Great Places at Any Age
Age-Friendly New Jersey is a growing alliance of advocates and change-makers dedicated to making the communities where we live, work, and play better for longer, healthier, and more equitable lives. Leaders of age-friendly community initiatives in Bergen, Essex, Morris, Somerset, Passaic, and Union counties regularly participate in our alliance, whose advocacy and coalition-building is steered by New Jersey Advocates for Aging Well, in collaboration with local philanthropies and the Rutgers Hub for Aging Collaboration at the School of Social Work.
Age Friendly Success Stories
AFNJ Has Common Ground with Mayors Wellness Campaign
April 23, 2026 @ 7:00 am
Health and wellness are underpinnings of the age-friendly movement. Working to make a community more livable for people of all ages, therefore, can and should align with efforts to make a community’s residents healthier. That’s why the next in-person meeting of the...
An Age-Friendly New Jersey Needs an Age-Friendly Economy
April 23, 2026 @ 7:00 am
Making New Jersey an age-friendly state is not just the work of government. Businesses, employers, developers and others in the private sector must be invested in the goal of creating an age-friendly economy in which everyone can thrive. Rooting out ageist hiring...
Goodbye and Thanks to a Pioneering Age-Friendly Advocate
April 23, 2026 @ 7:00 am
One of the founders of the Age-Friendly NJ alliance – Renie Rich Carniol – retired from her longtime post as director of the Grotta Fund for Older Adults last month, leaving behind a legacy of progress on aging issues at the local and state levels. Carniol...
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