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Transportation Solutions for Caregivers: Senior Transportation Options Template*

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What is the “Senior Transportation Options Template”?

The Senior Transportation Options Template, developed in partnership with the Beverly Foundation, is a customizable electronic template (“drop in the facts”) used in identifying all of the transportation options available to seniors in a typical community. The template allows you to create a user-friendly booklet filled with local senior transportation options to print and share with older adults and caregivers. It also provides a framework from which to inventory and assess existing transportation options, gaps and needs. Customizable supporting materials are included for providing additional information to the community.

What can the Senior Transportation Options Template do for your community?

• Raise awareness
• Inventory existing transportation options
• Provide helpful information to assist older adults and caregiver access services
• Initiate discussion among aging services and transportation providers
• Create a starting point for coordination of transportation services
• Serve as the basis for comprehensive planning and the development of coordinated transportation service delivery plans

Why is it valuable?

The resulting information will be useful both to seniors for transportation planning, and also to family and professional caregivers who can assist in mobility decisions.

Who can use this tool?

Community-based programs, including:

• Area Agencies on Aging 
• Senior centers
• Faith-based organizations
• Aging service providers
• Transportation providers
• Motor vehicle departments
• Community planners and organizers

* Developed in partnership with Beverly Foundation and Easter Seals, this template was supported, in part, by grant 90-CG-2649, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services. Grantees undertaking projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official Administration on Aging policy. 

The National Center on Senior Transportation is funded through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration and with guidance from the U.S. Administration on Aging. NCST is administered by Easter Seals Inc. in partnership with the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a).