{"id":2450912,"date":"2019-11-09T22:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T05:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/kudos-and-kindness-from-aspen-times-readers-5\/"},"modified":"2019-11-11T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T15:07:45","slug":"kudos-and-kindness-from-aspen-times-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/kudos-and-kindness-from-aspen-times-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos and Kindness from Aspen Times readers"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

Surfing the wave of gray<\/p>\n

The Carbondale Age-Friendly Community Initiative (CAFCI) invites you to assemble at the Third Street Center from 3:30 to 6 p.m. on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a gray wave washing over America. Ever more of us are seniors over 65. In 2010, there were 4,724 in Garfield County. In 2020, we\u2019ll nearly double that number. By 2030, we\u2019ll add 5,000. In 2020, 9% of seniors will be over 85; 16% by 2030. This is personal to me, I\u2019ll join the 85-plus cohort in 2026. Who will take care of us? We had fewer children than previous generations and we\u2019re living longer. The communities we built seem unprepared for the challenges we pose.<\/p>\n

So, we have to keep taking care of one another and rebuilding our communities. Many of us don\u2019t just need services; we can and do serve others. CAFCI is working to make our community age-friendlier to all ages, including seniors without excluding anyone. Our trustees, commissions and town staff are working with us, and thanks to our partnership with Senior Matters, we\u2019re off to a good start.<\/p>\n

In June, Carbondale committed to the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities, giving us access to national and international expertise and funding. We want you to join Mayor Dan Richardson, AARP associate director Roberto Rey, Senior Matters chair John Hoffmann, CAFCI leaders and 20 organizations. We\u2019ll learn about using what\u2019s available to us from the AARP Network and talk about how to build it. Together, we\u2019ll surf the gray wave instead of floundering in it.<\/p>\n

Ron Kokish<\/p>\n

Carbondale<\/p>\n

Some love for the Times<\/p>\n

Your people are both brave and humorous. Thank you, thank you, thank you.<\/p>\n

Miles Knudson<\/p>\n

Aspen Village<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surfing the wave of gray The Carbondale Age-Friendly Community Initiative (CAFCI) invites you to assemble at the Third Street Center from 3:30 to 6 p.m. on Nov. 21. There\u2019s a gray wave washing over America. Ever more of us are seniors over 65. In 2010, there were 4,724 in Garfield County. In 2020, we\u2019ll nearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 07:22:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450952,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450912\/revisions\/2450952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}