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Founded in 1961, Keiro improves the quality of life for older adults and their caregivers in the Japanese American community of Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties. Keiro provides a range of culturally-sensitive programs and resources, in both English and Japanese, to meet the evolving needs of our aging community. In everything we do, we advance our mission through a person-centered, innovative, and collaborative approach.
Download Keiro’s brochure (English) here.
Download Keiro’s brochure (Japanese) here.
Mission
To enhance the quality of senior life in Our Community
What We Do
Keiro provides various programs and services to meet the evolving needs of our community’s older adults and their caregivers in a culturally-sensitive manner.
Learn About Our Programs and Services
Read about Keiro’s Community Needs Survey
Quality of Life Defined
Each quality of life element is further defined below:
Health/Wellness: A person’s health/wellness is defined by their physical, mental, and emotional state of being. Health/wellness includes both the presence, absence and/or risk of disease and symptoms, and the individual’s perception of their health status.
Purpose: An older adult should have at least one self-defined purpose – something that brings meaning and joy to their life. Purpose can include family and friends, community engagement, hobbies, and spirituality. While it is often revisited throughout one’s lifetime, a lack of purpose can contribute to a decline in wellbeing.
Connectedness: Humans are inherently social and need engagement through social networks to thrive. Connectedness – whether at an individual family, or community level – is vital to physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Lack of social connection, including in-person and virtually, has been shown to have significant negative impact on overall health/wellness.
Security: A sense of security is necessary for older adults to live a healthy and fulfilling life. Security includes financial stability; consistent housing; a reliable social network; and access to high quality, affordable services. A lack of security is even one of the previously listed areas can impede an older adult’s quality of life.
Autonomy: As older adults age, autonomy, and the ability to choose how to live life the way they want should be maintained as much as possible. Although physical and/or cognitive limitations may make this difficult, lacking even a feeling of autonomy can lead to a decline in quality of life.
Our Leadership and Staff
Keiro is driven by its mission: to enhance the quality of senior life in Our Community. The organization is governed by a board of directors. Its volunteer members are representatives of the community and, along with the president and CEO of Keiro, are fiduciaries of the organization’s resources.
Keiro Today and In the Future
As the 21st century advanced, the needs of Our Community and the issues around aging populations continued to change.
Throughout the last 60 years, Keiro has always been committed to serving the community’s older adults and meeting their changing needs, from a Japanese hospital, nursing homes, a retirement home, and memory care to adult day care, preventative services, support for caregivers, community education, palliative care, community partnerships and more.
Although Keiro has moved forward from facility-based care, today, we continue to serve Japanese American and Japanese older adults and their caregivers. Throughout Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties, Keiro’s programs and partnerships are providing services that will continue to expand the capacity for older adults to age well and age wherever they call home.