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Welcome to Get Connected with Nina del Rio, a weekly
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conversation about fitness, health and happenings in our community on
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one oh six point seven Light FM.
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Thanks for listening to Get Connected. Perhaps you weren't aware.
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New York State has one of the largest populations of
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adults over sixty, and the older adult population is growing
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faster than any other group. For the first time, New
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York State has proposed a master Plan for Aging. It
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is a roadmap addressing a range of issues and challenges
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focused on improving equity, dignity, and independence for older New Yorkers.
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We will find out more with Jeremy Kaplan, the executive
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director of OnCore Community Services, a twenty twenty four nonprofit trailblazer,
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and a vocal advocate for older adults and the care
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workforce that supports them. Jeremy Kaplan, good to see you again,
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Welcome back to the show.
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Oh, thank you so much for having me back. Meane,
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that's always a pleasure.
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You can find out more about the organization at ENCORENYC
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dot org and more about the plan at Plan for
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Aging dot ny dot gov. It's funny those in those
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statistics at the beginning. Jeremy Actually, we keep hearing about
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New Yorker's leaving and retiring elsewhere, but that's not the
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case for everybody. No.
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In fact, the older adult population is just skyrocketing. I mean,
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thankfully we're living longer, but we're not ready, you know.
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I think in New York State right now, the older
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adult population is over three million, and by twenty thirty,
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it's going to be over five million. And our infrastructure
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is in keeping up, and our community care resources are
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in keeping up. And I don't know, but Nina, but
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I'm getting old too. We're all with every breath we take,
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we're getting older. So we have a lot of work
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to do here in New York.
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We're going to need all these things right that we're
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going to talk about. But also the people that are
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leaving are often people with means. Right Encore is serving
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people through affordable and supportive housing, through delivering meals, through
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helping people secure their benefits. What are some of the
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you know, I mean, I just mentioned a couple, but
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what are some of the biggest challenges for older New
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Yorkers that the average person would not think about?
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Food security? Is it a big one? Many of the
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folks that we deliver meals to tell us that the
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one meal that they get from us is the only
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source of food that they have. In some cases, they're
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rationing out that meal over the course of a day.
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Many many of the folks that we work with live alone,
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so you know, their friends, their family have either moved
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away or passed away, and so social isolation is a
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big challenge. And helping people stay connected so that they're
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not lonely and so that their their minds are actively
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engaged is important. And then you know, of course, when
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people stop working, they live on a fixed income, right
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and unfortunately, the cost of living in New York City,
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in New York State is not fixed, and so we
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really need to help make our state and especially our
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city more affordable for all of us as we age.
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So the Master Plan for Aging has been in process
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for about three years. The policy making officially launched by
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an executive order by Governor Hokele in twenty twenty two.
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So this, this roadmap became a priority. You said this
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state wasn't ready, but I guess the state is looking
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at the population. Your thoughts overall of kind of the
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development and where it ended up or has ended up
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so far, yeah.
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I think it's in a way, it's it's a landmark
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achievement because it's the first, the first of its kind
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of the nation. And the plan is the plan is comprehensive,
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and it acknowledges that we don't age in a sylo right.
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We age on our transportation systems, we age in our
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grocery stores, we age in our neighborhoods, and so that,
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you know, the plan coordinates all of the various aspects
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of society. You know, it has it has proposals that
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focus on helping you stay in your home, helping make
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life more affordable, helping the people who help us as
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we get older, the caregivers and the support staff, and
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just help staying socially connected.
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How was the plan put together?
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You know, it really was a stakeholder driven and inclusive process. Right, So,
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hundreds of stakeholders around the state, including local areas on aging,
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including nonprofit organizations that work with older adults, including healthcare organizations,
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and individuals individual older adults were involved in the in
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the commission over the last three years that created this
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this MPa and which ultimately led to these one hundred
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and twenty six proposals. Now we need to narrow down
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and prioritize the proposals, but it was an incredibly inclusive process.
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Is there an overall focus and overall strategy to the plan.
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There is a focus on equity and equity in the
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sense that you know, aging is not a monolithic experience, right,
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people who are getting older in rural parts of the
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city versus people who are getting older and in New
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York City versus people who are getting older within you know,
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the rich, diverse cultural landscape that we have in our state.
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Have have different needs and the plan gets to that.
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The plan gets to the equity aspect around aging, meaning
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more dollars you know, need to be spent in different areas.
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I want to talk about some of the proposals. There
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are actually quite a few of them. It was released
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in June. Again, you can.
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Fund it at one hundred and twenty six.
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One hundred and twenty six. It's a lot of things.
