Build a Longevity Ecosystem
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Objectives and Strategies
Objective 1: Strengthen partnerships with service providers, community organizations, nonprofits, academia, and the private sector to leverage public-private partnerships and support community-driven action.
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Continually assess longevity readiness across state agencies and increase cross-sector collaboration that embraces a lifespan approach to policy and service delivery.
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Improve data capture and dissemination through coordinated data systems and capacity building at the state and local level.
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Engage local communities in asset mapping, identifying opportunities to promote healthy longevity.
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Promote the adoption of the age-friendly communities model as an effective means for local governments, organizations, and community members to advance collaboration that supports healthy longevity.
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Enhance innovation and partnerships between government and community-based nonprofit organizations.
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Increase private investment that supports local age-friendly programs
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and infrastructure.
Objective 2:
Enhance multi-disciplinary prevention and response policies for elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation across state agencies.
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Review and adopt recommendations of the Task Force On Preventing and Countering Elder Abuse, including:
- Implement policies that promote justice and safeguard older adults across state- and federally-funded programs.
- Create accountability for oversight of long-term care quality and improve hospital discharge processes for at-risk adults.
- Improve systems for monitoring private and public guardianship to preserve the rights of older adults.
- Prevent fraud, cybercrime, and financial exploitation through increased oversight of powers of attorney, representative payees, and reporting from banking institutions who serve older adults.
Objective 3:
Increase the distribution of resources across state programs to historically underserved and under-resourced communities.
- Engage under-resourced communities to plan and implement programs and policies that address community needs.
- Establish criteria across agencies for state-funded grants to ensure resources are targeted to communities in need.
- Integrate a longevity lens across state equity planning and implementation to improve reach and access of services among underserved populations, including people living in or near poverty, rural communities, people living with HIV, people of color, LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, people with sight or hearing accessibility challenges, Native Americans, and those at risk of nursing home placement.
- Provide training that supports the adoption of bias-free language principles that promote the benefits and contributions of older Marylanders in all state- and federally-funded communications.
- Continue investment in sustainable growth to build community resiliency, connectivity, affordability, and vitality.
Objective 4:
Maximize the benefits of older volunteers across sectors.
- Evaluate the landscape of volunteerism in Maryland and develop
- an action plan that leverages the growing population of skilled
- older volunteers.
- Increase awareness and adoption of the neighbor-helping-neighbor Village model.
- Recruit older volunteers and multigenerational volunteer teams into coordinated service opportunities.
- Increase the number of volunteers of all ages providing support to
- older Marylanders through Maryland Corps, AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP, Long-Term Care Ombudsman, SHIP, and other programs through cross-promotion of volunteerism opportunities across state agencies.
