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The Age-Friendly Ocean County project is underway, and a plan for Ocean County will be launched in June 2026. To receive occasional updates, please sign up for our mailing list.
The Ocean County Office of Senior Services and the Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) Program of Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County have been funded by the Division of Aging Services at the New Jersey Department of Human Services to implement the Age-Friendly Ocean County grant project. This project aims to assess, plan, and develop local age-friendly initiatives that support older adults’ health and well-being and advance tangible, sustainable policy, system, and environmental transformations. This 15-month project will promote public, private, and cross-sector partnerships between County leaders and engage older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers to participate in an accessible, culturally responsive, and linguistically appropriate community needs assessment to identify strategies and best practices to improve communities for older adults and enable residents to remain in their homes as they age.
- Public Flyer – PDF English Version
- Professional Flyer – PDF English Version
Age-Friendly Ocean County has the following objectives:
- Form a cross-sector, County Advisory Committee, including older residents, that guides age-friendly engagement, assessment, and action planning-working closely with the Principal Investigator and Project Director and reporting to the Ocean County Board of Commissioners;
- Facilitate community assessments in the form of surveys, town halls, and review of existing survey data;
- Launch a county-wide communications campaign to familiarize people with Age-Friendly Ocean County and enhance broad representation of Ocean County’s residents and civic leaders in community assessment activities and action planning;
- Formulate an action plan based on stakeholder engagement and assessment insights, with an emphasis on identifying municipal readiness for age-friendly action planning at the local level; and
- Disseminate Ocean County’s work for awareness among key stakeholders, as well as potential replication in other Counties, and sharing process and outcomes evaluation through academic publication.
For more information, contact Dr. Kathleen Cullinen (County Agent III, Assistant Professor; Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County): cullinen@njaes.rutgers.edu, 732-349-1247.