Project Puente: Asociacion Nacional pro Personas Mayores. (Project Bridge:National Association for Hispanic Elderly)

摘要

'Puente' means 'bridge' in Spanish. The Project Puente's goals were to (1) createa dialogue with Hispanic elected and appointed officials, and Hispanic leaders in business, fraternal and civic associations, about trends in aging (especially Hispanic aging) and their impact on American society, (2) create and implement a public awareness campaign directed to the target groups regarding older hispanics; eldercare needs and how they can help meet them in the context of the National Eldercare Campaign, (3) link the target groups with existing eldercare coalitions and promote new coalitions to gain greater leverage of advocacy for the at-risk hispanic elderly, (4) secure hispanic officials' commitment to creating aging agendas as part of their policy development and making those agendas a top priority, (5) promote sponsorship of health and income-related eldercare projects by hispanic businesses, fraternal and civic associations.