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They're across nine different areas. It's housing, its affordability, it's technology.
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What was your input to the proposals?
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What struck me is again is how is how comprehensive
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you know the proposals were so that they're you know,
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there there I believe they're chunked into nine, nine distinct pillars,
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and you know, you name some of them. My input
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is is that it's just great that we're talking about it.
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I mean, the New York City Department for the Aging
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NYC Aging is the lowest funded city agency of any
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New York City department, receiving less than one half of
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one percent of the city budget. And so there is
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there's there's a there's a lot of focus in the
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in the master Plan on Aging around modernization of the
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spaces that serve older adults, modernization of our senior centers,
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modernization of our of our nutritional programs, but also resources
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that that help them, that help the workforce. Right, the
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workforce that are taking care of each of us as
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we age is a focus of this of this plan,
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as is as is technology and compatting agism and elder
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or abuse. It's truly a comprehensive plan.
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Our guest is Jeremy Kaplan. He's the executive director of
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OnCore Community Services. The mission of Encore is to provide
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care and service to the elderly of the Clinton Times
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Square Midtown communities, including those who are frail, poor, homeless,
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or home bound to help them with their daily needs
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that they might live as independently as possible. Their website
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is OnCore NYC dot org. You can find out more
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about volunteering by the way at the website as well,
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and you can find out more about the plan we're
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talking about at Plan for Aging dot ny dot gov.
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It is the New York State Master Plan for Aging.
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You're listening to get connected on one six point seven
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light FM, Amina del Rio. Let's talk about some areas
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that again you might be particularly interested in. One of
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the things you do is deliver many, many thousands of
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meals across the city. How does this plan tackle assisting
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elderly who are homebound?
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In two ways Nina One, it prioritizes food security and
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home delivered meals. Right, so, the plan includes proposals to
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increase funding for what we call in New York City
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community care right in home services, you know, services that
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we bring to people who are unable to leave their
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homes is what we call in home care, and that
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includes you know, food and nutrition. And so when the
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master Plan becomes actualized, older adults who are food and
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secure will have all of the meals that they need
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to be fully nourished. But on top of that, the
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service providers who are cooking the meals and delivering the
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meals will have more modern infrastructure. So currently there's not
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a lot of capital support to upgrade our kitchens, to
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upgrade our trucks, and most direly, our workforce. The people
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that are cooking the meals, the people that are delivering
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the meals, the people that are checking on the older
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adults who who depend on these meals are making poverty
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level wages, you know, themselves, and it's very hard to
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retain these essential staff members. And so there are quite
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a few proposals that get a debt. They get at
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supporting the workforce that takes care of older New Yorkers
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and all New Yorkers as we get older.
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You talked about that last time we spoke about the
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low wages for workers in elder care. These are wages
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that are set by contracts with the city and state
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that keep people sort of at the poverty level, which
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is the same as the people they're serving. So in
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what ways does the plan address that?
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Well, you know, there are proposals that are aimed at
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at educational institutions, so enhancing programs that train you know,
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professionals to get into older adult services. There are proposals
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that are aimed at enhancing contracts that fund not not
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for providence and healthcare organizations that employ these individuals. And
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there are proposals that that are aimed at at public
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awareness campaigns so that, you know, when when young people
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graduate high school and go to college, or when young
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people enter the workforce, they hear and see messages about
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aging and about jobs in aging that make those jobs
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appear as attractive as they truly are and as meaningful
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as as they truly are, so that we're not dealt
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with such a such a you know, an an ageous
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perspective in terms in terms of the workforce.
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What is one of the ways that the plan tackles acessibility.
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One thing that struck me is that it tackles accessibility
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within people's homes. You know, one of the reasons, one
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a significant reason why why people are unable to live
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at home is because they, you know, their homes simply
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aren't aren't accessible. And so there are proposals aimed at
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at installing grab bars right into into into people's showers,
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at installing ramps within buildings, incentivizing developers and grading developers
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on the accessibility of people's homes. And there are also
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proposals around making our transportation systems more accessible, more bus routes,
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more accessible buses, and modernizing our subway in our infrastructure systems. Now, look,
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this is going to be if it were fully when
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fully realized, a multi billion dollar investment right over many years.
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We're talking about modernizing the New York City, the New
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York City transportation system, let alone transportation systems are around
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the state, on top of all of these other coordinated
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pillars around around aging. And so the key question, I
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believe is going to be, you know, are we going
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to put our money where our mouths are? You know,
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is there fuel in the tank for this plan?
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Well, that's the question. So we have the proposal. You
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can read it online. You can read about all these points.
