Periodically, the Healthy Aging Collaborative will share news articles that mention state and local efforts to make cities, towns and regions in Massachusetts Age- and Dementia Friendly.
Check out the following articles from March to mid April 2019 on the momentum of this movement building across the state.
- Our view: A system under stress (Gloucester Daily Times)
- Our View: Older Americans hurting for housing, support (Eagle-Tribune)
- How Merrill Lynch Is Planning for Its Customers to Live to 100 (Harvard Business Review)
- Housing Options for Seniors (WCAI – Cape & Islands National Public Radio)
- How family caregiving is impacting employers and employees – Guest viewpoint (MassLive)
- Swampscott residents invited to age-friendly forum (Wicked Local – Swampscott Reporter)
- FriendshipWorks matches seniors, volunteers in Newton (Wicked Local Norwood)
- Not your grandmother’s senior center (Attleboro Sun-Chronicle)
- Teaching the Tewksbury Senior Center a few new tricks (Lowell Sun)
- Belmont enters AARP network of age-friendly states and communities (Belmont Citizen-Herald/Wicked Local)
- Fall River moves toward a dementia- and age-friendly culture (The Herald News – Fall River)
- Acushnet achieves designation as age friendly (SouthCoast Today)
- New Bedford advocates say helping the older population helps the community (SouthCoast Today)
- Road to Town Meeting; Housing Bank Forum Digs Into the Details (Vineyard Gazette)
- Belmont League of Women Voters holds forum (Belmont Citizen-Herald/Wicked Local)
- Model U.N. session in Yarmouth engages young and old (Cape Cod Times)
- AARP’s Age-Friendly Update (Fifty Plus Advocate)
- What your ZIP Code Tells you About Aging in NH (Eagle-Tribune)