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This simple toolkit consists of a Self Assessment Checklist and instructions as a simple way to audit establishments to help them identify simple changes to make their premises more Age Friendly.

Establishments that complete the checklist are offered an Age Friendly Illawarra chair as a visible symbol of their commitment.

Age Friendly Retail checklist instructions

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Started: 2017
Location: Illawarra Shoalhaven Region, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Urban development

BAILE DA TERCEIRA IDADE – 11/02/2020 – EDIÇÃO DE CARNAVAL

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Os idosos de Jaguariúna poderão se divertir e dançar muito na primeira edição do ano do tradicional “Baile da Terceira Idade”. Dessa vez, o evento realizado pela Secretaria de Assistência Social da Prefeitura Municipal de Jaguariúna/SP,  será em clima de Carnaval e acontecerá na terça-feira, 11 de fevereiro, no salão multimodal “Sylvio Venturini”, a partir…

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Started: 2020
Location: Jaguariuna
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Social protection

Un référent fragilité pour agir en prévention

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La Ville de Saint-Etienne en collaboration avec les acteurs gérontologiques de son territoire a souhaité développer une politique ambitieuse de prévention graduée du vieillissement en créant un poste de “Référent fragilité”.
L’objectif est de pouvoir anticiper des situations de fragilité rencontrées par les personnes âgées et les aidants familiaux en privilégiant une approche multifactorielle, prenant…

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Started: 2015
Location: Saint-Etienne, France
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health, Information and communication, Social protection

City of Summerside’s Age-friendly Business project

Our project included strategies we shared with seniors about what makes businesses age-friendly. In turn, Seniors mentored other seniors and business owners on the same, with the intent for businesses to become age-friendly.

Working with a social worker from Home Instead, we trained 20 senior ambassador mentors. Our goal was to reach 20 businesses in Summerside…

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Started: 2016
Location: Summerside
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Information and communication

Age-friendly Cities Committee Intergenerational Project

This project was inspired by seniors who took part in our focus group in Year 2. In the report “An Assessment of Summerside’s Age-friendliness” seniors concluded that social inclusion and social participation were gaps in the City. Our project was designed to cultivate and promote an interest in relationship building across and within generations, while…

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Started: 2017
Location: Summerside
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Education, Health, Information and communication

Lkaleak

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LKaleak, es un proyecto del Plan de Ciudad Donostia Lagunkoia que consiste en desarrollar un proceso de co-creación en el que personas mayores, junto con otras personas y agentes de la comunidad imaginan, diseñan y activan redes de colaboración que promueven un entorno amigable que provea atención a las personas mayores cuando necesitan apoyo y…

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Started: 2020
Location: San Sebastian
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Social protection

Radio information tablets with topics of interest to the elderly

Tabletas de información radiofónica con temas de interés para las personas mayores.
Elaborar un catálogo de Píldoras Informativas sobre recursos para la tercera edad (baños públicos, descuentos en impuestos municipales, actividades de centros cívicos, carnet de transporte urbano, accesibilidad a espectáculos), rompiendo viejos estereotipos para comunicarse a través de la Radio municipal.

Las pastillas informativas…

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Started: 2020
Location: Igualada
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Urban development

Let’s Get Moving Project

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Research data indicates that while older adults value the importance of physical activity, they have the lowest exercise rates of all Canadians. Physical activity plays an important role in improving well-being and preventing illness and dependence. 

Let’s Get Moving responds to the Age-Friendly Hamilton Plan recommendations, as well as current research findings to enhance social participation…

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Started: 2017
Location: Hamilton, Canada
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Social protection

Daily centres of activities for older people in Ljubljana (DACs)

Due to the increasingly ageing population of Ljubljana and due to the lengthening life expectancy as well as the older people staying healthy and active for longer, we started methodologically following the idea of keeping older people at home and in their local environments for longer by offering services for the older…

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Started: 2005
Location: Ljubljana
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Social protection