Ocean County has become the first governmental body in New Jersey to adopt a comprehensive plan on population aging, a fitting and crucial achievement for a county that is home to the state’s largest concentration of retirement communities. The Age-Friendly Ocean...
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Population aging presents both challenges and opportunities, and it’s time for New Jersey to start planning in earnest for the fast-approaching day when adults over 60 will outnumber children in the Garden State. A bill recently introduced in the New Jersey Legi...
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Dementia Friendly movements have launched in towns and counties across the United States during the past decade, paralleling efforts to spur the growth of age-friendly initiatives. The two movements operate independently of one another, but many advocates call for more ...
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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 ...
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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 biases...
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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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The age-friendly movement in New Jersey deepened and widened in 2025, so much so that our alliance is starting the New Year with a new name, greater statewide impact, stronger advocacy partnerships and an expanded role in mentoring new community leaders. Our alliance r...
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A state-sponsored grant program has sparked new age-friendly efforts across the Garden State, helping this decade-long movement in New Jersey take root this year in big cities, suburban counties and rural hamlets, a new report details. The report from the...
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Senior centers open many doors for those who frequent them, doors that connect older adults to social interaction, physical activities, educational programs and other essential services. They also offer a window for New Jersey’s leaders, a window into the everyd...
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Most local libraries have a children’s librarian, but what about a staff... Read More
Our Alliance is Expanding Its Geographic Reach and Mission Ten years ago, a group of community organizers, aging services providers, philanthropic leaders, academics and older-adult advocates gathered at a conference to brainstorm ways to ignite an age-friendly movement...
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A common flaw in many “how-to” guides is devoting too much time and space on the “why’ instead of the “how.” The Municipal Toolkit for Building an Age-Friendly Community written and published this spring by the leaders of Age-Friendly Ridgewood doesn’t mak...
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Age-friendly progress requires buy-in from the highest levels of state government. That’s why the organizations back-boning the Age-Friendly North Jersey alliance are also among the leaders of a new public relations campaign to make population aging a priority issue i...
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