Our Mission
SCSA
educates professionals to work more effectively with their senior clients. We
believe that the right kind of planning, recommendations and referrals can make
aging a state to be savored instead of a fate to be feared. For those who work
with seniors, that means understanding the key health, social and financial
factors that are important to seniors—and how these factors work together. CSAs
are able to integrate this knowledge into their professional practices, no
matter what field they’re in. They’ve learned how incredibly gratifying it is
to help seniors achieve their goals, and the seniors they’ve worked with have
learned how important it is to work with someone who truly understands their
age-related circumstances.
Our History
In
1997, Ed Pittock, president of SCSA, gathered experts in all facets of aging,
including doctors, attorneys, gerontologists, accountants, financial planners.
All shared Ed’s vision: that seniors would benefit from an in-depth,
standardized education for the professionals who work with them. The education
program that this group of renowned experts created became the basis for the
Certified Senior Advisor (CSA)® designation.
The Value of Our Education
The
education that SCSA delivers is unique—to our knowledge, it is the only program
that teaches an integrated approach to the health, financial, and social
aspects of aging, with its focus on people, not products. Professionals from
many walks of life have added the CSA designation to their credentials, and
have integrated the CSA education into their professional practices—to the
benefit of their senior clients and themselves.
These
days, professionals can choose to pursue dozens of credentials from dozens of
organizations. Some of these organizations don’t require their designees to
live up to a code of ethics. We do.
Some
of these organizations excuse designees from continuing to learn and from
giving back to the community. We don't.
Those
are just two of the many reasons that some 14,000 professionals have become
CSAs…and why Society of Certified Senior Advisors is the fastest-growing
credentialing organization of its kind.
