Priority One: Provide an affordable and accessible senior-friendly transportation
system.
Priority Two: Provide accessible, affordable, specialized healthcare to seniors
available in a timely manner in order to maintain and improve health, independence
and quality of life in a safe environment.
Priority Three: Provide specialized senior-focused education and research to
seniors, providers, families, caregivers and the community as a whole.
- Establish a comprehensive assessment of programs and services addressing senior
needs in each Spartanburg community in order to prepare for the increasing demand
for senior services.
- Build on existing transportation services and find creative means of addressing
the distinctive transportation limitations and needs of seniors.
- Develop proactive services focusing on wellness and prevention, ranging from
the healthy senior to the chronically ill senior; expand the Parish Nurse Program.
- Develop a well-marketed, accessible life-long learning program that educates
seniors, service providers, families, caregivers and the community on the aging
process, available services and housing options.
Priority Four: Provide seniors access to safe, affordable and seniorfriendly
housing options.
Priority Five: Advocate, promote and facilitate policies and practices for positive
change across the community focusing on “No Senior Left Behind.”
Priority Six: Develop processes and accessible programs to connect seniors with
support, social groups for enrichment and services resulting in senior-friendly
communities.
- Develop a program that uses the “wisdom of seniors” to enhance the reading
capability of school-aged children in low-income communities.
- Develop a senior coalition made up of seniors to serve as fund raisers, consultants,
volunteers and support; support retired senior volunteer programs.
- Encourage the development of Care Connection, a community case management
- Develop and implement a “No Senior Left Behind” marketing campaign to promote
senior advocacy both locally and state-wide.
- Consider adopt-a-grandparent and adopt-a-senior programs.
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