The New York City Council’s Committee on Aging on Monday held a long overdue hearing to better understand what’s happening with the Community Care Plan for
older adults. What’s happening is obvious: the city’s Department of Aging has not received the funding it needs to fully implement what could be a brilliant model for making New York City a better place to age.
I know how important it is for this plan to succeed. At Encore Community Services, the organization I lead, we have close to 1,300 registered homebound people who get home-delivered meals, but one meal a day five days a week is not enough. We are funded by the city to match only 150 of those people with friendly visitors, although more than 90 percent of them live alone.
Polling shows that older adults want to remain at home and in their communities. But they may face impaired mobility, health challenges, economic insecurity because of a reliance on low-paying government programs and require unique housing support and in-home services.
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