Age-Friendly Hotels
Summary
The Emirate of Sharjah always seeks to overcome all challenges faced by people with mobility disabilities and older adults, in a way that contributes to their empowerment and ensuring their rights in various areas of life, considering the importance of integrating them into society.
The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority is keen to support this category and work hard to create the appropriate conditions, atmosphere and infrastructure for them, to enable them to interact with other segments of society in order to achieve an ideal environment of happiness and stability.
From this standpoint, and in cooperation with the Sharjah age-friendly city office, the initiative was launched in Sharjah Age-Friendly office’s strategic plan 2021-2023 and continues is the new strategic plan 2024-2026.
The initiative aims to prepare hotels in the Emirate of Sharjah to be suitable for the use of older adults, especially those with a mobility disability, and hotels that meet the conditions are granted a certificate from the world disability union to certify that the hotel are “fulfilled to WDU certificate of accessible for physical disability. 4 hotels in Sharjah have been honored so far.
Key facts
Main target group: Older people in general
Sector(s): Long-term care
Other sector(s): All older adults or people with disabilities, in addition to pregnant women and parents who care for children in strollers.
Desired outcome for older people:
Meet their basic needs
- Ageism
- Accessibility
- Disasters and emergencies
- Elder abuse
- Intergenerational activities
- Inequities
- Inclusion
- Participation
- Technologies