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5 <br />Activities and Accomplishments: 2008-09 <br />1. None- Graduate students and Dept. on Aging staff were not available to work on this objective. <br />Recommendation for 2010: <br />1. Recruit professional retired volunteers by RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program) to <br />develop an assessment/audit tool for evaluating governmental departments' current policies and <br />practices in promoting an aging-friendly county government. Once completed, the audit tool <br />would be tested and evaluated on a limited number of county departments before widespread <br />distribution. The workgroup would be under the guidance of the Department on Aging Director. <br />11 MAP Work Plan for 2008-09 <br />A. Introduction and Implementation. Process <br />The Master Aging Plan for 2007-11 covers 9 overall goals, 45 specific objectives and 173 <br />strategies recommended to accomplish those objectives. The MAP objectives have all been <br />prioritized under each goal with 1 being rated the highest. In order to have a manageable plan, <br />the updated MAP reduced the number of goal areas and objectives, but increased the list of <br />potential strategies for consideration during the five-year implementation period. <br />New objectives or modification of existing ones will be recommended annually by the County <br />Aging Advisory Board and County Department on Aging. The MAP annual report is provided <br />to the BOCC, the towns and other community groups for their information, review and <br />comment. This MAP report covers the years 2007 to December, 2009 activities, <br />accomplishments and recommendations for 2010. <br />B: Work Plan Activities`and Accomplishments <br />1. Focus: A11 ~Ider Adults <br />Goal A: Inforrnation~Access- Enhance information & assistance options for all older <br />persons and their families who need access to services, especially those most in need. <br />Objective A-1: Improve marketing and evaluation of existing Information and <br />assistance services. (Broadly defined) <br />Lead Organization (s): Department on Aging-PAC with TJCOG-AAA , NC CareLink <br />&Triangle United Way 211 <br />Activities Accomplishments and Recommendations: 2007-08 <br />1. Orange County has worked in 2007-08 with NC CareLink in providing local resource/ service <br />information for the creation of a statewide database for agency and individual citizen access. <br />3 <br />