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for older adult services and to solidify funding for Senior Times and provide funding for sustaining informational services. Connie Mullinix said that she applauds the effort to get into the plan to do a comnwnity survey.. She hopes that we will work very strongly with Healthy Orange and the Health Department and would propose that this be added to the report. Myra Austin accepted this change. Barry .Jacobs asked if we ever steer providers to senior communities in terms of health care.. He went to the opening of a new community called Asbury Crossing which is across from Mebane Lumber and they will have 140-160 owner occupied senior units and they have space within the community for a clinic.. Myra Austin said Chat we have never done anything like steer a doctor to a particular community. Florence Soltys said that this concept would need to be studied.. Perhaps someone like Piedmont Health would be interested in providing this service for a community. Comlie Mullinix mentioned that there may be a program at NC State which would provide funding for an on-site doctor. Ann .Johnson said that it seems to her that it would be worthwhile to include as a recommendation that a relationship with the County Planning Deparhnent needs to be developed so we would not be hearing about this new development after it has already been approved. The time to meet with them would have been when it was being planned.. .Jack Chestnut said that in a couple of cases the Advisory Board on Aging has been asked to review plans for new development and have offered comments. Barry .Jacobs agreed with Ann .Johnson and noted for the record that this development was approved by Mebane. The County will try to work with Mebane on Joint Planning sometime in the future. Jerry Passmore said that they approve of support services within the community. The issue is transportation for other services that will need to be reviewed and worked out, He would like to have a planning group look at these developments and look at several issues including human services and transportation.. .Janice Tyler clarified that they are asking for new positions for the new senior centers and Chese are noC included in the current budget so they will have to go back to Che County Commissioners as startup positions. .Jack Chestnut said that the Advisory Board on Aging has approved these new positions for the new Senior Center. B, Moderately Impaired Fwlctional Group -Kate Barrett Kate Barrett gave this report, The draft report dated April 12, 2006 is hereby made a part of these minutes by reference. The five top priority issues are (1) lack of mental health services, (2) isolation and loneliness, (.3) lack of case management services, (4) lack of collaboration with the faitJt communities and (5) dementia. Throughout all The group meetings they had, Che lack of information was mentioned -marketing and getting the word out. The f rst goal under isolation and loneliness is to establish a comprehensive database of county seniors, The ideas mentioned were centered on working with Emergency Management and the Department of Social Services to identify the seniors who need services. The second goal is to advertise the Dept. on Aging as a portal for all information and issues r°egarding seniors, The third goal deals with identifying nontraditional ways to seek out seniors,. The fourth goal is to establish formal relationships and encourage coordination between existing agencies. The fifth goal emphasizes the importance of making the new senior' centers welcoming and totally accessible to seniors with disabilities. Kate Barrett said that if we build the senior centers with accommodations which are inviting, the people will come. The sixth goal involves conducting a countywide campaign to get churches and other organizations to provide funding for frail seniors who cannot afford personal emergency response systems. The seventh goal is an extension of the current Friend to Friend program whereby trained