Volunteers and political officials in local communities often campaign to improve conditions and provide services to increase the well-being of individuals and families living in those communities. If you are the parent of young children, you might focus on improving the local school or creating safe places where children can play. If you are an individual in later adulthood or a caregiver for an individual in later adulthood, what community resources might be important to you? For this week's Assignment, you evaluate the resources that your local community provides for its older members.To prepare for this Assignment, research the resources available in your local community (Hawthrone New York) to support the issues and concerns of the older population. Note any gaps in these services and consider what improvements might be made to existing services as well as what services should be added.A description of the services in your local community that support individuals in later adulthoodAn evaluation of the effectiveness of the services you identifiedA description of service gaps you identifiedAn explanation of how to improve existing servicesA description of services that should be added, and whyA lease two specific reference to the resources support your Assignment. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

WEB-BASED RESEARCH (WBR) PAPER: Each student will write a brief paper using web-based research on acompany of their choice (i.e., any company with a website [i.e., public, private, for/non-profit, etc.])Requirements and grading of the WBR will be noted below. The WBR Paper is worth 5% of the total course grade. Formatting, grammar, and overall quality is (20%) of the research papers total score: The paper should beone-page, single spaced with 12-point Times New Roman font with a one-inch margin (papers longer orshorter than one page will be penalized). The paper must be well written in paragraph format and shouldbe both spell-checked and clarity-checked. Spelling errors, poorly structured thoughts, and grammarmistakes will be penalized. Papers submitted in bullet point format will also be penalized. Company info (20%): The paper must include the name of the company, description of the business,primary goods/services, location of headquarters, the internet address and why you selected thisparticular company. You should not select a company where you previously or currently work. The paper must address two (2) Operations Management topics as listed in the course schedule.Addressing these two topics represent (40%) of the overall research papers total score. If only one OMtopic is addressed, the student will be penalized by 20% on the WBR paper score. Some examples of pasttopics used are: What is the company’s approach to outsourcing and/or offshoring? What type of forecasting & scheduling practices does the company use? What are the competitive dimensions / strategies that form the competitive position of thecompany? What type of production and/or service processes does the company utilize? How has the company incorporated lean, TPS, and six sigma principles into the culture? What are the company’s order qualifier(s) and order winner(s)? What is the company’s approach to sustainability? Any other topic covered in this course… Three (3) Questions (20%): Lastly, you must include three (3) questions that you would ask the CEO if youhad the opportunity to meet with him/her. These (3) questions should be Operations Managementrelated; like if you were interviewing the CEO for a newspaper or magazine article. Questions you mightask them would be about international strategies, past scandals, supply chain / sourcing practices, socialresponsibility, company culture, etc. Questions need to be more thought provoking than “where do yousee the company in 5 years,” or “what are you most proud of in your career;” they need to be related toOperations Management issues covered in this course. Each student must submit both a hardcopy of the paper no later than the due date and a softcopythrough the TurnItIn feature of Blackboard to check for plagiarism. Failure to submit the project in bothforms will result in a zero on the assignment. The WBR Paper is DUE ON NOVEMBER 15TH, but you mayturn it in early for possible extra credit. You do not need to have a Works Cited page unless you reference any source other than the website orthe class text. In general, the WBR Paper should be about 4 paragraphs. The first paragraph explains the company info,the second paragraph will address the first OM topic, the third paragraph will address the second OMtopic, and the fourth paragraph will be the three questions you’d ask if interviewing the CEO of yourchosen company. You should include the following information in the Header of your paper: Your name, RedID and CourseSequence #, Class-Section (i.e., BA360.8).