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It's a little legally, but you can read it all.
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So what is the next step for the implementation.
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The next step is to is to fund it. In
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year one, there was a down payment so to speak,
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the governor. The governor included forty five million dollars in
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the state's budget, which was passed by the legislature to
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minimize wait lists throughout the state, waitlists for case management
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services and other in home services. And then this came
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from one of the proposals that was suggested in the MPa.
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But clearly it's just it's just a starting point. There
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is a campaign, you know, there's a campaign that's led
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by Live on Me Work, which is a coalition. It's
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an advocacy organization that consists of a coalition of aging
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service providers, nonprofits like on Core Community Services and hundreds
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of other nonprofits like on Core Community Services around the state.
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And AID Strong New York is a multi billion dollar
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campaign that's aligned with with the MPa. And you know,
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we need our elected officials to put the money where
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their mouths are, you know, so to speak, and we
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need everyday New Yorkers to really push for that right
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to expect accountability and an execution of this very detailed
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and very groundbreaking master plan on aging that we've developed.
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So what could someone listening do when you talk about
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pressing for it to go forward?
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Call the Governor's office and thank her for the plan.
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And call your local state senator, call your your your
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your local state assembly person and say you know what
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I was reading through the MPa, I'm and I'm quite
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impressed you As an older adult or as somebody who
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aspires to be an older adult, I am concerned about
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how I'm going to stay in my home. I am
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concerned about how I'm going to care for my older
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parent or my grandparent. So thank you for the plan. Now,
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now let's fund it.
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So the goodness is we have the planet covers so
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many different areas well, hope to see what gets implemented.
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Anything else you'd like to add.
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Well, this is such great progress in the sense that
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our state government is recognizing the need to make this
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type of investment for older New Yorkers. We can't just
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depend on government right as individuals, we have to take
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a look and reach out and ask our neighbors, are
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centers throughout New York City there are three hundred and
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twenty of them, and I can tell you at on
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Core Community Services, we need volunteers. We need people to
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help us deliver meals, We need people to help socialize
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situation and we need donations. Nonprofit organizations need philanthropic support
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Community Services. You can find out more at Encore NYC
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dot org. You can find out about the Plan for
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Aging at Planned Foraging dot ny dot gov. Jeremy Kaplan
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Oh, thank you Nina for having me.
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Welcome to Get Connected with Nina del Rio, a weekly
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conversation about fitness, health and happenings in our community on
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Thanks for listening to Get Connected. Perhaps you weren't aware.
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New York State has one of the largest populations of
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adults over sixty, and the older adult population is growing
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faster than any other group. For the first time, New
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York State has proposed a master Plan for Aging. It
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is a roadmap addressing a range of issues and challenges
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focused on improving equity, dignity, and independence for older New Yorkers.
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We will find out more with Jeremy Kaplan, the executive
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director of OnCore Community Services, a twenty twenty four nonprofit trailblazer,
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and a vocal advocate for older adults and the care
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workforce that supports them. Jeremy Kaplan, good to see you again,
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Welcome back to the show.
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Oh, thank you so much for having me back. Meane,
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that's always a pleasure.
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You can find out more about the organization at ENCORENYC
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dot org and more about the plan at Plan for
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Aging dot ny dot gov. It's funny those in those
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statistics at the beginning. Jeremy Actually, we keep hearing about
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New Yorker's leaving and retiring elsewhere, but that's not the
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case for everybody. No.
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In fact, the older adult population is just skyrocketing. I mean,
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thankfully we're living longer, but we're not ready, you know.
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I think in New York State right now, the older
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adult population is over three million, and by twenty thirty,
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it's going to be over five million. And our infrastructure
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is in keeping up, and our community care resources are
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in keeping up. And I don't know, but Nina, but
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I'm getting old too. We're all with every breath we take,
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we're getting older. So we have a lot of work
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to do here in New York.
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We're going to need all these things right that we're
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going to talk about. But also the people that are
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leaving are often people with means. Right Encore is serving
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people through affordable and supportive housing, through delivering meals, through
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helping people secure their benefits. What are some of the
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you know, I mean, I just mentioned a couple, but
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what are some of the biggest challenges for older New
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Yorkers that the average person would not think about?
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Food security? Is it a big one? Many of the
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folks that we deliver meals to tell us that the
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one meal that they get from us is the only
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source of food that they have. In some cases, they're
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rationing out that meal over the course of a day.
