Community Partners

  • Coastline Elderly Services
  • New Bedford Mayor’s Office
  • Mass Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  • Southcoast Health
  • New Bedford Council on Aging
  • Mass Senior Action
  • Alzheimer’s Association

Goals:

  • Review and determine best practices to better reach our aging population and increase awareness of existing community resources
  • Develop a senior communication plan

Accomplishments:

  • Developed an Age Friendly website hosted by Coastline
  • Distributed Senior Scope newspaper statewide
  • Promoted news and events in timely manner via Coastline’s Facebook page
  • Published Spanish and Portuguese translations of health news in partnership with Southcoast Health
  • Produced and shared transportation, cooking, and elder safety videos