AGENCY TESTIMONY
Collaboration between partner agencies and the NYC Cabinet for Older New Yorkers
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Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez highlights the importance of collaboration between partner agencies in implementing the Community Care Plan. She introduces the NYC Cabinet for Older New Yorkers as a key initiative to foster this collaboration.
- Establishment of the NYC Cabinet for Older New Yorkers by the mayor
- Goal to address issues affecting older adults through cross-agency collaborations
- Cabinet used to identify and address gaps in services
- Example of collaboration on public and pedestrian safety initiatives with DOT
- Development of walking tours and discussions with older adults to understand community issues
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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total coordinated cost savings of a comp compilation of services provided through New York City.
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There is also an impactful benefit to ensuring that more older adults can safely live in their homes.
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Through making improvements in apartments or buildings which promote universal design, elements so that people can age, in place, live, and thrive.
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Think about walk up buildings, and I can get to that later.
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Things that we could do to make those so people can age in place.
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The future is look the future is looking as we plan for the coming of caregiving and home home care needs, where we know that those needs will only grow.
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Our programs and services offered to older adults should go beyond older adult centers, but also should include a full compendium of needs which older adults experience throughout their lives.
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A fundamental component of the community care plan includes collaboration between partner agencies.
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And one of the things that we've done is establish a New York that this mayor has done is establish an NYC cabinet.
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For older New Yorkers because we saw the need for the component parts of government to innovate and address issues affecting older adults, to try to address problems rather than individually but through across collaborations.
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And to communicate beyond those silos that have been developed over the years.
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We were able to access care in programs that they need.
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We were able to address gaps and also things grew out of this cabinet organically.
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That collaboration addresses key goals of the community care plan by connecting a range of programs and services offered by New York City Aging and other part agencies to fit the needs of older adults.
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The community care plan was part of developing cabinet priorities and provided a framework for subcommittees to identify issues most affecting older adults.
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For example, one priority born out of the community care plan related to public and pedestrian safety.
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As older adults remain I wish to remain in their communities and continue to age in place.
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They are more susceptible to injury or death when struck by a vehicle or harmed because of issues like sidewalk and other elements on the street.
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We partnered with DOT who took they had an annual survey or this a biannual survey that that they would do.
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On pedestrian safety.
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But now we've expanded that partnership to develop walking tours and discussion with older adults from NYC aging OACs to better under understand the issues in their community and develop solutions.
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This is just one example of the cabinet initiatives, which were key to the success of the community plan.
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And it was fundamental to our outreach efforts, and this was budget neutral efforts.
