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From left to right: Keiva Hummel, program director of the National Civic League; Lorie Williams, manager of the Summit County Community and Senior Center; Erin Fisher, director of Vintage; Mary Kenyon, CEO of Impact Marketing Aspen; and Jarett Hughes, senior policy adviser on aging for Colorado, pose for a photo on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. The team is working on an age-friendly action plan for Summit County.
Photo from the Summit County Community and Senior Center
In 2019, Summit County was designated an AARP Age Friendly Community. Since then, the county’s human services department has been at work developing an age-friendly action plan that will identify what additional services it could offer to the community.