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13 <br /> 2017®2022 Orange County Master Aging Plan <br /> standards of an age-friendly community. An The second community assessment activity was <br /> age-friendly community is a place where an electronic survey emailed to all Orange <br /> structures and services are adapted to be County government employees and a 2,000- <br /> accessible to and inclusive of older adults with person listsery maintained by the senior <br /> varying needs and capacities. Orange County centers, with a total of 860 respondents. The <br /> aims to become an age-friendly community in survey was also distributed to various <br /> all 8 domains by developing and maintaining neighborhood and association listservs. The <br /> services that foster lifelong engagement in guiding questions of the survey were 1) What <br /> community affairs, opportunities for creativity are you worried about when you thinking about <br /> and productivity, meaningful connections with aging? 2) What is Orange County already doing <br /> others, and a sense of physical and emotional well? and 3) What would you like to see <br /> wellbeing. As a result, Orange County will be happen? What are some "magic wand" ideas <br /> the ideal place to grow older and age well. you have? <br /> Cm .110,110 1010 <br /> t : los Assessmeni: Key fttC t ro ti iniermws <br /> Between May and September of 2016, the Throughout summer 2016, the OCDOA <br /> OCDOA conducted a community needs conducted 34 key informant interviews in 26 <br /> assessment, which was intended to provide agencies across Orange County. These key <br /> community members with an opportunity to informant interviews were conducted with <br /> voice their vision for aging in Orange County stakeholders in county and town government, <br /> over the next five years. The first community healthcare, faith-based organizations, and <br /> assessment activity was a series of 13 focus community services. The purpose of the key <br /> groups held at various locations throughout the informant interviews was to identify ideas and <br /> seven townships of Orange County. These focus areas of concern for the aging population <br /> groups were held in English, Mandarin, and among the different agencies in the county. In <br /> Spanish. Focus groups had a total of 63 addition to gathering useful information about <br /> participants and were held at the following Orange County's preparedness for an aging <br /> locations: population, the key informant interviews were <br /> intended to generate buy-in, foster <br /> • Robert and Pearl Seymour Center collaboration, understand how the work of the <br /> • Rogers Road Community Center OCDOA intersects with that of other <br /> • Efland-Cheeks Community Center <br /> • Maple View Farms Agricultural Center stakeholders, and formulate a comprehensive <br /> • Carrboro Century Center vision for aging in Orange County over the next <br /> • Cedar Grove Community Center five years. <br /> • Schley Grange Hall <br /> • Chapel Hill Public Library t tti Si � i �t <br /> • Jerry M. Passmore Center In its first months, the MAP Leadership <br /> • Orange County Public Library Committee determined the group structure <br /> • El Centro Hispano de Carrboro that would guide the development of the 2017- <br /> 2022 Master Aging Plan. Although the Orange <br /> County Board of County Commissioners is <br /> 7 <br />