Auburn, Maine Print

Joined the AARP Age-Friendly Network:
6/19/2018

Lead Agency: Auburn Age Friendly Community

Age-Friendly Taskforce/Advisory Council/Commission

Action Plan Download

Auburn developed its action plan based primarily on data collected during a community survey. The plan focuses on transportation access for older adults without a personal vehicle and facilitating home maintenance for older adults to better allow them to age in place. Initiatives include things like mowing grass, shoveling snow, removing or installing air conditioners and handyman jobs. Auburn has also prioritized an age-friendly business strategy, including an age-friendly business designation, and involving local businesses in age-friendly planning processes to improve social connectivity and bolster the local economy.

Action Plan Highlights

  1. Outdoor Spaces

    Improve public spaces by increasing access to rest places and walking areas, installing friendship benches to provide additional seating and help reduce social isolation, and advocating for increased crosswalk safety and local business education programs to city council.

  2. Transportation

    Work with local partners to increase access to affordable and accessible transportation options for non-drivers and collaborate with city council to increase enforcement of winter snow removal regulations.

  3. Housing

    Promote options for aging in place by increase access to home repair and home maintenance services by educating residents on existing programs and increasing access to low-income independent living housing options.

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Nearby AARP Community Challenge Grantees

Advisory Committee on Aging

Bowdoinham, ME

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017

Project Category: Public Spaces

Description: Raised planters were constructed for residents who had stopped gardening because they were unable to keep a traditional, in-the-ground garden.

Age-Friendly Communities of the Lower Kennebec

Bath, ME

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021

Project Category: Public places

Description: This project will create a purposeful spacefor active engagement and seatingforall agesby installingoutdoor chess/checker tablesthroughout apublic plazaand along Main Street corridors.

ABOUT THE AARP COMMUNITY CHALLENGE

Launched in 2017, the annual AARP Community Challenge provides small grants to local governments and nonprofits in order to fund quick-action, ready-to-implement projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages.

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AARP Maine State Office

53 Baxter Boulevard
Suite 202
Portland, ME 04101
United States

Phone: 866-554-5380
Fax: 207-775-5727
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