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MCOA Leads Dementia Friendly MA, Offering Resources and Grants
MCOA is the state lead for the Dementia Friendly Massachusetts (DFM) initiative, a community-based, grassroots movement to grow awareness, services, and infrastructure to support the lives of people living with dementia and their caregivers. Communities often choose to merge DFM goals with corresponding and overlapping goals for network membership in the Age-Friendly Massachusetts movement, which is steered by AARP-MA.
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Dining Programs Update & Free Resource
In 2024 we held three robust discussions on councils on aging dining program. These overviews brought together dozens of COAs with many questions, suggestions and desires to create or improve current options. Moving forward, MCOA will host bimonthly virtual meetings...
Healthy Aging Updates – November 5, 2024
Important HIP News Yes, it’s true. DTA announced it's lowering the monthly HIP benefit for ALL SNAP households to $20 per month, starting December 1, 2024, so the program can run all year long. The program needs $25 million annually but was only funded at $15 million...
Unique Dementia Care Models to Expand Our Sense of Possibilities
We all know what it’s like to be mired in the day-to-day demands that make it increasingly hard to see the forest for the trees and to maintain the vitality of our connection to the meaning of our work. But there are unique ideas and programs aiming to improve how we...
Massachusetts Health Care Training Forum
Chances are if you’re an Outreach Coordinator you’ve helped someone with a MassHealth application: a daunting task under any circumstance. The Massachusetts Health Care Training Forum provides regularly updated information via trainings to staff members of...
Intergenerational Digital Equity Programming that Combats Isolation
The digital divide experienced by many older adults in MA and the epidemic of loneliness have at least one relationship: access to one would alleviate the other. That is, the availability of low-cost, high-speed internet service would greatly increase human to human...