Lifelong Elizabeth: Age-Friendly Community Planning

Research, Publications, and Reports
January 21, 2016

Funded by the Grotta Foundation, this project supports the Lifelong Elizabeth initiative  of Jewish Family Services (JFS) of Central Jersey in a study of health outcomes and factors associated with the senior citizen population in the City of Elizabeth.

Since 2016, the Planning Healthy Communities Initiative has assisted with:

  • The development and analysis of an online survey
  • Providing technical assistance to JFS planning of focus groups
  • Compiling and analyzing socioeconomic and geographic data into a series of maps in both English and Spanish
  • Assessing the suitability of public spaces for older adults
  • Creating a combined comprehensive transit map for seniors

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The formal BLOUSTEIN SCHOOL CONVOCATION ceremony will recognize each graduate individually with pomp and circumstance.  Students will cross the stage and have their names read as they are recognized. Seating is general […]

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Implications of Robotics for Public Policy

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This presentation offers a systematic analysis of the emerging routes by which applications of embodied artificial intelligence—robotics—elicit public policy responses.