Salem For All Ages
About
Salem For All Ages is the City of Salem’s age-friendly initiative, created in 2016 to help residents of every age and ability age in place, stay active and live independently. It highlights resources for older adults and others while guiding the city’s planning around the eight areas that AARP and the World Health Organization use to define an age-friendly community, from housing and transportation to social participation, health services and civic engagement.
Salem joined AARP’s national network of age-friendly communities in early 2016, the first city on the North Shore to do so and only the third in Massachusetts. The city then submitted its action plan in November 2016, prepared with the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston. Work on the plan included public listening sessions, focus groups and a survey of more than 400 residents over 50, and the plan called for a permanent stakeholder group to monitor how it is carried out.
What to Know
- The action plan was submitted under Mayor Kim Driscoll.
- A task force and leadership council guide the initiative.
- Each domain of the plan includes a vision statement, recommendations and specific action steps.
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