Age Wave Resources
The Age Wave Resources section of the ODP Web site is the central repository for thought leadership on everything from A to Z on the age wave and strategies for preparedness.
Here you will find:
- Age wave impact topic discussions on transportation, healthcare services, religion, aging services, civic engagement, etc.
- Best practices from within and outside of Virginia
- A comprehensive list of outside links to Web resources.
- ODP papers and reports
Colorado and Virginia: The Tale of Two States
The Older Dominion Partnership and Silverprint Colorado have strengthened their alliance to share experiences and lessons learned. For many years Virginia and Colorado have been at the forefront of statewide age wave planning.
The two state's age wave planning approaches are unique, complimentary and more robust across the board in planning for the future. It is amazing how independently the two initiatives, ODP and Silverprint Colorado, have developed a similar new paradigm for planning for an aging population - down to the vision, goals and working groups. This has been successfully documented by Silverprint's Janice Blancard in a July 2009 CSA Journal article.
Read the CSA Journal article (PDF)
Suggested ways that ODP and Silverprint Colorado can collaborate include:
- Developing a common lexicon and concepts for developing a public/private strategic planning framework
- Identifying priorities we hold in common
- Identifying outcomes and measures for success in addressing our priorities
- Shortening the learning curve by sharing research, resources, partnership recruitment methods, etc.
- Developing joint funding opportunities
- Disseminating our work together at conferences, papers, etc.
Both organizations are fully behind the idea of the two states forging ahead together -- working together can exponentially increase each's effectiveness and efficiency in reaching common goals.