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Gainesville on the map as age-friendly community Star Bradbury © [Rob C. Witzel/Staff photographer, File] An instructor helps a student in navigating her iPhone during a technology class teaching local seniors how to operate their Apple products in 2015 at the Senior Recreation Center in Gainesville. You may be pleasantly surprised to hear that Gainesville has opted into a nationally recognized program to be designated age-friendly by both the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities and the World Health Organization’s Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities.   As a requirement to join the Age-Friendly Community Network, Alachua County had to apply for admission into an elite group of only 384 cities nationally and only 33 communities in Florida. The organization leading this process is Elder Options, the state-designated area agency on aging, under the umbrella of the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. They administer state and federal

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