Ten years ago, our community made a bold commitment: to become a place where people of all ages can live, thrive, and age with dignity and purpose. Guided by the World Health Organization’s Age-Friendly framework, we set out to create a more inclusive, supportive, and accessible environment for older adults, recognizing that an age-friendly community benefits everyone.
Age-Friendly communities seek to create an environment that empowers all people to live purposeful, active lives that promote inclusion and respect. It includes the combination of community members, government, business, nonprofits, and media to work together in developing services, systems and policies that enhance livability for people of all ages and abilities. The Age-Friendly Initiative is a journey, not a destination. It a cycle of continuous quality improvement.
Click Here to view the Age Friendly Sarasota Five Year Progress Report.
Aging System Coordination
The role of the Aging System Coordinator is to support and monitor community-based programs in Sarasota County and to enhance community collaborations and partnerships that address aging and age-related initiatives. This includes the Age-Friendly Sarasota/Community for All Ages Initiative.
Susan Berger
Aging System Coordinator
Health & Human Services
941-861-2558
sberger@scgov.net
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