Growing Old in Our Neighborhoods: A Public Education Program for Community Response

摘要

The document serves as the final report of a project designed to disseminate information at the national and community levels to professional, trade and voluntary associations, religious groups and trade unions whose members, through their professional lives or voluntary interests, interact with older persons in our society. The project had the following specific objectives: To develop and distribute 200 copies of a public education program, including a videotape and facilitator's guide, for use on a national and community level; To make educational presentations to senior executives of selected groups; To bring 75 - 100 national leaders of these groups together for a one-day conference with expert gerontologists, senior advocates, business leaders and community program directors; To write and publish articles, challenging the implicit ageism of many groups and suggesting opportunities for responding to the needs of the elderly in the community; To use the videotape and facilitator's guide in 30 to 40 communities and make copies available, at minimal cost; To prepare a special issue of the American Society on Aging's (ASA's) quarterly journal, 'Generations,' on the theme of Collaborative Community Response to Aging.