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so you know, their friends, their family have either moved
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away or passed away, and so social isolation is a
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big challenge. And helping people stay connected so that they're
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not lonely and so that their their minds are actively
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engaged is important. And then you know, of course, when
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people stop working, they live on a fixed income, right
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and unfortunately, the cost of living in New York City,
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in New York State is not fixed, and so we
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really need to help make our state and especially our
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city more affordable for all of us as we age.
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So the Master Plan for Aging has been in process
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for about three years. The policy making officially launched by
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an executive order by Governor Hokele in twenty twenty two.
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state wasn't ready, but I guess the state is looking
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at the population. Your thoughts overall of kind of the
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development and where it ended up or has ended up
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I think it's in a way, it's it's a landmark
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achievement because it's the first, the first of its kind
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of the nation. And the plan is the plan is comprehensive,
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and it acknowledges that we don't age in a sylo right.
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grocery stores, we age in our neighborhoods, and so that,
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you know, the plan coordinates all of the various aspects
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of society. You know, it has it has proposals that
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focus on helping you stay in your home, helping make
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life more affordable, helping the people who help us as
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we get older, the caregivers and the support staff, and
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just help staying socially connected.
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How was the plan put together?
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hundreds of stakeholders around the state, including local areas on aging,
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including nonprofit organizations that work with older adults, including healthcare organizations,
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and individuals individual older adults were involved in the in
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the commission over the last three years that created this
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this MPa and which ultimately led to these one hundred
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and twenty six proposals. Now we need to narrow down
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and prioritize the proposals, but it was an incredibly inclusive process.
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Is there an overall focus and overall strategy to the plan.
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There is a focus on equity and equity in the
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sense that you know, aging is not a monolithic experience, right,
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people who are getting older in rural parts of the
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city versus people who are getting older and in New
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York City versus people who are getting older within you know,
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the rich, diverse cultural landscape that we have in our state.
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Have have different needs and the plan gets to that.
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The plan gets to the equity aspect around aging, meaning
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more dollars you know, need to be spent in different areas.
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I want to talk about some of the proposals. There
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are actually quite a few of them. It was released
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in June. Again, you can.
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Fund it at one hundred and twenty six.
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One hundred and twenty six. It's a lot of things.
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They're across nine different areas. It's housing, its affordability, it's technology.
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What was your input to the proposals?
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What struck me is again is how is how comprehensive
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you know the proposals were so that they're you know,
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there there I believe they're chunked into nine, nine distinct pillars,
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and you know, you name some of them. My input
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is is that it's just great that we're talking about it.
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I mean, the New York City Department for the Aging
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NYC Aging is the lowest funded city agency of any
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New York City department, receiving less than one half of
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one percent of the city budget. And so there is
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there's there's a there's a lot of focus in the
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in the master Plan on Aging around modernization of the
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spaces that serve older adults, modernization of our senior centers,
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modernization of our of our nutritional programs, but also resources
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that that help them, that help the workforce. Right, the
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workforce that are taking care of each of us as
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we age is a focus of this of this plan,
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as is as is technology and compatting agism and elder
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or abuse. It's truly a comprehensive plan.
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Our guest is Jeremy Kaplan. He's the executive director of
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OnCore Community Services. The mission of Encore is to provide
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care and service to the elderly of the Clinton Times
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Square Midtown communities, including those who are frail, poor, homeless,
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or home bound to help them with their daily needs
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that they might live as independently as possible. Their website
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is OnCore NYC dot org. You can find out more
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about volunteering by the way at the website as well,
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and you can find out more about the plan we're
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talking about at Plan for Aging dot ny dot gov.
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It is the New York State Master Plan for Aging.
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You're listening to get connected on one six point seven
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light FM, Amina del Rio. Let's talk about some areas
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that again you might be particularly interested in. One of
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the things you do is deliver many, many thousands of
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meals across the city. How does this plan tackle assisting
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elderly who are homebound?
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In two ways Nina One, it prioritizes food security and
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home delivered meals. Right, so, the plan includes proposals to
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increase funding for what we call in New York City
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community care right in home services, you know, services that
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we bring to people who are unable to leave their
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homes is what we call in home care, and that
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includes you know, food and nutrition. And so when the
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master Plan becomes actualized, older adults who are food and
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secure will have all of the meals that they need
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to be fully nourished. But on top of that, the
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service providers who are cooking the meals and delivering the
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meals will have more modern infrastructure. So currently there's not
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a lot of capital support to upgrade our kitchens, to
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upgrade our trucks, and most direly, our workforce. The people
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that are cooking the meals, the people that are delivering
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the meals, the people that are checking on the older
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adults who who depend on these meals are making poverty
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level wages, you know, themselves, and it's very hard to
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retain these essential staff members. And so there are quite
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a few proposals that get a debt. They get at
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supporting the workforce that takes care of older New Yorkers
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and all New Yorkers as we get older.
