Grants Help Promote Livable Communities for Seniors in MD

AARP Maryland’s Community Grant Challenge provides grants to nonprofits and local governments to make communities more livable for seniors. A group in Carroll County received funds to distribute emergency preparedness kits just ahead of last month’s snowstorm.  Mike Rodgers with Caring Carroll says such kits can make a big difference, especially for those living alone…

 

“Anything can happen at any time. It doesn’t matter where you live. Especially older folks, and a majority of people in our program live alone, and a lot of them don’t even live in community housing. They live in individual homes. They might have neighbors, but they’re there by themselves a lot.”