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New Coalition Advocating for More Equity in NJ’s Medicaid Programs

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 ...

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AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities

The 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 Collaborations Can Make for Stronger Age-Friendly Partnerships

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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Coalition of Advocates Seeks Solutions to Caregiver Workforce Shortage

“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 State Grant Program Key Part of NJ’s Age-Friendly Blueprint

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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Improving Public Health and Making Communities Age-Friendly — Separate Missions but Similar Goals

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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Innovations for Aging in New Jersey on Display at Rutgers University’s InnovAGING NJ 2024 Summit

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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Older Americans Act Due for Re-authorization and Important Updates This Year

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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Changing the Narrative on Careers in Aging

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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Two Age-Friendly Champions to Form Stronger Bonds in the New Year

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...

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New Research Report Sheds Light on Impact of Age-Friendly Community Initiatives

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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New Push to Strengthen Advocacy on Age-Friendly Infrastructure Goals

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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Older Americans Month Events Help Raise Awareness of Age-Friendly Progress

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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