The Live Well Springfield Age-Friendly Cities Initiative works with community based partners and city residents to assess the racial inequities and access issues for older adults in the age-friendly domains of housing, transportation, health, and community services. 

Through funding from Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Fund and Tufts Health Plan Foundation, now Point32 Foundation, we're working to assess the health impacts of older adults living with a CORI. The Health Impact Assessment report highlights the lived disparities of having a CORI and provides recommendations for policy and practice change. We aligned this detailed report with lived experience of resident advisors who are most impacted by this barrier. 

As the nation’s first triple designated city, the coalition is working with age-friendly partners to advance health care at home options for older adults while addressing digital divide barriers. Motivations for an Age-Friendly Ecosystem stem from the findings of the 2019 Age Friendly City Report  and Terry Fulmer's Moving Towards a Global Age-Friendly Ecosystem report. 

State Representative Bud Williams presented the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts with a citation at our Age-Friendly Health & Tech Showcase, in the end of May, 2023, for advancing the goals of our age-friendly initiative in Springfield. 

The Live Well Springfield (LWS) Age-Friendly City initiative aims to make a community where older adults can thrive and lead healthy, productive lives. Check out our work over the past few years, in the 2019 Age Friendly City Report. See our most recent Age Friendly Transportation and Housing Assessment findings.

For more information, contact Samantha Hamilton, Live Well Springfield Coalition Director, via email.