| We have identified four core priority goals and several integrative goals that together make up our four-year strategic plan. When implemented, this plan will improve supports for older adults and their caregiver. What follows is a summary of the plan’s goals: |
| Priority Goals |
| These goals reflect our belief that a comprehensive long-term care and supportive services system must rest solidly on a multi-faceted foundation of support. |
| Health Care |
| Strengthen the relationship between older adults and the health care system to improve health status and decrease health risk. |
| Mental and Cognitive Health |
| Increase awareness and reduce the negative impact of mental illness and cognitive impairment on older adults, caregivers and the larger community. |
| Housing and Homelessness |
| Increase the stock of affordable and supportive housing for older adults, support older adult homeowners, and promote actions to eradicate homelessness. |
| Social Services |
| Promote a continuum of culturally-competent, community-based social services that complements other supports (i.e. housing, health care, etc.) and allows vulnerable older adults to remain safely in the setting of their choice for as long as possible. |
| Integrative Goals |
| These goals include a variety of important issues that must be addressed if success is to be achieved in our core priority areas. |
| Centralized Access to Information: Increase awareness of and improve access to long-term care and supportive services among older adults, care partners, and service providers. |
| On-Going Data Collection and Analysis: Use technology to ensure the availability of and access to regular and reliable data on older adults in Boston for planning, program development, fundraising and advocacy purposes. |
| Advocacy: Enhance consumer/grassroots advocacy on issues affecting older adults. |
| Business Partnerships: Increase the knowledge and build the capacity of community businesses to understand and respond to the needs of older adults and their care partners. |
| Media, Public Education and Marketing: Utilize media and public education tactics to advance the issue-specific goals and objectives of our strategic plan and to promote increased attention and response to aging issues in the larger community. |
| Workforce Development: Promote the development of a qualified, multi-disciplinary workforce to address the current and future needs of older adults and care partners. |
| Accessible Transportation: Build on past and current efforts to ensure an efficient and accessible transportation system for older adults in Boston. |
| Coordinated and Targeted Funding: Promote coordinated and targeted funding of services for vulnerable older adults in Boston. |