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To honor and celebrate Ms. Cindy Farson for her exemplary service to the City of Columbus and to older adults
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WHEREAS, as a part of her more than 43 years in service to older adults, Ms. Cindy Farson has been the director of the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging for 28 years, where she oversees the work of more than 400 people who administer local, state, and federal dollars that flow into an eight-county region; and
WHEREAS, throughout her career, she has applied her passion for raising awareness of the issues that older adults face and supporting their quality of life by developing significant new programming and resources, including Ohio’s Option for Elders Demonstration, Ohio’s Medicaid Consumer-directed Care Pilot called Choices, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Community-based Care Transitions Project, Ohio’s My Care Demonstration, Franklin County’s 45-million-dollar senior levy, and still to this day acting as a volunteer guardian assisting nursing home residents without family to make decisions about their care;
WHEREAS, Farson’s service to older adults has earned her leadership positions in the Columbus area, state of Ohio, and nationally, such as twice becoming president of the Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging, becoming a member and then president of the board of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging where she would testify before Congress and serve as a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging, acting as president of Employment for Seniors, and serving on the Ohio Attorney General’s Elder Abuse Task Force, the state Adult Protective Services Workgroup, and the Columbus Energy Review Committee; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Farson has been recognized with the Muriel Bertsch Award from the Ohio Association of Senior Centers, the Friend of Adult Day Services award from their state association, the Charles Jenkins Legacy award from Employment for Seniors, the Award for Caring from National Church Residences, t...
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