Agenda - 09-10-20; Item 6 - Advisory Board on Aging – Appointment Discussion

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Page 2 of 2 Holly Meschko Other Comments: This application was current on:1/4/2020 Date Printed:1/6/2020 Boards/Commissions appointments: Advisory Board on Aging Background, education and experience relevant to this board: I am aging, and it is quite a transition! Reasons for wanting to serve on this board: I live in affordable housing with other aging residents. On a daily basis, I see the challenges that the aging population faces, but the general population is unaware of; transportation, food shopping (affordability) and preparation, laundry, the inability to afford entertainment, cable, telephone, internet, etc. and basics such as quarters for laundry. Conflict of Interest: Contribution to the diversity of viewpoints on this board: The diversity of opinion I believe I would bring to the Aging Board or any other board, is my life experiences, which is this:: I am 63. In addition to experiencing the aging process, I have a rare disease that mainly affects women. I moved into an affordable apartment complex for residents age 55 and over after living in my own home in Ohio for 28 years. I see the daily struggles that many residents experience; loneliness, boredom, financial difficulty, difficulty preparing a meal, inability to get out (drive), being last in the lives of their children whom they raised, sadness, and, unfortunately, an unwillingness by many to accept diversity and differences in others, etc. I am also a grandmother to a bi-racial special needs teenage boy who's on the autism spectrum who's experienced bullying in school. 20