This directory is designed to help seniors, their families and the professionals who assist them, to find goods and services they need from companies and organizations with an interest in serving them.

The print edition of the Sarasota County Aging Network (SCAN) Annual Senior Services Directory has been a primary resource of information on goods and services for the area's older adults for a decade-and-a-half. This on-line edition has offered this information to a worldwide audience for the last 5 years.

As always, this year's print edition is free, thanks to the generous support of SCAN and our advertisers. You can help keep these services available in years to come by patronizing our advertisers and letting them know you learned about them from the SCAN Directory.

How to Use This Directory

Those invited to advertise or be listed were chosen with a view towards our opinion of their ability, and willingness, to serve the needs of our local elderly population.

To make it easy to research a particular type of product or service, listings are categorized in groupings that we felt represented the way our readers want to make comparisons.

Profit-making organizations listed paid a modest fee to be included, one indication of their dedication to serving you. These fees, and the fees for advertising, make it possible to prepare and distribute to you without charge what we hope you will find to be a useful publication.

We've attempted to verify the information presented and believe it is accurate. If you know of corrections or additions that may be needed, or have suggestions for the next edition, please contact us.

Peter Baxter
Publisher

Where to Find the SCAN Directory Print Edition

The print edition of the SCAN Directory can be found at many locations throughout Sarasota County, including:

• Comfort Keepers
  3667A Webber St., Sarasota
• HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital
  (during SCAN meetings - only )
  6400 Edgelake Dr., Sarasota
• Sarasota Memorial Hospital
• Venice Regional Medical Center
• Senior Friendship Centers
• Public Library branches
• Hospital discharge planners
• many CVS Drug Stores
• The locations of many who advertise or are listed in the directory.

Copies by Mail

To receive a copy in the mail, please send your request along
with $3.00 to cover postage and handling to:

SCAN Directory Copies—dept. w
c/o The Business Solution Group
4411 Bee Ridge Rd.r.
Sarasota FL 34233

Please make checks payable to The Business Solution Group.

Bulk copies for your location or group:

If  would like a supply to distribute from your location, please email SCANdirectory@businesssolutiongroup.com.

The Benefits of Advertising with SCAN

Defying conventional stereotypes, today's seniors represent a wide spectrum of age and activity levels. They live longer, are more active, better educated and more wealthy than previous generations. They also control more wealth, have more leisure time and spend more for travel, entertainment and investments than their juniors. They're even the fastest-growing segment of Internet users!

Whether you sell primarily to seniors or not, this lucrative local market segment can improve your bottom line. Advertising in the SCAN Directory lets you tap into this group at a price that can't be beat?for less than your annual coffee budget.

In surveys, our readers tell us that Directory advertising makes them more likely to contact?and buy from?local suppliers. They trust the Directory, and turn to it when they're shopping for goods or services.

Audited distribution means you can be sure that the Directory's 50,000 copies are reaching the promised audience.

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