National programmes for age-friendly cities and communities: a guide
Member in Focus: City of Rijeka, Croatia
The City of Rijeka has been committed to fostering an age-friendly environment for many years, and this goal has been formally expressed in all of Rijeka’s Health Development Plans since 1996. To do this Rijeka’s main focus has been to improve the social and economical wellbeing of older people through programmes aimed at their social inclusion, physical activity and education.
Rijeka’s Social Programme has many measures aimed at helping those who are especially economically vulnerable. The City is also directly engaging with its older citizens by closely working with the largest local Association for Older People, and by providing financing for some of their programmes. Furthermore, the “Rijeka – Healthy City” Thematic Group for Healthy Ageing, which is composed of local…
Read moreAge-friendly Practice in Focus: Age-friendly Toolkit
While celebrating increased life expectancy, stakeholders in vocational education and training (VET) concur on the fact that the demands of longevity and demographic transition require cultivating novel professional roles and skill sets.
In response to these needs, the AGE-FRIENDLY TOOLKIT project has formulated a training curriculum for a ground-breaking role: the “Reference Professional for Inclusive Ageing in Age-Friendly Cities” and produced a collection of accessible educational resources (learning content and educational app).
These resources are meant to be integrated into vocational education and training systems while remaining freely accessible on the internet.
The learning material, available in English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish and…
Read moreAge-friendly Environments ECHO Learning Programme (AFE-ECHO)
Are you a new or emerging leader of age-friendly cities and communities? Do you want to join a community of age-friendly champions and develop the skills required to create better places to grow, live, work, play, and age?
Participate in the Age-friendly Environments ECHO Programme (AFE-ECHO): a multi-session learning cycle part of the MENTOR-AFE programme aligned with the latest approaches and guidance on age-friendly environments from WHO. Participants will be taken through the main components of the WHO age-friendly framework by global experts. Each session will also create a space for participants to apply what they learn through collaborative problem-solving.
The third round of AFE-ECHO in English is currently running from 15 October to 10 December 2024.
Welcome to the Government of Portugal – our newest national Affiliate
The Directorate-General of Health of the Government of Portugal, abbreviated as DGS, is a central service of the Ministry of Health, integrated in the direct administration of the State, endowed with administrative autonomy. The DGS’s mission is to regulate, guide and coordinate health promotion and disease prevention activities, define the technical conditions for the adequate provision of health care, plan and program the national policy for quality in the health system, as well as ensure the preparation and execution of the National Health Plan.
The Directorate-General of Health (DGS) has, within the scope of Active and Healthy Ageing, a remarkable track record in the development of programmes. The first National Programme for the Health of the Elderly was launched in…
Read moreThe Government of the State of Nuevo León, México – our newest sub-national Affiliate
The State Institute for Older Adults of Nuevo León (IEPAM) is a decentralised public body in charge of implementing public policies aimed at ensuring the comprehensive development of older adults in the State of Nuevo León. IEPAM coordinates with different public and private institutions in the state through municipal and state liaisons that allow us to coordinate programmes and projects in favour of a more active and healthy ageing with a human rights perspective. IEPAM is currently working together with 5 municipalities in the metropolitan area of Monterrey (San Pedro Garza García, Monterrey, Santa Catarina, San Nicolás de los Garza and Apodaca) in the Project: Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities.
In November 2021, work began to establish the foundations…
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Kathi Bailey
Adam Ogilvie
London, Canada Community
Ray Withy
Robert Reichert
Roger Sigouin
Senarath Attanayake
Shane Rattenbury
Josep Visa Bonet
Vincent C. Gray
Zoran Janković
Gwen Hassall
Iain Deboys
Anna-Kaisa Ikonen
Adding life to years
Nuestro grano de arena a la Red Global de Ciudades Amigables con las personas mayores!
A su vez, en la generación de opciones para que esta población mantenga una calidad de vida digna. Donde se fomente la formación y educación permanente, los espacios de salud mental y de relación con pares.
Queremos aportar en la transformación de roles de la población adulta mayor, donde pasen de ser sujetos pasivos a sujetos autónomos!
Ana Victoria Madrigal Boza, Oficina de Bienestar Social y Familia, Área Desarrollo Humano y Cohesión Social, Municipalidad de Mora
Ana Victoria Madrigal Boza, Oficina de Bienestar Social y Familia, Área Desarrollo Humano y Cohesión Social, Municipalidad de Mora