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Erie, PA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: HomeFit Modifications
Description: This project will offer free home modifications to older adults, including installation of grab bars, handheld shower heads, lighting fixtures and window air conditioners.
Columbus, OH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: HomeFit Modifications
Description: This project will provide bathroom modifications to older tenants living with arthritis, making their rental homes age friendly. Modifications include adding tub-mount grab bars, shower seats and toilet safety frames.
South Euclid, OH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: HomeFit Modifications
Description: This project will teach fall prevention strategies to older adults living in the Cleveland suburbs. Participants will also receive safety kits.
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Natick, MA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017
Project Category: Trails
Description: This community engagement initiative sought to identify solutions to allow older adults and people with mobility issues to use off-road trails in Natick. Project organizers met with town staff ahead of two focus groups with older adults, who shared their experiences with local trails. Additionally, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council created an online survey to collect more feedback. Older adults said their main concerns were access to bathrooms, personal safety, clear signage, availability of parking near trailheads, even walking surfaces and benches to sit on. MAPC then held a placemaking event at the Natick Community-Senior Center. Attendees could walk along a prototype trail with photos of planned upgrades and hear from MAPC staff. Participants also had a chance to share their personal stories about the things they've discovered while hiking. The result was a list of practical, low-cost action items the town can use to improve Natick's pathways.
Watertown, MA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Housing stability
Description: This eviction prevention project will offer financial assistance to older adult tenants, which they can put toward rent, home modifications and cleaning services. The city will also provide help with managing medications, obtaining legal referrals and accessing community resources.
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