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You talked about that last time we spoke about the
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low wages for workers in elder care. These are wages
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that are set by contracts with the city and state
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that keep people sort of at the poverty level, which
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is the same as the people they're serving. So in
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what ways does the plan address that?
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at educational institutions, so enhancing programs that train you know,
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professionals to get into older adult services. There are proposals
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that are aimed at enhancing contracts that fund not not
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for providence and healthcare organizations that employ these individuals. And
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there are proposals that that are aimed at at public
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awareness campaigns so that, you know, when when young people
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graduate high school and go to college, or when young
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people enter the workforce, they hear and see messages about
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aging and about jobs in aging that make those jobs
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appear as attractive as they truly are and as meaningful
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as as they truly are, so that we're not dealt
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with such a such a you know, an an ageous
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perspective in terms in terms of the workforce.
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What is one of the ways that the plan tackles acessibility.
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within people's homes. You know, one of the reasons, one
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a significant reason why why people are unable to live
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at home is because they, you know, their homes simply
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aren't aren't accessible. And so there are proposals aimed at
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at installing grab bars right into into into people's showers,
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at installing ramps within buildings, incentivizing developers and grading developers
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on the accessibility of people's homes. And there are also
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proposals around making our transportation systems more accessible, more bus routes,
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more accessible buses, and modernizing our subway in our infrastructure systems. Now, look,
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this is going to be if it were fully when
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fully realized, a multi billion dollar investment right over many years.
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We're talking about modernizing the New York City, the New
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York City transportation system, let alone transportation systems are around
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the state, on top of all of these other coordinated
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pillars around around aging. And so the key question, I
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believe is going to be, you know, are we going
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to put our money where our mouths are? You know,
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is there fuel in the tank for this plan?
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can read it online. You can read about all these points.
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It's a little legally, but you can read it all.
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The next step is to is to fund it. In
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year one, there was a down payment so to speak,
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the governor. The governor included forty five million dollars in
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the state's budget, which was passed by the legislature to
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minimize wait lists throughout the state, waitlists for case management
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services and other in home services. And then this came
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from one of the proposals that was suggested in the MPa.
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But clearly it's just it's just a starting point. There
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is a campaign, you know, there's a campaign that's led
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by Live on Me Work, which is a coalition. It's
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an advocacy organization that consists of a coalition of aging
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service providers, nonprofits like on Core Community Services and hundreds
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of other nonprofits like on Core Community Services around the state.
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And AID Strong New York is a multi billion dollar
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campaign that's aligned with with the MPa. And you know,
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we need our elected officials to put the money where
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their mouths are, you know, so to speak, and we
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need everyday New Yorkers to really push for that right
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to expect accountability and an execution of this very detailed
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and very groundbreaking master plan on aging that we've developed.
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So what could someone listening do when you talk about
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pressing for it to go forward?
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Call the Governor's office and thank her for the plan.
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And call your local state senator, call your your your
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your local state assembly person and say you know what
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I was reading through the MPa, I'm and I'm quite
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impressed you As an older adult or as somebody who
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aspires to be an older adult, I am concerned about
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how I'm going to stay in my home. I am
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concerned about how I'm going to care for my older
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parent or my grandparent. So thank you for the plan. Now,
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now let's fund it.
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So the goodness is we have the planet covers so
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many different areas well, hope to see what gets implemented.
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Anything else you'd like to add.
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Well, this is such great progress in the sense that
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our state government is recognizing the need to make this
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type of investment for older New Yorkers. We can't just
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depend on government right as individuals, we have to take
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a look and reach out and ask our neighbors, are
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you okay? Go across the you know, if you're living
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in the city, knock on the door across from you
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and check on that elderly person you know that's across
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from you, and ask them if they need any help.
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Do they have the food that they need? You know?
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Look up your local senior center. All of our seat
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centers throughout New York City there are three hundred and
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twenty of them, and I can tell you at on
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Core Community Services, we need volunteers. We need people to
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help us deliver meals, We need people to help socialize
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with older adults. This is an all hands on deck
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situation and we need donations. Nonprofit organizations need philanthropic support
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and individual support so that we can continue the work
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that we do.
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And there are many ways to volunteer with on Core
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Community Services. You can find out more at Encore NYC
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dot org. You can find out about the Plan for
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Aging at Planned Foraging dot ny dot gov. Jeremy Kaplan
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is the executive director of OnCore Community Services. Thank you
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for being on Get Connected.
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Oh, thank you Nina for having me.
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