A campaign is underway to urge lawmakers to make New Jersey’s Medicaid program more equitable and enable more older adults and residents with disabilities to receive the care they need in less-restrictive and less-costly home and community settings. A robust group of ...
Read MoreThe state of New Jersey, several counties and nearly 2 dozen municipalities have joined the AARP Network of Age Friendly Communitieshttps://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/network-age-friendly-communities/. Learn more here:...
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Police departments might seem unlikely partners in an age-friendly coalition. Not so in the City of Garfield, where Sgt. Jeffrey Stewart, commander of the Garfield Police Department’s Community Affairs Division, has served as the project coordinator for Generations fo...
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“Jobs that Care.” “Make a Difference.” Those are the headlines emblazoned on social media posts, radio ads and the sides of New Jersey buses, as part of a new marketing campaign highlighting the emotional rewards of working in what’s known as the “direct-car...
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New Jersey’s decade-old age-friendly movement is gaining new momentum as the state commits $5.5 million to a new grant program aimed at encouraging more Garden State communities to join in the effort. The new grant program was announced in concert with the official re...
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Creating environments for healthy aging is the bedrock of age-friendly community work. It’s not surprising, therefore, that efforts to strengthen New Jersey’s public health system intersect in many ways with efforts to seed and sustain age-friendly community initiat...
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The Hub for Aging Collaboration at the Rutgers University School of Social Work hosted the inaugural InnovAGING NJ 2024 Summit on March 22, 2024. This free virtual event served as a showcase of innovative programs, practices, and partnerships changing norms for aging in...
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This year could mark the first major revisions in more than 35 years to the rules governing the Older Americans Act, the federal law that backbones many of the community-level programs that provide meals, senior center programs, transportation, home-care and much more. ...
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Among the many harmful stereotypes about aging, perhaps one of the most injurious is the notion that a career spent working with older adults is less fulfilling than one spent working with younger people. Leaders of the Age-Friendly Teaneck community initiative are tryi...
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NJAAW Stepping Up Its Role in Administering Age-Friendly North Jersey Alliance Ever-growing and always-evolving partnerships are the hallmark of the age-friendly movement. In that spirit, Age-Friendly North Jersey (AFNJ) has recently strengthened its working relationshi...
Read More Progress within a social movement can be hard to measure, but the age-friendly community initiatives in northern New Jersey were formed with the idea that changes should be evaluated as they’re undertaken and strategies tested as they’re tried. In keeping with that ...
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Housing, transportation, and parkland are the essential building blocks in any community. So it stands to reason that advocating for improvements to all three is essential to the work of building age-friendly communities. Veteran age-friendly community leaders can attes...
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New Jersey’s Age-Friendly Movement seeks to work across boundaries of all types. So this year’s Older Americans Month theme could not have been a more fitting tie-in to our community-building efforts: Aging Unbound. 2023 marked the 60th anniversary of the commemorat...
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