RD391 - Biennial Progress Report on Virginia's Four-Year Plan for Aging Services


Executive Summary:
In 2009, a workgroup of aging advocates, educators, service providers, and state agency representatives developed Virginia’s Four-Year Plan for Aging Services (available at http://www.vda.virginia.gov/pdfdocs/FourYearPlanForAgingServices-RD461-2009.pdf ) to address the needs and leverage the strengths of a rapidly aging population. The plan recognized the great variability among older adults, a continuum that ranges from those most in need of assistance to those representing natural resources, with time and talents largely untapped.

A Biennial Progress Report was developed in 2011 to serve as an addendum to the original Four-Year Plan (available at http://www.vda.virginia.gov/pdfdocs/FourYearPlanUpdate-RD417-2011.pdf ) and to reflect the steps that had been taken to move forward with the workgroup’s recommendations. In addition, an amendment to the Code of Virginia in 2012 shifted the due date for the next Four-Year Plan to 2015, in order to gain efficiencies by aligning it with a similar Federal requirement to submit a four-year report on aging services to the Administration for Community Living (ACL). In the interim, the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) presents this additional Biennial Progress Report to provide insight into advancements made over the past two years.