{"doi":"10.18278/jep.2.1.6","title":"Mobilizing a Community to Develop a Comprehensive Master Aging Plan","abstract":"Abstract Approximately 48 million older adults, aged 65+, live in the United States and this number is expected to double in the next 40 years. In response, cities and states are creating policies and programs to support older adults and the overall experience of aging. Yet there is a lack of input from older adults about which policies and programs actually meet their needs. This case example provides information about how one community in North Carolina (NC) engaged older adults in development of their community's Master Aging Plan (MAP). These MAP efforts were guided by the World Health Organization's age‐friendly framework. Community members and key stakeholders participated in an assessment of community assets and needs through surveys ( n =860), focus groups ( n =13, with 63 participants), and key stakeholder interviews ( n =34). A comprehensive list of community needs and assets was created from the assessment and organized using the age‐friendly framework. To endorse or refine findings and establish priorities, community members provided additional input during two community‐wide listening sessions. Armed with findings from the assessment, community members, organizational leaders, and governmental stakeholders came together in workgroups around each domain of the age‐friendly framework to create Orange County's Master Aging Plan. Orange County, NC's experience with collaborative community engagement can serve as a guide for other communities seeking to involve community members in development of their own Master Aging Plan. Policy implications include incentive mechanisms to encourage age‐friendly community planning and broad engagement of both community members and leaders.","journal":"Journal of Elder Policy","year":2022,"id":308708,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9414,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1003517,"name":"Ryan Lavalley","orcid":"0000-0002-2891-9671","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1003518,"name":"Cassandra Dictus","orcid":"0000-0002-1776-773X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1003928,"name":"Janice Tyler","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":419311,"name":"Cherie Rosemond","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":603254,"name":"Sallie D. Allgood","orcid":"0000-0002-0329-4572","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":23,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:33:07.132912Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}