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Commissioner outlines DFTA's approach to service planning and cohort-based needs
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Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez explains DFTA's approach to monitoring services, fiscal stewardship, and planning for the needs of different age cohorts within the older adult population. She emphasizes the importance of re-envisioning services based on data and changing demographics.
- DFTA is constantly monitoring essential services and aiming to be good fiscal stewards.
- The agency is using data from a recent survey to help re-envision services for a growing and changing population.
- The Commissioner highlights the need to consider four different age cohorts within the older adult population, each with distinct needs.
- She reaffirms DFTA's commitment to a community care plan.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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We're using, we're constantly monitoring what are the essential services.
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We're constantly monitoring how to be good fiscal stewards.
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And we're also now taking the opportunity to look at services and see what we can re envision.
0:32:22
I think that using the data that we get from the survey that we've received to get the voice of the older adult will also help us look at how we re envision services to meet the needs of this growing and changing population.
0:32:40
The one thing I want to say is that when we look at aging services, I'm going off a script here a bit, but when we look at aging services we have to look at four cohorts, right?
0:32:53
Not, you know, is not one monolithic.
0:32:56
You know, you go from 60 to 102 if you're blessed.
0:33:01
And so each one of those cohorts, I consider there four cohorts, the early 60s and then the 70s and then the seven up to 75 and then there's gonna be the 85 plus.
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And then those cohorts all require different needs.
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But what we are not, will not change is our commitment to a community care plan.