Adding life to years
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Summary

The 2025 Age-Friendly Monthly Webinar Series strengthened peer learning across the network by featuring leaders advancing practical, community-driven age-friendly strategies. Sessions explored a wide range of topics—from the 2025 AARP Challenge Grant and Age-Friendly Leadership Survey Results to age-friendly planning, public space design, intergenerational programs, age-inclusive communication, transportation challenges, and real-world housing solutions—each offering tools and replicable models to support local work. Webinars also highlighted new resources for communities, innovations emerging from the network, and the growing adoption of digital tools to enhance impact. Together, these sessions provide a robust collection of insights and approaches for communities striving to build more inclusive, connected, and age-friendly environments.

Website: https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/network-age-friendly-communities/

Key facts

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

Other target group(s): Age-Friendly Community Initiative Leaders

Sector(s): Education, Health, Housing, Information and communication, Transportation

Other sector(s): Outdoor Spaces

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

Other issues the Age-friendly practice aims to address:
  • Ageism
  • Accessibility
  • Intergenerational activities
  • Inclusion
  • Participation
  • Technologies

Contact details

Name: Armbruster, William

Email address: warmbruster@aarp.org

Preferred language(s): English

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

Engaging the wider community

Project lead: Older People’s Association

Others involved in the project:
  • Local authorities
  • Civil Society Organisation
  • Social or health care provider
  • Volunteers
  • Private sector
  • Research institution

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

Details on older people’s involvement: older people were engaged in the co-creation of each initiative/project that were highlighted and also served as presenters in several of the webinar

Moving forward

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

Was the impact positive or negative:
Positive

Expansion plans:
yes, our webinar series is conducted annually and improvements made based on feedback and topics aligned to current issues and listening/engagement.

Looking back

Challenges:
We continue to get feedback in order to grow our audience, participation and topics presented. Registration for the series has increased by over a 100 each month over the past year.