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- Everyone plays a role in making Illinois a great place to live, work, raise families, and grow older.
- EngAging Illinois will establish priorities and policies to make sure our State, counties, cities, and towns are great places to grow up AND grow old.
- EngAging Illinois will serve all of us — no matter where we live, how much we earn, what we look like, what we believe, or our abilities — and enable us to age with a sense of security and possibility.
Social Media Content & Graphics
Creating EngAging Illinois, our exciting multisector plan for aging, has been an extraordinary team effort. Now we need to ensure every Illinoisan knows about it! Below are content and assets that you can share with your networks and help spread the word.
If you need anything else to support your outreach efforts, please email us at Aging.MultisectorPlan@illinois.gov.
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Official Press Release & Social Media Content
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Talking Points
- The Plan speaks to our aspirations as older people — to stay connected to our friends, colleagues, families, and community and to live with a sense of purpose and pride.
- And it’s not just about older people; it’s about how all of us will live work, move, and care for one another as more of us live longer.
- The Plan provides a proactive, hopeful, solutions-oriented agenda to improve quality of life at any age.
- Creating livable and connected communities
- Ensuring health for all ages
- Investing in caregiving
- Affording aging
- Life expectancy can vary by more than 20 years in communities just a few miles apart in Illinois.
- Poverty rates among older adults have increased 82% over the past 15 years, and one in five Black older adults live at or below poverty level compared to one in 13 white older adults.
- EngAging Illinois offers an array of programs and approaches that will ensure everyone has an opportunity to age well.
- Government cannot create an age-friendly Illinois on its own. We must be creative, and we must work together.
- Every sector touches the lives of older people and people with disabilities in some way. The Plan depends on energetic and engaged participation of all levels of government, the business community, education, health and social service providers, philanthropy, community leaders, as well as people of all ages in cities and towns throughout the state.
- As the number of older people grows dramatically in the next decade, the Plan represents a pivotal opportunity to reinvent our approach to aging and streamline and enhance aging services in Illinois.
- EngAging Illinois will inevitably evolve over time to meet the moment and incorporate new opportunities raised by developments in scientific research, advances in technology, and program innovations.
*Please feel free to modify these talking points to fit the priorities of your organization.
