Elder Issues SubCommittee

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• 2007/2008
• Elder Issues Sub-Committee
• Proposed Projects

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Goal 1 Expand Sustainable Wellness and Safety
Activities for Elders

• Objectives
• 1. Continue to expand partnership opportunities
  with Miami-Dade County departments, the Alliance
  for Aging and other elder services providers
• 2. Continue to provide free comprehensive
  wellness and safety through a venue of special
  activities including health fairs, domino
  tournaments, and walking clubs
• 3. Continue to promote free fitness activities
  and training for elders
• 4. Continue to expand and develop wellness and
  safety programs at selected Miami-Dade Public
  Libraries

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Goal 1 Expand Sustainable Wellness and Safety
Activities for Elders

• Objectives
• 5. Explore possibility of expanding the 311
  Telephone Reassurance Program countywide to 150
  elders. At present, 311 staff contact the 62
  program participants three times a week
• 6. Hold Mother's Day and Father's Day events at
  30 senior centers countywide to celebrate healthy
  aging and recognize the contributions of elders
• 7. Hold a Grandparent's Day Event in September to
  celebrate healthy aging and recognize the
  contributions of elders

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Goal 1 Expand Sustainable Wellness and Safety
Activities for Elders

• Objectives
• 8. Explore the possibility of implementing a
  Lifeline Program at an elder residential facility
  that will encompass teaching elders how to use
  public transportation, to visit libraries and
  local grocery stores in order to learn how to
  purchase nutritious food
• 9. Golden Passports Elders on Board - Conduct
  200 events countywide in which to process Golden
  Passports for elders
• 10. Establish monthly lecture series on a variety
  of wellness and safety topics
• 11. Establish an evidence-based walking and/or
  water exercise program

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Goal 2 Provide Hurricane Preparedness and
Recovery Assistance to Low-Income Uninsured
Elders

• Objectives
• 1. Coordinate and implement a minimum of 30
  Hurricane Preparedness Fairs at senior centers
  countywide
• 2. Create and distribute 1,500 hurricane
  preparedness kits to needy elders countywide
• 3. Repair 12 homes of low-income uninsured elders
  countywide
• Promote the Rx Response Program (Medicines to
  patients in time of emergency)

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Goal 3 Provide Education and Employment
Opportunities and Workshops to Elders

• Objectives
• 1. Provide a minimum of four job fairs and
  training
• 2. Promote Medicare Fraud Prevention Program
• 3. Provide a minimum of four Identity Theft
  Prevention and Safety Workshops
• 4. Provide a minimum of four Credit Counseling
  and Budgeting Sessions
• 5. Provide a minimum of 30 demonstrations of the
  new Optical Scan voting equipment at senior
  centers countywide

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Goal 4 Promote the Health Foundations
Strategic Healthy Aging Initiative

• Objective
• 1. Engage members of the Elder Issues
  Sub-Committee and elder services providers in
  future activities of the Strategic Healthy Aging
  Initiative

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Goal 5 Participate in State and Nation-Wide
Initiatives to Improve the Health of Elders

• Objective
• 1. Engage members of the Elder Issues
  Sub-Committee and elder services providers in
  future activities of the Alliance on Agings
  Improving the Health of Hispanic Elders
  Diabetes Prevention and Management Project

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Goal 6 Promote the Aging Resource Centers
Initiative and Strategic Plan of the Alliance
for Aging

• Objective
• 1. Engage members of the Elder Issues
  Sub-Committee in the Miami-Dade County Aging
  Resource Centers Initiative and Strategic Plan of
  the Alliance for Aging.

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Goal 7 Assist the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services with the Promotion of the New
Preventive Health Benefits

• Objective
• 1. Through the SHINE Program, educate Miami-Dade
  elders and caregivers on the new Preventative
  Health Benefits
• 2. Assist the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
  Services with their promotional campaign on
  health preventive benefits and medical fraud
  prevention
• 3. Work closely with the Miami-Dade Public
  Library System to distribute the promotional
  information

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