With Gdynia throughout your entire life

Adding life to years

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Summary

A city listening to the voice of its people. Senior citizens policy is focused on a particular group of people: the elderly. When talking about the city we do not want to limit ourselves to people aged 60+ or 65+. We want to open ourselves up to actions that target all age groups. That is why we in Gdynia talk more and more often about inter-generational policy engaging partners of all ages and all backgrounds.

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Website: http://www.mopsgdynia.pl/pliki/publikacje/15-With-Gdynia-throughout-your-entire-life-%28EN%29.pdf

Key facts

Main target group: Both younger and older people (i.e. intergenerational)

Sector(s): Education, Health, Housing, Long-term care, Social protection

Desired outcome for older people:
Learn, grow and make decisions

Other issues the Age-friendly practice aims to address:

Intergenerational activities
Inclusion
Participation
Technologies

Contact details

Name: Michal Guc

Email address: m.guc@gdynia.pl

Age-friendly practice in detail (click to expand):

Engaging the wider community

Project lead: Local authorities

Others involved in the project:

Local authorities
Civil Society Organisation
Older People’s Association
Social or health care provider

Older people’s involvement: Older people were involved in the age-friendly practice at multiple or all stages

Moving forward

Has the impact of this age-friendly practice been analysed: Yes

Was the impact positive or negative:
Positive

Looking back

Reflections:
The inter-generational dialogue, launched by the City of Gdynia Council Resolution of September 28, 2016 will continue until March 2018. Within its framework, we would like to speak to both senior citizens and the younger people around them, their families and neighbours. We will also extend the invitation to those engaged in shaping the community of Gdynians: representatives of NGOs, entrepreneurs, teachers, artists, educators, community organisers and civil servants.

Challenges:
In recent years, the demographic structure of cities has changed radically. The trends we observe clearly show that the average age of city dwellers is soaring. This is characteristic of the entire country as well as the EU. Therefore, to secure a beneficial coexistence of different social groups and meet various demands, we have been obliged to gather representatives of all ages around one table.