One of our alliance members, Age Friendly Ridgewood, has been working with residents and village leaders on developing an age-friendly vision for the community.
A Feb. 27 article in northjersey.com outlined the important and forward-looking planning strategies being implemented by Ridgewood: The village’s new master plan is on the horizon, bringing the first full-fledged update in more than 30 years, and how to address the needs of the community’s older citizens is likely to figure prominently in the final document. The master plan’s core role is to guide the village’s decisions on zoning and land use. But it also showcases a vision for the community’s future, and residents who responded to August surveys about that vision consistently ranked aging in place as a top concern. Click Here to Read More
Ocean County Leading the Way on Multisector Planning for Aging
Ocean County has become the first governmental body in New Jersey to adopt a comprehensive plan on population aging, a fitting and crucial achievement for a county that is home to the state’s largest concentration of retirement communities. The Age-Friendly Ocean County...