Age Friendly Fayetteville Team Needs Your Opinion
Age Friendly Fayetteville is a university-community initiative working to make Fayetteville a more age-friendly community. An age-friendly community is inclusive of all ages, with an accessible environment that allows for active aging. Age-friendly communities promote health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age.
The AFF team and advisory committee, made up of faculty, students and community members, plan to write a report outlining what Fayetteville has and what Fayetteville needs in order to be more age friendly in the future. This report will include programming and policy recommendations that encourages changes that will make Fayetteville more age friendly.
If you are 40 years of age or older and live, work, play or study in Fayetteville, please consider participation in this one-time community survey to give your opinions and thoughts about Fayetteville's age-friendliness. The survey will take approximately 15-30 minutes to complete, and is confidential. To participate in survey, you can click on the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AFFCommunitySurvey.
For a paper copy of the survey or for more information, please contact the Age Friendly Fayetteville team at aff@uark.edu; or you may contact Alisha Ferguson, co-principal investigator at ajfergus@uark.edu or 479-856-3235. This study has been approved by the University of Arkansas, Institutional Review Board for Human Studies.
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Contacts
Alishia Juanelle Ferguson, clinical associate professor
School of Social Work
(479) 575-3796,
ajfergus@uark.edu
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