Wake County Aging Plan

Strategies  
    Accessible and Affordable Healthcare
  1. Increase availability and accessibility of community health care through partnerships
    between
  2. Public/private-sector organizations offering comprehensive health screenings and
    education.
  3. Increase public awareness of health care information resources.
  4. Work with area transportation providers to address the issue of adequate access to
    healthcare resources.
  5. Explore ways to offer health insurance coverage to more low-income seniors.
  6. Develop and maintain a Senior Health resource Unit to provide information to the
    public on healthcare issues, coordinate community screenings, and promote fitness
    and nutrition programs.  

    Prescription Medications
  1. Explore ways to substantially increase the number of individuals who can obtain
    medications through patient assistance programs.

Health Promotion:  Physical Activity
  1. Increase the number of seniors who have access to, and participate in, physical
    activity programs.
  2. Explore the possibility of developing additional senior centers in Raleigh and outlying
  3. communities.

Health Promotion:  Nutrition
  1. Expand the current Wake County elderly nutrition program to better meet the needs
    of at-risk adults being served.
  2. Identify additional programs/services that would help assure that senior adults have
    adequate food supplies and access to hot nutritious meals.

Health Promotion:  Influenza and Pneumonia Immunizations
  1. Increase rates of influenza and pneumonococcal immunizations among seniors.

Dementia Care
  1. Develop capacity for crisis intervention, in both community and hospital settings, to
    stabilize persons with dementia/Alzheimer’s Disease.
  2. Increase public awareness of the need to separate persons with Alzheimer’s
    Disease from persons with mental illness in care settings.
  3. Improve care of persons with dementia/Alzheimer’s disease through caregiver
    education.
Triangle J Council
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