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How to donate your IRA required minimum distribution

How to Donate Your IRA Required Minimum Distribution to CICOA

Disclaimer: This guide is for informational purposes only. Always consult your tax, legal, or accounting advisors before engaging in any transaction. Have CICOA’s services positively impacted your life or the lives of family members? If you are retired, you may...
Office Team Building Volunteer Project

What It’s All About

What began nine years ago as a simple team building exercise for staff turned into so much more. William Anderson, vice president of business development at United Home Healthcare, recalled his first experience volunteering at CICOA’s annual Safe at Home event....
Fall Prevention for All Ages

Mindful Fall Prevention for All Ages

All of us have fallen at one time or another. My own experiences include more than falling in childhood when learning to walk or ride a bicycle. Remember disco dancing? I cannot begin to describe the mortification I felt sliding...
CICOA client Carleen outside her home

CICOA Makes Homes Safer for Seniors in Midtown

Carleen Carter, 70, has lived in the Crown Hill neighborhood of Indianapolis for 60 years, and she considers her involvement in the community to be one of her biggest joys. Now it’s the community’s turn to help her out. On...
ER Dementia Advocate

Seniors With Dementia Need an Advocate in the ER; Indy Doctor Provides Tips

Going to the emergency room is stressful in the best of circumstances. For older adults – especially those with dementia – a trip to the ER can lead to confusion, extra medical tests and often longer hospital stays. Considering that...
Making home safer for seniors in Indianapolis

CICOA Volunteers Give Indy Woman a Safer, Tidier Home

CICOA had a challenge on its hands. It’s the kind of challenge every nonprofit would love to have: too many volunteers. In 2018, Dan Amonett, certified aging in place specialist, was coordinating the work of more than 150 volunteers to...

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