Tempe, Arizona Print

Joined the AARP Age-Friendly Network:
4/23/2020

Lead Agency: City of Tempe Human Services Department

Government Agency

Action Plan Download

Tempe developed its action plan with an inclusive and multilayered approach. The age-friendly team was formulated to include older adults, caregivers, professionals, care providers, city leadership and staff, and community volunteers. After extensive outreach to determine community needs, the plan commits to improving programs, and policies around the eight domains of livability and adding to older adults' quality of life.

Action Plan Highlights

  1. Transportation

    Promote mobility options in older adults through an age-friendly marketing campaign that will better communicate available transition options.

  2. Housing

    Ensure that older adults are aware of community- and partner-led housing supports for older adults facing housing insecurity.

  3. Respect and Inclusion

    Expanding the Connect Tempe program to include Improve technical confidence and decrease feeling of isolation in older adults by supporting and technology training and providing laptops, high-speed internet, and age-friendly technology classes.

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Nearby AARP Community Challenge Grantees

Chicas Por La Causa, Inc.

Phoenix, AZ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017

Project Category: Public Spaces

Description: Funding was provided for the installation of a crosswalk near a busy, six-lane intersection in the citys Maryvale neighborhood

City of Tempe, Office of Strategic Management and Diversity with the Commission on Disability Concerns

Tempe, AZ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018

Project Category: Public Spaces

Description: This grant helped increase the connectivity between people and services by improving access to audible communications of seniors and people who use hearing devices by installation of Loops in four public meeting rooms.

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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