QUESTION
What would it take for NYC Aging to extend services to formerly incarcerated adults aged 50-59?
2:02:05
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The NYC Department for the Aging is open to discussions with the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice on providing services to formerly incarcerated older adults aged 50-59.
- The department acknowledges the unique aging process of incarcerated individuals and the need for gap services.
- Dialogues with the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice are necessary to explore potential solutions.
- The issue is increasingly recognized, especially the accelerated aging experienced by those incarcerated.
- There is an emphasis on the need for advocacy at the federal level to address this issue.
Crystal Hudson
2:02:05
And I'm I'm just gonna touch on incarcerated and formally incarcerated older adults for a second due to the impact of incarceration Adults in prison are considered older adults when they are aged fifty and up.
2:02:16
Yet, most of NYC aging services starts at age sixty, and I know that's also federally mandated.
2:02:22
But what would it take programmatically or fiscally for NYC Aging to extend services to formally incarcerated older adults who are between fifty fifty nine years old.
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
2:02:33
The conversation we would have to have with Mach J, with the mayor's office of criminal justice, to see what kind of gap services can be provided.
2:02:43
It's an issue that has raised more and more particularly with the conversation that if you've been incarcerated even though you're fifty.
2:02:53
Right?
2:02:54
Chronologically, you're not fifty.
2:02:56
Every other sense of the words Right.
2:02:58
Which are really aged in.
2:03:00
And it's a conversation that we really need to look at.
2:03:03
And it's also a conversation for advocacy at the federal level.
Crystal Hudson
2:03:06
Absolutely.
2:03:10
Okay.
