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Age Friendly Communities Forum – 24 November 2015

In partnership with the Council on the Ageing (COTA) a forum was held to understand what it means to live in an Age-friendly community. The priorities raised include:

Maps to bathroom facilitates as well as increasing the overall facilities available,
Increasing frequency and access to transportation
Creating a retirement village
Increasing overall accessibility of the environment (seating, handrails, footpaths/walking…

Started: 2015
Location: Burnie, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Information and communication

Acorn SMART Tablet Pilot

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The ACORN pilot project sought to demonstrate the impact of smart technology solutions specifically designed for improving social inclusion, health and wellbeing of older adults. 28 Participants from Louth took part in this project. Each participant received an age friendly designed “ACORN” smart tablet.

The objectives of the Pilot were:

To demonstrate how an age friendly tablet…

Started: 2019
Location: Louth, Ireland
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Information and communication

This Girl Can – Women over 50 in the Macedon Ranges

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This Girl Can is an initiative of VicHealth, based upon the successful campaign created by Sport England. The campaign exists to celebrate and support Victorian Women embracing physical activity in a way that suits them. In 2019 we were successful in getting a $10,000 grant to support this initiative in the Macedon Ranges to target…

Started: 2019
Location: Macedon Ranges, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Health

Live Well. Live Long Program

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This award winning program is a partnership between the Tasmanian Health Service and Clarence City Council.

Live Well Live Long provides a free, informative, interactive and educational program at the Clarence Integrated Care Health Centre (ICC). It is designed to take a holistic approach to the health and wellness of older people, with a focus on…

Started: 2014
Location: Clarence City, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Health

Intergen Munch Out

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This program is designed to improve and create a holistic healthy lifestyle for program participants, regardless of general health or physical well-being. This program gave young people the opportunity to develop and create new approaches to healthy eating, understanding food and drink labels, how foods works for your mental and physical state and how to…

Started: 2017
Location: Kiama, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Health, Information and communication

Mapping a city

A town is divided into spatial segments. Teams of 1-2 older people and 1-2 children or youngsters (ca. 13+) go together to map places in the segment that are dirty and neglected but need only a small improvement, mostly in appearance (cleaning a corner, painting a banister), tiny accessories (bench, basket) or complements (a sign).…

Started: 2019
Location: Hodkovice nad Mohelkou, Czechia
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Urban development

Record achievements for Sharjah Age-friendly city Program from 2017-2020

The Sharjah Age-friendly cities program of the Department of Social service revealed that it…

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16 Dec, 2020, by Sharjah, News