AGE FRIENDLY RIDGEWOOD

Age Friendly Ridgewood is a collaborative team of grant-funded part-time staff (Beth Abbott, Sheila Brogan and Sue Ullrich) and many volunteers whose goal is to promote awareness of the needs of adults 55 and over when designing projects that will ultimately improve the Ridgewood community. We started this effort by conducting a needs assessment survey of Ridgewood residents 55 and older from October 2015 through February 2016 and a follow-up survey was conducted in 2019... Age Friendly Ridgewood is working to bring older adults into the conversation as Ridgewood plans for the future - A great place to grow up and grow old... We are extremely grateful for funding support from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation which enabled us to publicize the survey to increase the response rate, to hire Montclair State University CREEHS to analyze the data and publish the results, to conduct focus groups to review the survey data, and to identify action plans. Their continued support will help..