Life Senior Services Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Last year, life senior services (life or lss) helped over 30,000 seniors, caregivers and disabled adults navigate challenges and opportunities by providing information, education, and services to help them maintain their independence and quality of life. Additionally, life is a trusted community resource, providing information and resource to health and social services professionals who support seniors. Lss offers a wide variety of programs and services to meet the needs of seniors and caregivers, including: seniorline: aging can present new challenges and questions, seniorline focuses on providing answers, solutions and resources. Lss's seniorline brings convenient access to hundreds of services through dozens of organizations. Callers are connected not only to life's services, but to local, state, and national programs, helping address problems, large and small. Adult day services: lss offers adult day services at two locations in tulsa and one in broken arrow. Life's adult day health centers offer a safe, friendly, daytime home for adults who may be socially isolated, have a physical impairment, alzheimer's, dementia, mental health issues, or a developmental disability. The centers also provide support to family and caregivers, making the time at home more manageable and enjoyable. Case management services: aging in place is the goal for most of us. Lss's medicaid advantage program and independent case management teams focus on helping people remain independent and safely at home. By matching a senior's needs with in-home and community-based resources, case managers help fill the gaps that threaten an individual's independence and safety. With the right supports in place, seniors can remain independent, safe, comfortably at home. Caregiver support services: lss offers support and services essential for successful care giving. Personal resource counseling, information and referral, classes, support groups, and three resource centers help lighten the load of caregivers of all ages. Behavioral health services: seniors may experience mental health challenges at the same rate as other age groups, but they are the least- likely demographic to seek help. Therefore, it is particularly important to remove any barriers for seniors who may need professional therapy. Changes such as chronic illness or loss of a spouse can cause depression or anxiety. Life's behavioral health services are free of charge to any senior who needs them, and are especially designed to meet the unique needs of aging adults; some of these services are provided in partnership with family and children's services. Community education: lss offers a variety of community education programs and an active speaker bureau to help older adults and their families learn more about issues, services, resources, and opportunities. Active senior center: research shows that staying active and socially connected are key components to aging well and living longer. Life's active senior center at roma berry is a gathering site for the area's active 50 and better community, offering a place to visit with friends and engage in a wide variety of educational and social programming. Offerings include yoga, ceramics, social gatherings, line dancing, theater, music classes, barre classes, board games, dances, pickleball, day trips and much more. Publications: lss publishes "the vintage newsmagazine" an award-winning publication written especially with seniors' interests and issues in mind. It reaches over 34,000 readers monthly, and is a trusted resource for information on senior issues. Lss also publishes two annual vintage guides to housing and services, one in tulsa and the other in Oklahoma city. These guides provide Oklahoma's most comprehensive guides to resources and services both in northeast and central Oklahoma. Medicare assistance program: the medicare assistance program offers information, education, and personal one-on-one enrollment assistance to medicare beneficiaries in 17

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
• Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -7.9%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.83; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings