AGENCY TESTIMONY
Vision for an age-inclusive New York City
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3 min
The Commissioner outlines NYC Aging's vision for an age-inclusive New York City, emphasizing the goal of delaying or avoiding reliance on institutional care for older adults. This vision aims to create a city where older adults can enjoy cultural and social benefits while receiving necessary support services.
- Focus on enabling older adults to benefit from the city's cultural, art, and entertainment offerings
- Emphasis on providing supports, care, and services to allow older adults to live at home with dignity
- Recognition of the diverse language and cultural needs of older New Yorkers
- Commitment to avoiding institutional care when possible
- Discussion of the physical, mental, and social benefits of aging in place
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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At the same time, NYC Aging also developed vision for an age inclusive New York with the goal of delaying and or avoiding entirely the reliance on institutional care as an option for older adults.
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Again, I'm gonna go off the record.
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You know that Ziv told you in the past that when these services were built, the city's composition and the nation's composition was very different.
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And so that community care was not something that people thought of intuitively, but with the multicultural rise in this country and in this city, we see that community care because that is culturally syntonic.
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With those communities where it was not an approach that may have been in the past.
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Let me go back to where my end.
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Relying on all other institutional care, New York aging revisions on New York City where older adults can benefit from all the cultural art and entertainment that the city offers coupled with supports care and services.
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To live their lives in the home and in community with dignity throughout their lifetime.
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Comprehensive community care reflects the languages and cultural needs of older New Yorkers when considering the nutritional social educational and in home care, which is a key part of this, which contributes to our continued commitment to avoid institutional care.
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When people remain at their home, they are more likely and this is data driven information.
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They are more likely to physically thrive for longer periods of time than if they were placed in an institutional care.
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Their mental health also remains stronger when receiving services and support in community rather than in institutions.
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The community also benefits from having to to having older adults aging in place because they're also an economic support for communities.
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Remaining at home allows older adults to continue to be socially connected and bolster their communities through high level of faith based and civic engagement.
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Not only are these social community benefits to older adults remaining in their homes, longer, but there are also economic impacts for promoting community care as well.
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While living in the communities, they help build old they're living in the communities, they help build.
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Older adults are spending money locally.
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Reinvesting in that community.
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Supporting a person at home also helps to decrease avoidable hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and unnecessary nursing home stays.
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Overall, the investment as a councilwoman and chairwoman, Appleie said, cost $32,000 to keep someone in the home with community care support while institutional care is $154,000 per adult annually.
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From a public finance perspective, what would you prefer?
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This reflects that was off the record desk.
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This reflects
