Salem for All Ages, the age-friendly initiative in Salem, Mass. that recently released its Year 5 Progress Report, is featured in a community spotlight by AARP. The feature notes Salem's accomplishments, including the launch of the Salem Skipper, an on-demand,...
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N4A, engAGED Recognize Age Strong Boston’s Civic Academy as a Best Practice for Keeping Older Adults Engaged
engAGED: The National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults is a national effort to increase social engagement among older adults. Administered by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) with funding from the U.S. Administration for Community...
Guest Blog Post: Memory Cafes Provide a Place for Friends to Stay Connected
One of the many special aspects of memory cafés is that they provide a way for friends to spend time together. Keeping friendships strong nurtures everyone: the person living with dementia, their primary care partner(s), and the friend. Yet dementia robs so many...
MassMobility: Transportation Pilots and Projects in Cape Ann, Merrimack Valley, Brookline
Building on a resource developed with our partners at MassMobility that shares examples of Age- and Dementia Friendly transportation across the state, more approaches to improving transportation options are always emerging. Here are a few such examples highlighted in...
MHAC Partner Beth Soltzberg of JF&CS Gives TEDx Presentation on Memory Cafes
MHAC is excited and proud to pass along a TEDx Talk presentation from one of our partners and Advisory Council members, Beth Soltzberg who directs the Alzheimer’s/Related Disorders Family Support Program at Jewish Family & Children’s Service in Waltham. In a...
Commonwealth Mag Publishes Op-Ed on ‘Aging in Community’
Commonwealth Magazine featured an opinion piece by President and CEO of 2Life Communities and MHAC Executive Committee Member Amy Schectman on how "aging in community" is preferable to "aging in place. The nonprofit senior living provider defines "aging in the...
MetroWest Health Foundation Offering Grants to Age- and Dementia Friendly Communities
Following up on a round of grants in Fall 2017, the Metrowest Health Foundation is once again focusing on supporting Age- and Dementia Friendly Communities in a newly released Spring 2018 Grant RFP. The last round of grants included an award to the Framingham Board of...
Member Spotlight: Lisa Krinsky, LICSW, LGBT Aging Project
Lisa Krinsky, LICSW, serves as the Director of the LGBT Aging Project. Read her full bio here. What is the LGBT Aging Project? We work to ensure that LGBT older adults and caregivers In Massachusetts have equal access to resources, services, and programs. When we...
Member Spotlight: Tamy-Feé Meneide
Tamy-Feé Meneide serves on the Executive Task Force of the Multicultural Coalition on Aging. She recently joined the Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative Executive Committee to help promote greater diversity and inclusion within the Healthy Aging Collaborative....
Member Spotlight: Dr. Milagros Abreu
Milagros Abreu, MD, MPH is the founder and Executive Director of the Latino Health Insurance Program, Inc. (LHIP), and serves as a Chair on the committee for diversity of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the executive committee of the Healthy Aging Collaborative....