Adding life to years
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Summary

The City of Fredericton Age-Friendly Community Advisory Committee and partners are conducting this survey. See the following for more information about the process and survey.

Why is the survey important?

The survey will help with long term decision-making on issues that affect us, on the part of elected officials, City staff, and the many non-profit organizations which continually work to make Fredericton a great city in which to live, work and play. It will also provide a basis for ongoing public discussion about our concerns. As data from the survey is analyzed and important issues identified, the plan is to follow-up with community consultations and forums. This will provide ongoing clarity and help in the creation of an age-friendly action plan to ensure that our needs are being met.

Who are the partners?

Survey partners include the City of Fredericton’s Age-Friendly Community Advisory Committee, the NB Senior Goodwill Ambassadors, the Wellness Movement, L’Unité du Troisième Âge pour l’Apprentissage de la Capitale (UTAAC), and Greater Fredericton Social innovation (GFSI).

Key facts

Main target group: Older people in general

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

Other sector(s): Accessibility

Desired outcome for older people:
Build and maintain relationships

Other issues the Age-friendly practice aims to address:
  • Ageism
  • Accessibility
  • Ageing in place
  • Disasters and emergencies
  • Healthy behaviours (e.g. physical activity)
  • Intergenerational activities
  • Inclusion
  • Participation

Contact details

Name: Eric Megarity

Email address: eric.megarity@fredericton.ca


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

Engaging the wider community

Project lead: Volunteers

Others involved in the project:
  • Local authorities
  • Civil Society Organisation
  • Older People’s Association

How collaboration worked: Survey partners include the City of Fredericton’s Age-Friendly Community Advisory Committee, the NB Senior Goodwill Ambassadors, the Wellness Movement, L’Unité du Troisième Âge pour l’Apprentissage de la Capitale (UTAAC), and Greater Fredericton Social innovation (GFSI).

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

Details on older people’s involvement: help develop a template survey to be used province-wide. Also helped conducting the survey and tabulating the results.

Moving forward

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

Was the impact positive or negative:
Positive

Please share with us what you found in detail:
Many sectors involving ageing were discussed, a good baseline improvement. The survey provided good data for the city and province of New Brunswick to use.

Evaluation report: age_friendly_survey_results_detailed_findings_june_2018_final.pdf

Feedback:
Great feedback has been received.

Expansion plans:
Yes, share out survey template with other communities.

Looking back

Challenges:
Funding, we had to dig deep for funding.