Age-Friendly Forsyth (AFF) is a community initiative that connects, informs, and engages aging adults and community partners to create a livable community through collaborative planning and action, with the vision that aging adults in Forsyth County are living their best lives. Focus areas of the initiative include:

• Physical and Mental Health
• Financial Health
• Housing and Safety
• Accessibility and Mobility
• Support Network
• Empowerment and Engagement

Currently AFF is in its second year of operation, with early activities including a comprehensive research phase where baseline data was collected across a variety of indicators within the six key focus areas of research of the initiative, followed by an intensive planning phase that included a variety of organizational partners such as healthcare, and other nonprofits, corporate, education, and philanthropic agencies, as well as community members. The Age-Friendly Forsyth Community Report serves as Forsyth County’s age-friendly assessment. For more information on Age-Friendly Forsyth please visit www.agefriendlyforsyth.org or contact Theresa Hoffman-Makar at theresa@forsythfutures.org.