Multisector Plan for Aging: Collaborating to Improve Outcomes for New Jersey’s Older Adults, Respect

Welcome to All Teach, All Listen, Beyond the ECHO, examining public health challenges through an interdisciplinary lens, amplifying diverse voices, encouraging critical thinking, and promoting collaborative civic action across the healthcare system. For our fifth episode of the season, hosted by Sean Cuddihy, we shift focus to older adults in New Jersey with Dr. Joshua Raymond and Dr. Cathy Rowe discussing efforts to improve aging, care, and community supports.

They explore barriers like ageism, affordability, transportation, and housing, and highlight age‑friendly hospital initiatives, a new Medicaid palliative care benefit, workforce challenges, and the push for a multi‑sector plan for aging. Learn where to find resources and how communities, healthcare, business, and government can work together to enable aging well in New Jersey.

This podcast is powered by the Eagleton Institute of Politics as part of Democracy Week 2025.