broken."