Five More Reasons To Encourage Your Parents and Neighbors ToTake the Roseville Senior Activities Survey

1. 
   You were not hatched out of an egg, so you mayhave parents and other family members who are seniors.  Encouraging them to complete this survey will help provide services for seniors.
2. 
   You may have children in this community.  Seniors pay taxes that help support the schools and Parks & Recreation Department offerings for children. Encouraging seniors to complete this survey will help provide and/or improve services for seniors.  Turn around is fair.
3. 
   You are a taxpayer who may be concerned about eliminating duplication of services and/or providing/improving some services. Analysis of existing senior services in our community is a first step to improvement.  This only happens, if you encourage seniors to complete the survey.
4. 
   If you have older parents and/or relatives, you may be concerned about services available to them.  Encouraging seniors to complete this survey
   will provide a better picture of the type of services currently available,
   currently used, and perceived as future needs in our community.
5. 
   If you are no longer 39, but are not yet a senior, and you are concerned about possible political changes to healthcare, social security, long term care insurance, and other programs that will eventually impact you, you may want to complete part of the survey to indicate topics that you want to learn about. Make certain to provide your current age on the survey form, so you are not included with the seniors.

The Senior Activities Survey is a tool for taking a snapshot of the senior community. The snapshot will be more realistic, as more people participate in the
survey. 

The survey will be used as a planning tool and a supporting document for fundraising efforts.

This survey does not ask for any identifying information about you. The survey consists of a series of short questions. Most questions have spaces to check off your answers. Some questions require you to write in an answer.

Some questions will not apply to you. We hope that you will answer as many of the questions as possible, to help provide a more complete snapshot of seniors in the Roseville area.

The survey will be available between February and April 2012. The survey is available in an electronic version (link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PCG59DY ), and a hard copy.

Hard copies of the survey will also be brought to groups of Roseville area seniors by volunteers from the NSSC. If you have a group that would be willing to complete the survey, we will be happy to provide hard copies or a link to you. Request the survey by sending an email with the details of your request to SeniorActivitiesSurvey@yahoo.com .

Completed hard copies may be returned to the Senior Activity Survey drop box in the senior activities lounge of the Fairview  Community Center or the Parks and Rec desk at City Hall, or mailed to us at North Suburban Senior Council 1910 County Road B West, Roseville, MN 55113.

So, how do you encourage seniors to take this survey?

Discuss the survey with your seniors.  Describe the purpose of the survey.  Tell them that it will only take ~10 minutes
of their time.  Help them gain access to
the survey, which is available in both hard copy and electronic format.

Some information to assist you is provided below:

The Senior Activities Survey is a tool
for taking a snapshot of the senior community. 
The snapshot will be more realistic, as more people participate in the
survey.  The survey will be used as a
planning tool and a supporting document for fundraising efforts.

This survey does not ask for any
identifying information about you. The survey consists of a series of short
questions. Most questions have spaces to check off your answers. Some questions
require you to write in an answer. Some questions will not apply to you.

We hope that you will answer as many of the
questions as possible, to help provide a more complete snapshot of seniors in
the Roseville area.

The survey will be available between February
and April 2012. The survey is available in an electronic version (link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PCG59DY ), and a hard copy.

Friendly NSSC volunteers will have hard copies
of the survey at a table outside the solarium at the 16th Annual "Living
Smarter" Home and Garden Fair. The Fair is on Sat., Feb 18, 2012, from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Fairview Community Center. (link to fair http://www.livingsmarter.org/fair.html ) You can complete the survey at the Fair.

Hard copies of the survey will also be brought
to groups of Roseville area seniors by volunteers from the NSSC. If you have a
group that would be willing to complete the survey, we will be happy to provide
hard copies or a link to you. Request the survey by sending an email with the details
of your request to SeniorActivitiesSurvey@yahoo.com .

Completed hard copies may be returned to the Senior
Activity Survey drop box in the senior activities lounge of the Fairview
Community Center or the Parks & Rec desk at City Hall, or mailed to us at North
Suburban Senior Council 1910 County Road B West, Roseville, MN 55113.

We live in tough economic and political times,
but our needs do not diminish. We can accomplish changes, but we need the hard
work of dedicated individuals and everyone’s participation.

Thank you for helping
to improve senior activities in your community, by encouraging seniors to
complete the survey!