Aging Atlanta
Aging Atlanta is a partnership of 50 public, private and nonprofit organizations in the Atlanta region to create an age-friendly community in the region. In our vision, the region is a place where all older adults and caregivers know how to access services, where services are flexible and affordable, where providers communicate and collaborate and where the community's values and resources support community-based care. To achieve this vision, Aging Atlanta is implementing the following strategies:
- A public awareness campaign to educate residents and local decision-makers about the regional and personal impact of the growing older adult population
- Outreach to improve older adults' and caregivers' ability to access services.
- Use of information and other technologies to improve care coordination.
- Implementation of neighborhood-based service delivery models to test their efficiency, quality and cost-effectiveness.
- Use of GIS mapping technology to analyze the efficiency of the current community-based care system.
- Increased outreach to underserved older adults, including Asian, Hispanic and gay and lesbian older adults.
Aging Atlanta will change the way we do business in the region, empowering consumers, increasing resources dedicated to older adults and creating a more efficient and effective system of long-term care and supportive services to better serve the needs of current and future older adults. Funding for Aging Atlanta comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Community Partnerships for Older Adults initiative.
Initial Strategies
- Livable Communities for All: Providing assistance to local governments interested in designing communities which make it possible for local residents to age in place.
- Web-based Care Collaboration: Care Options - Care Options is an online care coordination system that notifies providers of a change in a client’s status and provides an online forum for case managers.
- Post-discharge Management Initiative: To reduce hospital readmissions among older adults, Aging Atlanta has developed a post-discharge management program with Grady Hospital.
- Neighborhood Service Model: Aging Atlanta is working in East Point and Toco Hills to improve housing, transportation and public safety. A transportation voucher program, successfully tested in East Point, will roll out to other communities in 2006.
- Reaching Isolated Older Adults: Aging Atlanta has conducted a door-to-door outreach campaign, targeting isolated older adults in South Fulton County. Aging Atlanta is now working in North Fulton to organize older adults and their concerns about long term community livability.
Aging Atlanta: A Community Partnership to Improve the Lives of Older Adults (PowerPoint)
To learn more about this initiative, contact us at the Atlanta Regional Commission 404.463.3224.
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