Age-Friendly Tucson Plan

FiveYear Plan for Community & Health Services

Goal A Increase services and supports that facilitate aging in place. Recommendation 1 Support efforts to train and recruit home care and health care workers. • Collect input from health care employers regarding their talent development needs. • Create scope of work to develop website. • Build website. • Maintain and update website and publicize it to various user groups in the community.

• Facilitate meeting between Tucson Fire, Tucson Police and End of Life Care Partnership leadership to discuss end of life care planning campaign. • Identify methodology for first responder participation and location of completed advance directives, prescription drug information, and emergency pet information in the home. • Train City of Tucson Fire, Police, and PSCD Departments in established methodology. • Create handouts and publicize methodology to community partners participating in end of life care planning campaign.

Responsible Party for Implementation

• Talent Development Subcommittee of the Greater Tucson Healthcare Sector Partnership

Suggested Partners for Implementation

• Pima County One Stop • Pima Community College • Pima Council on Aging • Home Care Agencies • Mercy Care • Banner Health • Hospitals • El Rio Health • Pima Medical Institute

Responsible Parties for Implementation

• City of Tucson Fire Department • City of Tucson Police Department • End of Life Care Partnership

Suggested Partners for Implementation

Recommendation 2 Promote first responders' participation in community-wide end of life care planning campaign.

• Pima Council on Aging • Partner Organizations of the End of Life Care Partnership, led by the UnitedWay of Tucson and Southern Arizona

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