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Summary

Positive Ageing Week (PAW) is an Age Action Ireland initiative. The focus is on community based events, organised by groups and individuals throughout Ireland, and national events organised by Age Action and its partners.

This September 28th to 2nd October Positive Ageing Week Festival is going online across the counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford and Wexford. This is a regional initiative which is funded by Healthy Ireland and it involves the local authorities across the 5 counties, the HSE and members of the Older Peoples Councils across the 5 counties and it is being led by staff from Tipperary County Council.

We have 3 themes to showcase our content over the week encompassing Health and Wellbeing, Information Sessions and Culture and Diversity.

Website: https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/community-and-economic-development/positive-ageing-week-2020

Key facts

Main target group: Older people in general

Other target group(s): as the platform was online the intention is to ask younger people to link in with Older People to showcase and support older adults to engage

Sector(s): Health, Housing, Labor, Long-term care, Other, Social protection

Desired outcome for older people:
Learn, grow and make decisions

Other issues the Age-friendly practice aims to address:
  • Participation

Contact details

Name: Fiona Crotty

Email address: fiona.crotty@tipperarycoco.ie

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

Engaging the wider community

Project lead: Local authorities

Others involved in the project:
  • Local authorities
  • Older People’s Association
  • Social or health care provider
  • Volunteers

How collaboration worked: This was a partnership project funded by Healthy Ireland involving the HSE, the Older Peoples Council and the local authority

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

Details on older people’s involvement: the Older Peoples Council chairs from the 5 counties involved participated in a weekly working group

Moving forward

Has the impact of this age-friendly practice been analysed: No

Do you plan to evaluate your age-friendly practice? Yes

Expansion plans:
This action was developed as part of a regional forum and we will work towards developing further actions

Looking back

Challenges:
The main challenges were how to digitally engage with those not digitally competent and engaged. To address this we specifically targeted younger adults to engage with their friends, family and neighbours. In addition the content captured will be available on the 5 local authorities websites after Positive Ageing Week so that all of the topics that are of benefit to older people will be available. The HSE have in particular engaged with the nursing home sector so that the information could be screened at these settings.