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Utah Commission on Aging outlines master plan and resources for older adults
Summary
On Utah Libraries’ podcast, Rob Anz, executive director of the Utah Commission on Aging, described a three-year rollout of a statutorily-backed master plan for aging that focuses on age-friendly communities, caregiving, financial security and technology access; he urged residents to use utahaging.org to find help.
Rob Anz, executive director of the Utah Commission on Aging, told the Utah Libraries Have You Covered podcast from the Utah State Library’s Blind and Disabled Recording Studios that the commission is implementing a three-year phase of a master plan for aging memorialized by the Legislature in 2023.
The plan, Anz said, organizes work across six priority areas: creating age-friendly environments, improving financial preparedness and security, strengthening health and education supports, promoting advanced-care planning and individual empowerment, expanding caregiving supports, and increasing access to technology and broadband across the state. “If you don't decide what your future's gonna look like, what your advanced care planning's gonna look like, someone will decide for you,” Anz said.
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