Pennsylvania Department of Aging Secretary Jason Kavulich will continue a statewide tour highlighting how the department's new approach to reviewing the performance of older adult protective services is delivering better results in keeping older adults safe. This new, modern tool allows the department to do away with a simple pass/fail scoring system for local aging agencies and comprehensively ask "What does this local agency specifically need to improve?"
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 those services.
Event participants
Secretary of Aging Jason Kavulich
Jennifer Haeussler-Barnhart, administrator, Office of Aging Services, Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Patricia McKernan, director, Montgomery County Health and Human Services
Susan Tachau, chair, Office of Aging Services Advisory Council
Elliott Smith, deputy administrator of care management
Protective Services, Caregiver Support Program, OPTIONS management
Event details
When:
Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at 1 p.m.
Where:
Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
1430 DeKalb Street, Norristown, PA 19401
Media RSVP:
Media interested in covering the event should RSVP via email to agingcomms@pa.gov and share the names, titles and phone numbers of each member of their team.
The event will involve remarks from attendees and a press availability prior to a larger group roundtable discussion. Press are invited to stay for and cover the entirety of the event.
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