Global Database of Age-friendly Practices

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Walker Rally in central park in Gothenburg

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In 2018, public officials in the City of Gothenburg visited the Walker Rally event in Oslo. The study visit gave a lot of inspiration in how the City of Gothenburg can implement a walker rally.

The process started in the autumn 2018 to anchor the idea with different sectors in the city. A project group started…

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Started: 2019
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Health, Long-term care, Urban development

Age-friendly Legacy Quilt

The purpose of our project, the Legacy Quilt, was to engage seniors and youth to have them create, together, a tangible piece of art that would remind, educate and ask onlookers of all ages to reflect on Summerside’s Age-friendly movement and the 8 domains of the World Health Organization’s Age-friendly Initiative. To make this an…

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Started: 2018
Location: Summerside
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Health, Housing, Information and communication, Social protection, Transportation

DES MARCHES EXPLORATOIRES AVEC LES AÎNÉS POUR DES DIAGNOSTICS DE PROXIMITÉ

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LA MARCHE EXPLORATOIRE Concrètement, la réalisation de la marche se traduit par une déambulation par petits groupes (un agent de la Ville pour quatre aînés) afin de prendre en note et en photo l’ensemble des remarques émises par les participants. Les échanges portent sur les cheminements, la signalétique, l’éclairage public, la présence et l’implantation de…

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Started: 2018
Location: Rennes, France
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Urban development

Gothenburg recruits senior future developers

The City of Gothenburg has recruited 30 “Future developers”. There was a great interest in the assignment among the 170 applicants. The future developers will help the City of Gothenburg make Gothenburg more age-friendly; including evaluating locations, arranging activities and making customer trips to evaluate services. 
 
What is a Future developer?  
 
During the…

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Started: 2019
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Housing, Information and communication, Transportation, Urban development

Visible House Numbering

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The Georgetown Age-Friendly Community team partnered with the Georgetown Volunteer Fire Department to improve the numbering of houses throughout town. Georgetown is a rural community with very little town lighting. Easy identification of house numbering is matter of safety for the fire and ambulance crews, especially at night. The program provides five-inch reflective numbers mounted…

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Started: 2019
Location: Georgetown
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health, Information and communication, Social protection

Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods Membership

In February 2020, Bristol launched their local Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods Network, which replicates the global network on a local scale. Similarly to the WHO network, this initiative offer community groups and organisations the chance to be recognised for their efforts towards becoming age-friendly and to share resources, action plans and practices with other members. As candidates…

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Started: 2020
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Health

Age-Friendly Westerville Timeline

Phase One: Complete

• Obtained Written Pledge/Resolution from City Council
• Completed Membership Application
• Submitted Written Pledge & Application to AARP
• Organized Staff Task Force
• Obtained acceptance into the WHO Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities

Phase Two: Complete

• Conducted Public Meeting #1 with Stakeholders
• Developed AARP Livable Communities Survey
• Joined the Commission of Age-Friendly Communities of Ohio (2019)

Phase Three: In Progress – May 2019…

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Started: 2018
Location: Westerville
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Education, Health, Housing, Information and communication, Labor, Long-term care, Social protection, Transportation

Self Portraits: Faces of Aging

In recognition of Older Americans Month, 2019, we launched Self Portraits: Faces of Aging.Thanks to funding from the Partners for Health Foundation and partnership support from the Montclair Art Museum, this initiative highlights self-portraits of older Montclair-area residents along with their reflections on what aging means to them.The goal of this…

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Started: 2020
Location: Montclair
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Other

Dublin City’s Guide to Age Friendly communication

One of the main objectives of Dublin City Council’s Age Friendly Programme is to make Dublin city a great place in which to grow old. To achieve this goal, the city council in collaboration with the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design (National Disability Authority) and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland have created this guide.

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Started: 2019
Location: Dublin City Age Friendly
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Information and communication

The Importance of Age Friendly Communication

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The Clare Age Friendly Alliance Board has been in existence since July 2011. Since then the main aim is to make Clare a better place in which to grow old through the delivery of the Clare Age Friendly Strategy. Access to information and services was one of the key issues raised by older people in…

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Started: 2019
Location: County Clare
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Information and communication

Age Friendly Business Certification Program

The Age-Friendly Business Certification Program is a program of the Age-Friendly Cleveland Initiative, jointly created by the Cleveland Department of Aging and the Better Business Bureau Serving Greater Cleveland. In feedback received during the Age-Friendly Cleveland Planning Process, older adults stated the need for accessible businesses. Over one-quarter of outreach questionnaire respondents identified long lines…

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Started: 2019
Location: Cleveland, United States of America
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Labor

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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

Age…

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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

Radio information tablets with topics of interest to the elderly.
Develop a catalog of Information Pills on resources for the elderly (public toilets, discounts on municipal taxes, activities of civic centers, urban transport card, accessibility to shows), breaking old stereotypes to communicate through the Radio municipal.

The informative pills are 60 seconds, with a musical wedge…

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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