Lifetime Community, a dementia-friendly neighborhoods for Bloomington
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On May 24, 2018, over 100 Bloomington residents participated in a Dementia-friendly Conference featuring seven roundtable design groups tasked with reimagining a 24-acre site that will become available when IU Health Bloomington Hospital relocates around 2020–2021. The Bloomington Comprehensive Plan explicitly calls for developing this site as a "Lifetime Community District"—defined as a place promoting social, physical, mental, and emotional well-being for persons of all abilities across the entire lifespan—with the project representing the first dementia-friendly Lifetime Community in Indiana and a model for other communities nationwide. The planning process, funded by Grantmakers in Aging and the Bloomington Monroe-County Community Foundation, involved extensive public participation and will culminate in a detailed Focus Area plan to guide future redevelopment.
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