Orange County Master Aging Plan
"Building Aging-Friendly Communities in Orange"
for the Five-Year Period
January 1, 2007-December 31, 2011
Background
Goals
Attachments
Credits
Background
Recognizing that the aging process of its residents impacts all aspects of Orange County, including its governmental and community services, and in view of the future historic shift to a dramatically older community, on June 23, 2005, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) approved a process for updating Orange County’s Master Aging Plan (MAP) for a five-year period, from 2007-11.
Goals
The MAP goals were to guide the preparation of the plan by a commissioner-appointed task force:
1 To develop and implement a Master Aging Plan (MAP) that provides a comprehensive and coordinated delivery of community services to older adults who have different levels of functional capacity throughout their life spans
2 To promote an aging-friendly community as part of a smart growth policy for all, and
3 To develop a county-wide plan that integrates the resources of the many public and private community partners, including the Triangle United Way.
Attachments
1 MAP Update 2007-11: Time Line Process
2 MAP Update 2007-11: Public Input and Buy-in Schedule
3 MAP Update 2007-11:Input Survey on Preliminary Goals, Objectives & Bill of Rights
4 Orange County Bill of Rights for Older Persons (Proposed BOCC) Adoption
5 MAP Recommendation: Aging-Friendly Communities by Orange Co. Government
6 Brochure: Livable and Senior-Friendly Communities (N.C. Div. of Aging and Adult Services)
7 Chart: Orange Co. Population Projections by Age, Gender and Race – 2007-30
8 Orange County Aging Profile -2002 (N.C. Div. of Aging and Adult Services)
10 Chart: Orange Co. Older Population Characteristics Distribution by Townships, 2000
11 Chart: Orange Co. Older Population, Towns and Rural Areas Distribution, 2000
Credits
Adopted by the Orange County Board of County Commissioners May 15, 2007
Prepared by the Master Aging Task Force, Pat Sprigg and Florence Soltys, Co-chairs
Staffed by Orange County Department on Aging, Jerry M. Passmore, Director