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Pillsbury United Communities – Oak Park Center wins assistance for older adult services

courtesy of Lake Line

June 28, 2008

Pillsbury United Communities – Oak Park Center has been named by the Alliance for Children and Families to receive mentoring assistance to enhance quality-aging services. Pillsbury United Communities – Oak Park Center was one of 10 agencies across the United States selected though a competitive, national process to receive the grant.

The grant is part of the New Age of Aging, a five-year initiative of the Alliance for Children and Families designed to help prepare human service organizations throughout North America to best provide services for older adults as the vast baby boom generation ages. The five-year, $2.6 million project is funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies.

Pillsbury United Communities – Oak Park Center was selected to receive mentoring support because it is interested in aging issues and wants to enhance current aging services or gain competency in the field. Pillsbury United Communities – Oak Park Center has been matched with Metropolitan Family Services of Portland, OR, which is an agency that has extensive experience in developing and providing services for Oak Park Center’s identified areas of growth. In the coming year, the agencies will work together to establish goals and take action for expanding Oak Park Center’s efforts in serving older adults.

“This opportunity puts Pillsbury United Communities and Oak Park in a strong position to move forward in expanding and strengthening services for older adults in north Minneapolis,” said Tony Wagner, President of Pillsbury United Communities. “We are proud to have this opportunity to help meet the tremendous need of serving older adults.”

According to the most recent U.S. Census projections, 71.5 million Americans will reach age 65 by 2030, double the number in 2003. By 2050 that figure will grow to 86.7 million, at which point the population over age 65 will be more than 20 percent of the total. The aging boom will create a need for more human services for older adults, while the character of this generation will likely require new approaches and new paradigms for serving the aging population.

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