The Senior Citizens Advisory Board meeting was called to order at 1:00 PM on September 4, 2025. The board approved the minutes from the August 7, 2025 meeting, received a presentation from the University of Nevada Reno Extension on healthy aging programs, heard a report on a senior care coordination case, and received updates from council ward representatives. The meeting concluded with a discussion of future topics and setting the next meeting for October 2, 2025.
I now call the September Fourth, twenty twenty-five Senior Citizens Advisory Board meeting to order. Has this meeting been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the Nevada Open Meeting Law? Yes, it has. Do I have any amendments or a motion to approve? I make a motion. I uh move to approve the minutes from August 7th meeting. So we have a motion to approve meeting, minutes from August 7th, 2025. All in favor? Aye. Aye. So moved. Item number five presentation by Natalie Mazzulo, Master of Education, Healthy Aging Initiative Coordinator with the University of Nevada Reno regarding healthy aging initiative programs for seniors, all wards. And if you can state your name for the record. Yes, okay. Good afternoon. This is Natalie Mazzulo for the record. How are you this afternoon? Wonderful. You have packets in front of you. There's just some things from the University of Nevada Reno Extension Office. Before I get started, how many of you are familiar with the UNR extension offices? Is there anybody that's not familiar? Okay, great. So the extension offices are attached to land grant universities. We are with the University of Nevada Reno. Extension offices are throughout the country. We have 17 offices across the state. There's one in every county, including one in Carson City. Extension offices typically are known, they're community-based and they service the community that they're in. So every extension office that's in a community services that community and works really closely with the boards and county commissioners, city planners, those types of things to really provide the necessary education for those communities. Many of you may know the 4-H program or Master Gardeners. Those are both uh extension programs and have been for uh many years. Um here in Nevada, we have both of those a Master Gardener Program and 4-H, uh, which is a youth program. It uh we do a lot of after school programming, but we also have a healthy aging uh team, which is unusual. Not all extensions have a healthy aging focus. Uh we usually focus on health and nutrition, um, a lot of agriculture, uh, how uh the communities and economic development within the community, but ours is very fortunate, and we work very closely with the university and faculty members. Um I myself um faculty with the university, and I'm really excited to tell you a little bit about the programs that we run here in Clark County. So on the slide here, you can see um these are some of the main programs that we run. And here's my small team up in the corner there. I'm very proud of them. I was uh doing our calendar for my director today, and we have 60 classes and events scheduled for the month of September. So we're a busy group, even though we're kind of small. Um, one of the many of the programs that that we offer and that extension offers are evidence-based programs. They're either uh research-based, evidence-informed, or evidence-based themselves. An aging mastery program is an evidence-informed program. It's uh it was developed out of the National Council on Aging. Uh, we run that in our older adult resident communities, which would be our Nevada hand properties, our ovation properties, um, those types of uh residential independent living communities. We also run them in senior centers and community centers across uh across Clark County. The program is um uh there are 10 items or 10 different lessons that are part of uh the aging mastery program, and we do things like advanced planning, so you can plan for end of life, uh financial um education or financial fitness, we call it. Uh we do falls prevention, nutrition, uh, physical activity, uh all different kinds of um how to stay healthy, and it's not just again physical activity and nutrition, it's all the other kind of finances like relationship, um relationship education and how to maneuver grandparents that raise their grandchildren, um, how do we provide them tips and resources?