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Work Place Mentoring Programme

The Age Friendly Island Mentoring Programme is a scheme which focuses on supporting older people in gaining new experiences, skills and knowledge through the support of a work place mentor.

The delivery of a pilot programme in partnership with local charity Learning Links and employer Red Funnel (local transport/ferry company) was completed in December 2018. Feedback…

Started: 2018
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Education, Labor

Older and Wiser Radio Show

Since 2018 Vectis Radio, a local community radio station on the Isle of Wight, has presented a twice monthly show in partnership with Age Friendly Island. The show features Age Friendly Island partners representing public, private and voluntary sector organisations who are all working to improve the Isle of Wight community for older people. It…

Started: 2018
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Information and communication

Facilitating intergenerational understanding and activities

One of the elements of the Age Friendly Island Programme focuses on encouraging intergenerational understanding and activity to reduce social isolation. A member of staff is dedicated to ensuring that younger and older communities have a greater understanding of each other and how they can learn from, and support each other.

They facilitate this by hosting…

Started: 2016
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Education, Information and communication

Dementia Friendly Church Services

Dementia Friendly Church Services have been running on the Isle of Wight since 2014. Initially Age Friendly Island worked together with St. John the Baptist Church in Ryde to look at the best way to make church services more accessible to people living with dementia and to support the needs of older people.

Dementia Friendly Church…

Started: 2014
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Information and communication, Other

Age Friendly University Global Network

The AFU Global Network led by Dublin City University (DCU) is committed to working to promote and support an inclusive approach to healthy and active aging. Since commencing in 2012 DCU developed Ten Principles of an Age-Friendly University which set out a framework for institutions of higher education to embrace age-friendly practices. In DCU we…

Started: 2012
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Education, Health, Housing, Information and communication, Labor, Long-term care, Social protection, Transportation

Le mobilier urbain au banc d’essai

Evaluated

Dans le cadre de son plan d’actions « Rennes, ville amie des aînés », la direction des Personnes âgées (DPAg) a décidé de proposer le 29 mai 2015 à des personnes âgées et/ou en situation de handicap de tester plusieurs de ces mobiliers afin d’intégrer des préconisations pour le choix des futurs bancs et chaises…

Started: 2015
Location: Rennes
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Urban development

The ‘Lane Cove Connection’

The Lane Cove Connection is a monthly newsletter developed and published by Council each month focussing on people over 55. It contains items and articles of interest to the reader, for example articles on Men’s Health Week, Mental Health Month, and information on health, technology and other services that are locally available. There is a…

Started: 2009
Location: Lane Cove, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Information and communication

Salon, conférences et ateliers pour bien vieillir chez soi

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La Ville de Metz organise depuis octobre 2015, tous les deux ans, un salon dédié à l’habitat des seniors à l’Hôtel de Ville.
Des conseils pour bien vivre chez soi sont proposés en présence de nombreux professionnels dans le cadre de stands et conférences.
L’échange direct avec les acteurs de l’habitat du territoire permet une…

Started: 2015
Location: Metz, France
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Housing, Information and communication

Vivre aux vignes : une formule pour bien-vieillir chez soi

Le dispositif « Vivre aux vignes » s’inscrit dans la continuité des domiciles collectifs (DOCOS), apparus à Grenoble au début des années 1980. Il s’agit d’un dispositif innovant qui vise à proposer une alternative entre le domicile (chez-soi isolé) et la maison de retraite médicalisée (EHPAD), accessible à des aînés aux ressources modestes. L’une des…

Started: 1980
Location: Ville de Grenoble, France
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Health, Housing

La résidence “La Note Bleue”

La résidence la Note Bleue a pour objectif de permettre de vivre le plus longtemps possible à domicile grâce à des logements adaptés. Nous avons choisi un lieu d’implantation en plein coeur du centre-bourg pour un accès privilégié aux services et aux commerces. En 2010, le département du Rhône a encouragé la création d’une charte…

Started: 2011
Location: Limonest, France
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health, Housing

NeighborLink Indianapolis Low-Income Senior Home Repairs

Evaluated

The mission of NeighborLink Indianapolis is to offer an improved quality of life to very low-income senior homeowners and homeowners with disabilities in Indianapolis, Indiana by providing free home repairs and modifications necessary to allow older people to remain in their own homes safely and with dignity. Many of these homeowners are living in unsafe,…

Started: 2013
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Housing

Building A Seniors’ Campus – Age-Friendly Housing Practice

Evaluated

County of Simcoe’s vision was to build a state-of-the-art, “60+” adult lifestyle community compatible with an “aging at home” philosophy to meet the increasing need for varied older adult housing options. Georgian Village is a campus that features an entire continuum of housing alternatives to support varied socio-economic needs offering many levels of care ‘under…

Started: 2013
Location: Simcoe County Age-Friendly Community, Canada
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Education, Health, Housing, Information and communication, Labor, Long-term care, Social protection, Transportation

Advancing Age-Friendly Housing Policies

As an aging city with a very limited stock of age-friendly housing, Portland’s Age-Friendly Advisory Council recognized the need for policies to better support the development of age-friendly housing. Our age-friendly practice consists of the development of an equitable housing goal and 10 age-friendly housing-related policies, as articulated in Portland’s 2035 Comprehensive Plan, which took…

Started: 2016
Location: Portland, United States of America
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Housing, Transportation, Urban development

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