by Age-Friendly North Jersey | Oct 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
The goal of age-friendly community work is to achieve lasting impact. The leaders of Age-Friendly Teaneck are celebrating a concrete sign of community progress with the opening in October 2024 of a new community center that will serve as a hub of new age-friendly...
by Age-Friendly North Jersey | Sep 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Age-Friendly North Jersey | Aug 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Age-Friendly North Jersey | May 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
