Global Database of Age-friendly Practices

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Sunderland’s age friendly baseline position

Sunderland’s age friendly baseline position:Sunderland City Council and its partners have prepared a baseline position to establish current age friendly practice in the city. This is our first step in making Sunderland even more age friendly.

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Location: Sunderland, United Kingdom
Sectors: Urban development

TKO Dementia Friendly Community Service Program : Dementia Friendly Community Symposium

Addressing needs of older people with dementia and their families has always been one of the main focuses of the Age-Friendly Working Group in the Sai Kung District of Hong Kong SAR, China. The Group comprises government departments, elderly representatives and non-governmental organizations. The Working Group collaborates with Haven of Hope District Elderly Community Service,…

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Started: 2015
Location: Sai Kung District Hong Kong, China
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health

How Age-Friendly is Ottawa? An Evaluation Framework to Measure the Age-Friendliness of Ottawa

Age-friendly Ottawa conducted an assessment to measure Ottawa’s age-friendliness. The assessment involved the creation of a local framework for action. Based on the assessment, we know more about the physical environments – outdoor spaces and buildings, transportation, and housing – than the social environments. In fact, three of the social age-friendly areas, social participation, civic…

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Started: 2016
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Sectors: Information and communication

Banyule Best Biz Awards include paper based and online voting

Evaluated

In 2015 Banyule held the inaugural Banyule Best Biz Awards. Residents were encouraged to vote online for their favourite local business under a number of categories. Unfortunately, not all residents who shop locally were able to vote online. In particular the older adults within our community who may not feel comfortable, may not have the…

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Started: 2016
Location: Banyule, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Social protection

Liverpool’s Older People Awards (November 2016)

Evaluated

Liverpool’s Older Peoples Awards were organised by Liverpool Registered Social Landlords, Liverpool City Council and partner agencies who work and support ‘Older People’ in the city. The awards are for over 65’s and community groups catering for older people, with prizes of up to £500.00 on offer.The awards pay tribute to the achievements of remarkable…

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Started: 2014
Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Social protection

Liverpool Winter Warmth Campaign (2016)

Evaluated

The Winter Warmth Campaign involved the delivery of 1500 hamper packs to older adults in their homes. Information leaflets on keeping warm, safe and healthy was included within the packs. The reps delivering the packs engaged with tenants and asked questions about welfare benefits, utility bills and provided information, advice and signposted if required. Following…

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Started: 2011
Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Health

The Tsuen Wan Footbridge Network

Evaluated

Situated between Kowloon and the New Territories, Tsuen Wan serves as a major link between the western part of the New Territories/Lantau and the urban area, and is the gateway to the airport. Its sound transportation network, added with its numerous scenic spots and a full range of community facilities, has made it attractive to…

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Started: 2009
Location: Tsuen Wan District Hong Kong, China
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Urban development

Engagement of older adults in Age-friendly Banyule

Residents may be involved on the Age–friendly Advisory Committee, the Champion program and the Think Tanks.These three levels allow people to participate and contribute to creating an Age-friendly Banyule at the level at which they feel most comfortable. The Advisory Committee contributes to the development of the program as well as providing advice to Council…

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Started: 2014
Location: Banyule, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Information and communication

Making GP Surgeries Age Friendly

As part of the Age Friendly Island Programme, we have been working with Tower House Surgery in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, to understand what needs to be in place to make GP Surgeries Age Friendly.With Tower House’s Patient Participation Group and the Age Friendly Island Public Forums we worked together to produce a…

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Started: 2015
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Health

Hamilton Senior of the Year Awards and Gala

The Senior of the Year Award has been around for the last 22 years in Hamilton but since 2014 the awards program has evolved. In 2013, an organizing committee comprised of City staffers and members of the Seniors Advisory Committee came together to begin planning for a new awards program where many seniors are recognized…

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Started: 2014
Location: Hamilton, Canada
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Labor

The Senior Connector Program

Evaluated

The Senior Connector program is a volunteer program offering resources and referrals to seniors, their families and caregivers. Senior Connectors empower others with knowledge to make informed decisions. Connections are made by senior volunteers through face to face contact with their peers in the communities where they live.In 2013 Volunteer Halton, a program of Community…

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Started: 2014
Location: Region of Halton, Canada
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Information and communication

Memorial boxes – a way to find (lost) memories

“Looja” is a non-profit organization with older people as members. The organization is located in the capital city Tallinn but operates all over Estonia. Its goal is to allow older people to be active, appreciate the lived years, remember forgotten memories and energise creativity. The organization begun its work in 2005 with the production of…

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Started: 2005
Location: older people who live in nursing home or elderly care home, Estonia
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships

CreandoRED

Evaluated

CreandoRED is an initiative developed in 2015 initially by Fundación Navarro Viola. It is develop in partnership with a group of cultural and social organisations and individuals like professionals and older adults volunteers which aims to create platforms for conversation, learning, collaborative experiences between staff of cultural and social institutions to create a collective commitment…

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Started: 2015
Location: BuenosAires, Argentina
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute

Rock Through The Ages – a musical get together for all ages

Rock Through The Ages is a social participation initiative based on the PhD research of Dr Julia Jones, the CEO of Found in Music. The primary aim is to harness the popular music taste of several generations to facilitate events that encourage inter-generational social participation. These events were first run in this community between 2011…

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Started: 2011
Location: Folkestone / Shepway, Kent, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships

New service: Better sleep with digital home care

Evaluated

For senior citizens with home care services who sleeps restlessly, are easily awakened or don’t wish to have personal visits, supervision through a webcam may be an alternative. It can also be a complement to traditional supervision (personal visit). The new service, which is performed by one of the City of Gothenburg’s own home care…

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Started: 2017
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Long-term care

Life Filming – a win-win method

Evaluated

How can we introduce modern technology to seniors and at the same time share their experiences, needs, memories and knowledge? The Life Filming method focuses on content and form, using images as a point of departure. This lifts participants over the barriers of technology.

We live in a visual culture, surrounded by images and films. Equally…

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Started: 2017
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Information and communication

“The Sixty-Plus Center”: An employment center to Jerusalem residents aged 60 and over

In 2015, the municipality of Jerusalem together with the National Insurance Institute, the JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) and Shipur organization established an employment- assistance center for residents aged 60 and over to provide job-training workshops, job-search assistance after retirement and new technologies-skills workshops. These workshops provide the seniors with solo- as well as group assistance…

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Started: 2015
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Labor

Age Friendly Business

East Lindsey is a project funded by Big Lottery’s Ageing Better Programme and is aimed at reducing isolation and loneliness amongst older people. Full details of our activities and strands can be found on our website http://tedineastlindsey.co.uk/. The project is managed by the charity Community Lincs.Included in our project is the Age Friendly Business award.…

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Started: 2016
Location: East Lindsey, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute

Co-production of Leeds Age Friendly Charter

Building on our long history of consultation and co-production with older people, a new age friendly charter has been developed by the Leeds Older People’s Forum Time to Shine team on behalf of our Age Friendly Leeds Partnership.  Through consultation with 176 older people around Leeds (via focus groups and written questionnaires), Time to Shine…

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Started: 2016
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Labor

SENIORS EXPO – Northern Territory

Evaluated

Council on the Ageing Northern Territory (COTA NT) organises a SENIORS EXPO, the only event of its kind in the Northern Territory, once a year and invites seniors’ community groups, organisations, service providers, businesses with a seniors’ focus and local, Territory and Australian government agencies to attend and contribute through holding an activity, running stall…

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Started: 2015
Location: Darwin, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute