EVALUATING AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY INITIATIVES FROM A SOCIAL NETWORK PERSPECTIVE

Abstract Age-friendly community initiatives (AFCIs) as interventions systematically cultivate inter-organizational partnerships toward making policies, systems, and environments more supportive of healthy aging, aging in community, equity. Building from a multi-year, university-community partnership to spur the development AFCIs New Jersey, we drew on social network theory research methods examine networks AFCI core teams their key partners across diverse settings. Data collection involved administering questionnaires both AFC organizational partners. We report presence strengths dyadic relationships that comprise networks, analyzed by sector, function, geographic service area each node. discuss implications findings concerning policies practices around sustainability planning for well future directions using understand progress at various levels scope.