Will Phillips, AARP Minnesota State Director, is interviewed by guest host Bill Raker. AARP is a non-profit, non-partisan social impact organization with nearly 640,000 Minnesotan members. Phillips explains the “Age-Friendly Minnesota” program and how it positively impacts citizens of all ages in many ways, while primarily focusing on the needs of the increasing number of aging Minnesotans, noting that in 2020 the number of adults older than 65 outnumbered the school-age children in the state. He describes an “age-friendly community” naming the nine such communities currently in MN, and explains how an interested community can join that group. AARP and other organizations are working towards having the legislature make permanent and independent with dedicated funding the “Governor’s Council on Age Friendly Minnesota.”
