Keeping tabs on California’s Master Plan for Aging as oversight agencies face challenges

California’s Master Plan for Aging has been lauded as the broadest and most ambitious such plan in the nation. Launched by Gov. Gavin Newson in January 2021, the plan outlines five major goals and a 10-year blueprint for dealing with a population where one in four Californians will be age 60 or over by 2030.

Since the plan’s inception, the state has launched or planned 227 initiatives to help older adults in areas ranging from health care to housing to digital access.