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Parks, Recreation and Community Services
AGE FRIENDLY EVANSTON!
January 05, 2015
Age Friendly Evanston! Initiatives Annual Update
Christina FerraroAssistant Director of Community Services
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AGE FRIENDLY EVANSTON!
o Evanston
a place for all ages
a community where older adults can live
LONGER, BETTER, HEALTHIER lives
a place for all to grow up and grow old!
o Age Friendly is a new paradigm
encourages healthy aging
not a process to complain about aging
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)- This program is an international effort to help
prepare for a global demographic trend: the
rapid aging of populations.
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WHO NETWORK OF AGE FRIENDLY CITIES
IN USAAustin, TX
Bowling Green, KY
Brookhaven Brookline, MA
Chemung Co, NY
Chicago, IL
Des Moines, IA
Great Neck Plaza, NY
Honolulu, HI
Los Altos, CA
Macon-Bibb County, GA
New York, NY
Philadelphia, PA
Portland, OR
Roseville, CA
St. Louis County, MO
Los Altos Hills, CA
Washington DC
Wichita, KS
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AGE FRIENDLY EVANSTON! TASKFORCEAppointed by Mayor Tisdahl in December 2013, the nine (9) member
taskforce is developing the action plan to ensure Evanston is an Age
Friendly community
1. Chairperson, Susan Cherco
2. Transportation, Helen Gagel
3. Social Participation, Jo-Ann Cromer
4. Respect & Social Inclusion, Dorothy Strong
5. Housing, Wayne Heimbach
6. Outdoor Spaces & Buildings, Susan Canter
7. Communication & Information, Martha Holmes
8. Community & Health Services, John Barfield
9. Civic Participation & Employment, Isidro Lucas
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HOW IS THIS BEING ACCOMPLISHED?
- Assess current age friendliness
- Ask community members: “What affects your ability to live your best life in
Evanston?”
- Develop three-year city-wide action plan for implementation based on the
objectives of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Age Friendly
Communities Program
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PROMOTING AN "AGE-IN-EVERYTHING"
LENS ACROSS ALL ASPECTS OF CITY LIFE
- Preliminary proposals may include linking to other city plans
- EPLAN (Evanston Project for the Local Assessment of Needs)
- ECAP (Evanston Climate Action Plan)
- multi-modal mobility plan and other global movements
- Walkable Neighborhoods
- Sustainable Communities- Complete Streets
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COMMUNITY INPUT PROCESS
- Community outreach
- Data collection efforts
- Community meetings
- Surveys – print, electronic
- Roundtable discussions
- Focus groups
- Working groups
- Additional survey being prepared for distribution in the spring
- Results of the survey will be analyzed and will lay the groundwork for the
effort moving forward
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HOUSING
This committee of nearly 20 individuals
Land trusts
Shared housing
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs)
Supportive housing (similar to assisted living)
Copin House affordable senior housing for grandparents raising
grandchildren in the Woodlawn community
Center on Halsted LGBT-friendly affordable senior housing in Lakeview
Design Evanston Charrette Process
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OUTDOOR SPACES & BUILDINGSThis committee of nearly 10 individuals
Park Tour
Adopt-a-Park program
Indoor walking options for year round walking
Benches in all parks that don’t have them already and in business districts
throughout Evanston
Evanston Bike Safety
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TRANSPORTATION
This committee of nearly 10 individuals
Critical Incident Reports
Biggest need is medical visit transportation
Current design to get in/out Evanston not around Evanston
East / west travel is difficult
East of Chicago Ave has lack of transportation
Bike Lanes
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SOCIAL PARTICIPATION
CIVIC PARTICIPATION & EMPLOYMENT
RESPECT & SOCIAL INCLUSION
These three committees are working together due to much overlap
Their preliminary findings …..
Need more information about activities (communication)
Need to get there (transportation)
Educate youth to respect older adults
Employment: more for young people!
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT & HEALTH SERVICES
Outreach at St. Nicholas Church, Evanston
Established Advisory Committee* to Community Support & Health Services
to establish links with health care and social service providers
Duplication of services vs greater need
Hospital senior services moved from Evanston
More geriatricians needed in Evanston
Presence Health accepts Medicaid only for Psychiatry
- * Ellen Browne, Jessica Feldman, Sandi Johnson and Connie Wood
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COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION
Technology is not for all … yet!
311, texting, website
Levy Center
Foster Club
Residential Boards
Evanston Roundtable
Evanston Review
Evanston Now
Evanston Public Library
Word of mouth
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SCHEDULE
Years 1 and 2: July 2014 - 2016
ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOP PLAN
The survey will be out in the spring
This time next year we should be close to having a draft action plan
Years 3, 4 and 5: July 2016 – 2019
IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION
Oversee the implementation of the Age Friendly Action Plan approved
by the City Council.
Continual improvement
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SUMMARY
Making progress
Great foundation with dedicated group
greater awareness of aging in the community
Bottom-up approach
Spring survey more quantitative data for sufficient recommendations
Spring 2016 action plan to City Council
Summer 2016 action plan to World Health Organization
