Services for Older Adults

North Hills Community Outreach offers a variety of services that help older adults in our community live healthy and safe with dignity at home.

In Service of Seniors: North

This program helps older adults in northern Allegheny County age 60 and older live healthy and safe with dignity in their homes through volunteer-based practical supports. There are NO income restrictions and services are free.

Before services can begin,  a North Hills Community Outreach coordinator must conduct an in-home visit. Once that is completed, we ask for one week’s notice on all transportation or other service requests.

Services are provided by trained, qualified, supportive volunteers who are required to have criminal background and personal reference checks.

In Service of Seniors services include:

• Rides to medical appointments, grocery stores and other errands

• Home safety checks

• Yard work such as raking leaves (no lawn mowing)

• Friendly home visits

• Telephone reassurance calls

• Transportation on our Free Rides for Seniors Shuttle along the Route 28 corridor.

• ACCESS 65+ -NHCO North Boroughs is an ACCESS 65+ sign-up site. Any senior 65 or older who needs to sign up for the ACCESS transportation program can visit NHCO North Boroughs office to fill out the paperwork instead of going to downtown Pittsburgh.

If you would like to receive assistance through In Service of Seniors: North, please contact:

Cathy Pschirer
In Service of Seniors Coordinator
412-487-6316 x 3313
clpschirer@nhco.org

Free Rides for Seniors (Pictured above)

Our 10-passenger Free Rides for Seniors shuttles provide transportation at no charge to those 60 and older. One shuttle provides transportation every day for seniors living in Blawnox, Sharpsburg, Aspinwall, Fox Chapel and O’Hara along or near Freeport Road.

This volunteer-staffed shuttle provides door-to-door shuttle service each weekday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. taking seniors to medical appointments, grocery stores, UPMC St. Margaret, banks, pharmacies and many other destinations of critical importance to seniors. Seniors older than 60 can call 412-782-2001 after 9:45 a.m. on the day they need a ride.

A second shuttle services seniors in Etna, Millvale, lower Shaler, Sharpsburg, Tarentum, Natrona Heights, Cheswick, Brackenridge, Oakmont, and Verona on various days of the week and will pick up seniors at designated high rises to take them to UPMC appointments.

Free Rides for Seniors office is at UPMC Lighthouse Pointe in O’Hara Township.

For more information about Free Rides for Seniors, please contact:

Tracy Elway
Free Rides for Seniors Coordinator
412-449-0151
tlelway@nhco.org

Interested in volunteering? Please visit Volunteer to Help Seniors.

In Service of Seniors is a partner program of the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s Open Your Heart to a Senior collaborative.

Thank you to our 2025 Friendly Visiting Sponsor