Volunteer Opportunties Available to Improve and Expand Services to Older Adults In Your Community

• Choose Your Level of Involvement
• Attend monthly meetings to share your ideas
• Plan and coordinate a “one-time” team project
• Distribute flyers to libraries, park districts and churches
• Make phone calls to local businesses or organizations
• Schedule a speaker for a community presentation
• Staff an exhibit table with a friend at a local health fair

What is Aging Well?
Aging Well is dedicated to working with communities to create an environment in which people can age well. Aging Well is an intergenerational partnership which begain in 2001. Today there are 16 community action teams in greater Lyons Township.

The Aging Well partnership is composed of older adults, local government, service providers, lawyers, bankers, police and others. Community action teams work together to develop projects that meet the needs of their local communities.

To join or start an action team in your community contact Suburban Area Agency on Aging at (708) 383-0258.

Aging Well is an integral part of Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPFOA) – a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A project of the Suburban Area Agency on Aging, Aging Well is supported locally by The Scarle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust, Community Memorial Foudnation and the Township of Lyons.

• Do you have ideas about how to make your community “elder-friendly?”
• Can you devote a few hours a month to improve and expand services for older adults in your community?
• Do you have life experience and skills to share?
• Would you like to meet people who share your interest in older adults?

If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, consider becoming a Community Action Team Volunteer!