Springfield Senior Services Case Analysis

The Springfield Department of Elder Affairs/Council on Aging as well as Greater Springfield Senior Services are also a key stakeholders in this concern. Their mission is to improve and enhance the quality of life for elder residents in Springfield. They advocate, plan, develop, coordinate and provide social services as well as information and referral services for Springfield's elder citizens. (Department of Elder Affairs, 2015) Therefore this issue and its solutions are a key concern that they both aim to address in their programming and service strategies. They are the focal point in harnessing the resources and enlisting policy makers to resolve this deficiency for the elder residents within their jurisdiction. They have been actively involved with the Mason Square …show more content…
The smaller businesses could not compete with the competitive pricing that the purchase power of national chains afforded the Wal-Marts, Costco’s and large chain Supermarkets of the world.

Because of the shift in food accessibility over the years, populations in the highest risk category have grown accustomed to these limitations and therefore their choices and demands for healthier foods have decreased. They have come to rely on these unhealthy alternatives so have in essence subsequently reduced the demands for the healthier food products. This reduction in demand has created a cycle in which the supermarkets have felt economically. Less demand in these impoverished areas impact their revenues, which impact their decisions to locate in these areas.

Advocates for the Just Food initiative attempted to attract a full line grocery store to the Mason Square area. However as the aforementioned causes of Food Deserts clearly demonstrated, the stores that were approached cited model planning limitations as their reason for not locating a store in this