For class this Wednesday, we presented our Age-Friendly Neighborhood Assessment projects. It was interesting and insightful to learn about the neighborhoods everyone had chosen. I liked learning how age-friendly each neighborhood was and I felt like I got a glimpse of what life is like in that neighborhood. Tiffany and I worked on our NAP together because we were doing the same neighborhood which was Chinatown in Los Angeles. Tiffany was a great partner to work with because we divided the work pretty evenly and helped each other along the way. It was actually pretty fun to research and learn more about Chinatown. I discovered new things such as services that I didn't even know that was offered. I was surprised to even find out that counties or cities had an aging plan, so that was new. Originally, I wanted to go out and take pictures of the elders playing mahjong, doing Tai Chi together, or going about their everyday life to capture a more accurate portrait of what it's like in Chinatown because Google was pretty limited in that aspect. However, I wasn't able to because first, there's no seniors out there right now due to stay-at-home orders and social distancing and second, I don't think my parents would want me to go out and risk getting infected. Nonetheless, I still think Tiffany and I did a great job finding photos for the assignment. Overall, I'm really that it gave me the opportunity to think about how age-friendly it is to live in Chinatown from an elder's perspective and learn what challenges that they may currently face trying to survive in this community.
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