Abstract
Abstract Age-friendly community initiatives (AFCIs) as community interventions systematically cultivate inter-organizational partnerships toward making policies, systems, and environments more supportive of healthy aging, aging in community, and aging equity. Building from a multi-year, university-community partnership to spur the development of AFCIs in New Jersey, we drew on social network theory and research methods to examine the networks of AFCI core teams and their key partners across diverse community settings. Data collection involved administering questionnaires to both AFC core teams and their key organizational partners. We report on the presence and strengths of dyadic relationships that comprise the networks, analyzed by sector, organizational function, and geographic service area of each network node. We discuss implications of the findings concerning policies and practices around sustainability planning for AFCIs as well as future directions for using network theory to understand AFC progress at various levels of geographic scope.
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