The Navajo Nation is considering a proposal to provide more services to aging residents of the reservation.
The tribe offers meals, respite care and foster grandparenting through the Navajo Area Agency on Aging, a unit of the Navajo Division of Health. More services could be provided if the tribe elevates the unit to its own division.
"We need to make it bigger. Elders are getting older and we need to offer better services," Laverne Wyaco, a department manager at the agency, told The Farmington Daily Times.
More than 41,000 men and women age 45 and older live on the reservation. Their ranks are expected to grow to 70,000 by 2020.
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Navajo Aging program wants bigger role in daily lives of Nation residents
(The Farmington Daily Times 9/24)
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