Blueprint for Successful Aging

About the Program

Category: Human Services (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

Oakland County, as with many communities around the country, has a rapidly aging population. Since 2015, the Oakland County senior population has been greater than its population of children, and that trend is projected to continue through 2045. The Oakland County Board of Commissioners (BOC) recognizes that this demographic shift presents both challenges and opportunities for maintaining and improving the quality of life for all ages. To embrace and prepare for these changes, the Board charged its Healthy Aging Ad Hoc Committee with creating a strategic blueprint for an aging-friendly county. This blueprint provides a roadmap for the county and other stakeholders to move the community response forward with a broad set of recommended actions to improve the overall quality of life for Oakland County seniors. Through a series of town halls and a survey that used multiple types of engagement strategies, the committee collected feedback to fill information gaps and gain a better understanding of unmet needs and potentially successful strategies for addressing them. This Blueprint for Successful Aging serves as a strategic plan for Oakland County communities. It presents a comprehensive and data-driven set of ten recommendations to create system changes and positive measurable outcomes to address aging service gaps, unmet needs and opportunities.