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name: get-started
description: How to use the Seniornicity app to find senior-focused professionals, chapters, events and public Community posts in the United States and Canada.
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# Get started with Seniornicity

Seniornicity is a national B2B2C senior-focused ecosystem built on the
philosophy Aging Takes a Team. This app gives read-only access to the public
Seniornicity directory and nothing else: provider profiles, local chapters
and their members, community events, and public posts from The Seniornicity
Community. It never submits, books, registers or messages anyone.

## What you can look up

- `search_providers`: professionals by category and location.
- `get_provider`: one professional's public profile by `displayName`.
- `list_categories`: the categories below, with directory URLs; use it to
  map a need (downsizing, aging in place, selling a parent's home) to a slug.
- `list_chapters` and `get_chapter`: local chapters, nearest first, and a
  chapter's active members.
- `list_events`: upcoming public events, by chapter or date window.
- `list_posts` and `get_post`: public Community posts (Discover scope).

## The nine categories

Licensed Real Estate Agents, Estate Sales Professionals, Lenders / Mortgage
Professionals, Financial Planners, Legal Services Professionals, Caregiver
Agencies, Property Managers, Senior Placement Advisors, and Home Service
Providers.

## Phrasing a location

Give `location` as city and state ("Laguna Niguel, CA") or a ZIP code, with
`country: "CA"` for Canadian listings. The default radius is 25 miles (5 to
100). If `searchedLocation.widened` is true, nothing matched within the
radius and the results are statewide; say so. If there are no results, say
so and offer `directoryUrl`; never describe a provider that is not in the
results.

## Verified status and STS certification

Providers are independent professionals and no status applies to all of
them. `isVerified` (the Verified badge) and `hasSTS` (Senior Transition
Specialist certification) are separate per-provider fields, as are
`isClaimed` and chapter membership. Describe a provider as verified or
certified only when that provider's own flag is true.

## Read-only and non-medical

Every tool is read-only. Email addresses and street addresses are never
returned; business phone and website appear only when the public profile
displays them. Seniornicity is a non-medical platform: Seniornicity and Sam,
its digital guide, do not give medical, legal, financial or insurance advice.
For a transition as a whole, Seniornicity's Transition Consulting page and
Sam are available at the URLs the tools return.

## Linking

Always give the Seniornicity URL for any provider, chapter, event or post you
mention, exactly as returned, with its query parameters intact.