Aging Partners

New Location!

Aging Partners at Victory Park TV Spot

Live & Learn TV: Aging Partners at Victory Park (June 2023)

Aging Partners has relocated to Victory Park, 600 S. 70th St. Care managers, resource specialists, administration, the central kitchen, as well as a new fitness center and senior center will be located at the new facility.

To access the public entrance, visitors are asked to enter the south entrance on Victory Park Drive off 70th Street and follow the signs around the south part of the building complex and enter under the Aging Partners sign on the east side of the facility.

Access to Information and Referral, Case Management, Legal Services, Medicaid Waiver and Home Delivered Meals is available by calling 402-441-7070.

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Department Head

Randall S. Jones

Randall S. Jones

Engagement of the entire community in supporting our most mature citizens is a key goal for Randy. Dramatic increases in the number of seniors living in our community provide great opportunities for programming, infrastructure, recreation and services that meet this increasing demand. Aging is a journey… let’s celebrate what we have to offer.

Aging Partners plans, coordinates and advocates for older people in our eight-county area. Our mission is to enhance daily living, expand personal choices and educate the community to ensure the independence and full life of the people we serve.

The Advisory Council is an advisory board to Aging Partners and its signatory member counties.


Purposes

  • to support and further the goals and mission of Aging Partners.
  • to act as the advocate for older citizens of the eight-county area regarding their concerns, needs, problems and issues;
  • to identify and define the most pressing needs and concerns of the areas older citizens;
  • to assist in the development of effective plans to meet identified needs on a prioritized and continuing basis;
  • to develop, or cause to be developed, needed services, programs, or efforts to meet those identified needs and concerns;
  • to monitor and evaluate services and programs for older residents to ensure that service objectives are being set in concert with the identified needs and concerns and that those objectives are being met;
  • to act as a sounding board for staff by providing review and input on new or revised initiatives, strategies and projects.

Membership

  • The membership of the Advisory Council shall come from the current signatory members to Aging Partners as of July 1 each year. The membership is based in part on the proportional relationship of each county's age 60 and over population and shall be as follows:
  • Each county shall be entitled to one representative.
  • Additionally, each county shall be entitled to one additional representative for each group of 4,000 age 60 and over residents.
  • Counties with less than 4,000 – 60 and over will have at least one additional representative.
  • At least half of each county's representatives to the Advisory Council must be age 60 and over.

Appointment

Appointment of representatives to the Aging Partners Advisory Council shall be the responsibility of each county's elected governing board. However, the representatives of the Primary County shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City of Lincoln with the concurrence of the Lincoln City Council. Current board members are:

  • Greg Janak, Butler County
  • Jeannie Zegers, Butler County
  • Linda Heinisch, Fillmore County
  • Denise Alaki, Lancaster County
  • Gloria Aron, Lancaster County
  • Tammy Burton-Fikar, Lancaster County
  • Shari Busch, Lancaster County
  • Irina Garakian, Lancaster County
  • Lee Kreimer, Lancaster County
  • Jenika Long, Lancaster County
 
  • Maysoon Shaheen, Lancaster County
  • Kati Umberger, Lancaster County
  • John Wyvill, Lancaster County
  • Ellis Waller, Polk County
  • Kathy Stokebrand, Saline County
  • Nancy Tellez, Saline County
  • Susan Burkey, Seward County
  • Jean Eggleston, Seward County
  • Becky Green, York County
  • Fran Reinert, York County

Nebraska Area Agencies on Aging

View the coverage map.(PDF, 815KB)


Links

 

General Information
agingpartners@lincoln.ne.gov
402-441-7070 or 800-247-0938
600 S. 70th St., Lincoln, NE 68510

 

Health and Fitness
402-441-7575
600 S. 70th St., Lincoln, NE  68510

                  

Fillmore County Senior Services
402-759-4922
1320 "G" St., Geneva, NE  68361

Live & Learn, Living Well Magazine, Media
Public Relations
402-441-7070
600 S. 70th St., Lincoln, NE  68510

 

Polk County Senior Services
402-764-2252
101 W. 5 St., Stromsburg, NE  68666

Nutrition
402-441-7159
600 S. 70th St., Lincoln, NE  68510

 

Saline Eldercare
402-821-3330
109 W. 3rd St., Wilber, NE  68465

Senior Centers
402-441-7158
600 S. 70th St., Lincoln, NE  68510

 

Saunders County Senior Services
402-441-7070

Transportation
402-441-7863
600 S. 70th St., Lincoln, NE  68510

 

Seward County Senior Services
402-761-3593
105 "B" St., Milford, NE  68405

Butler County Senior Services
402-367-6131
592 "D" St., David City, NE  68632 

 

York County Senior Services
402-362-7626
2325 Nebraska Ave., York, NE  68467