Healthy Aging Joins Forces with Community Services, MVC
The all-volunteer coalition founded in 2013 to tackle the needs of the Island’s aging population, announced last week a new collaboration.
The Martha’s Vineyard Healthy Aging Task Force is hosting a Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist three-day training workshop from April 30 to May 2 at the Harbor View Hotel.
As a working task force on the Vineyard begins to prepare for a graying population in the decades ahead, the state Secretary of Elder Services paid a visit to the Island last week to hear about their work in tackling the issue of healthy aging.
Secretary Ann Hartstein said there are unique challenges involved in creating supportive services for the elderly on the Vineyard.
The Healthy Aging Task Force presents an update on its progress in addressing key issues for baby boomers at a community meeting on May 22.
The data is clear: like the rest of the country, Martha’s Vineyard is bracing for a sharp increase in the population of older residents. The number of Vineyard residents 60 and older is growing at a faster rate then the rest of the state, and that demographic is expected to grow as the baby boomer generation gets older. Some estimates show that Island residents between 60 and 70 years of age will triple by 2020.