From 2015 to 2017, the municipality of Nordre Aker in Oslo led a pilot project to support the City of Oslo in their ambition of becoming more age and dementia-friendly. Among the most well received pilot projects was the age-friendly session “Dance with Me”, providing a one-hour group dance session focusing on strength, flexibility, balance…

Memory Lane is an age-friendly and universally designed outdoor meeting place in the Ullern district of Oslo. Memory Lane is a result of citizen involvement and cross-sectoral cooperation. It wouldn’t have been possible to implement without those two key factors.

Memory Lane is for everyone in all generations. You can come with a wheeled bag, a…

Oslo is proud of and places great importance on our volunteers, in particular senior volunteers. In order to increase awareness of the efforts of the city`s volunteers, a conference for volunteering seniors was organised in April 2015. The conference for Volunteering Seniors had three main goals: (1) Recognition of the contributions of senior citizens through…