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Porto sem Diabetes

Porto Without Diabetes Initiative

This initiative, aligned with World Diabetes Day on November 14th, takes place annually in the Municipality between the 14th and 30th of that month. It consists of a set of coordinated activities that aim to contribute to a greater awareness and understanding of this disease among citizens, as well as its prevention…

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Started: 2017
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Education, Health, Long-term care

Sempre Acompanhados Program

Sempre Acompanhados – Always accompanied

Sempre Acompanhados is a programme of the Fundação “la Caixa”, of which the Municipality of Porto is a strategic partner. The methodology was developed and implemented in Spain in 2013 and launched in Porto in 2022, specifically in the Freguesias do Centro Histórico e Bonfim.

The “Sempre Acompanhados” programme aims to offer…

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Started: 2014
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Social protection

Pedalar Sem Idade Porto

The project “Pedalar Sem Idade Porto” offers electric trishaw rides for people with reduced mobility, aiming to reduce social isolation. It currently manages 60 volunteer cyclists from Porto and follows these guiding principles:

Generosity: It begins with a generous act of taking one or two elderly people or those with reduced mobility for a…

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Started: 2018
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Health, Social protection

From Granny to Trendy

From Granny to Trendy is a programme for active ageing and empowerment through the upcycling of second-hand clothes for women over 50 who are no longer active, in a co-implementation model that engages the social network and local communities in which these women live. As a result, we promote new skills by sharing experiences and…

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Started: 2013
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Education, Labor, Social protection

Reformers

Reformers believes that there is no age limit to learning and seeks to combat ageism and social isolation among the senior population. The project is characterized by a set of recreational and educational activities (such as ballet, swimming, makeup, skating, ceramics, and samba) aimed at stimulating the cognitive and motor skills of seniors, ensuring the…

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Started: 2017
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Other

SaudavelMente – Healthfully

Porto City Council Launches New Wellness Program for Seniors

The “Saudavel-Mente” program promotes physical activities that enhance muscular strength, mobility, and balance.

It takes place every Wednesday, between 10:30 am and 11:30 am, at the Piscina da Constituição facilities.

Aimed at promoting active and healthy aging, the program is based on basic concepts of traditional kenpo.

It is open…

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Started: 2022
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Health

Porto Pedonal – Pop

Porto Pedonal Pop consists of the definition of a demonstrative map of the network of continuous pedestrian paths and living spaces in the territory, with the aim of gathering criteria to support decision-making and typologies of intervention in the public space, namely, for the installation of benches throughout the city.

The promotion of walking routes lacks…

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Started: 2023
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Urban development

Táxi Saúde +65

Available 24 hours a day Taxi Saúde +65 service allows a Porto Card holder aged 65 or over to take a taxi for €2 to travel from an address in Porto to a health center or public/private hospital located in the Municipality, or for a return journey from one of these health establishments.


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Started: 2021
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Transportation

Táxi +65

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has had a direct impact on the decline in demand for health care among older people, and it was essential to ensure a rapid return to preventive and diagnostic health care. Public taxi transport provides accessible, reliable, safe, comfortable and affordable travel for the population aged 65 and…

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Started: 2022
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health, Transportation

Laboratório de Inovação Social do Porto (Porto’s Social Innovation Lab)

The Laboratório de Inovação Social aims to promote collaborative experimentation with new solutions to social problems in the city of Porto. Starting from a policy of failing fast and well, it proposes to develop a model of structured experimentation – based on processes and methodologies of impact, and on promoting the spill-over of the knowledge…

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Started: 2023
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Information and communication

Wat(t)er FabLab – 3D impression in Operations

Several structures and equipment in the public water supply network on the public highway are made of ferrous materials and are therefore subject to frequent vandalism and their own natural corrosion and deterioration. In this regard, the aim of this project is to remedy these anomalies through the manufacture and installation of 3D bioplastic parts…

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Started: 2023
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Urban development

Pedestrian zones and PlayTime – Municipal Parklets

Under the theme “Rescuing Public Space for Pedestrians”, these initiatives aim to dynamize and improve the use of public space, promoting inclusion and accessibility.

  • Zonas Pedonais Temporárias – Temporary pedestrian zones

The municipal measure is part of a plan to reclaim public space, aiming to promote a new leisure and shopping experience in the city. Additionally, within…

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Started: 2020
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Urban development

Acessibilidade nos Transportes

Evaluated

This program is the responsibility of the Porto Collective Transport Society (STCP), a municipal company that values a policy of integration and massification of public transport for people with reduced mobility. The company reached the goal of having an accessible network composed of 100% of vehicles with lowered floors and 66% with ramps.
STCP’s policy…

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Started: 2007
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Other

No Porto a Vida é Longa

Evaluated

It`s a municipal program that encourages those over 60, city residents, to regularly practice sports, through a single annual symbolic payment.
This program operates throughout the year, except in August. The program’s available modalities are: gymnastics, cardio fitness, cycling, water activities, pilates, tai chi, yoga, boccia, latin dances and zumba.
The activities are prepared and…

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Started: 1998
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Health

Rua Direita

Rua Direita is an ambitious municipal program for the deep rehabilitation of the city’s fine network of public spaces, which have not received any intervention for decades.

The program aims to restore circulation and enjoyment conditions to public spaces in areas that have long been forgotten.

Geographically comprehensive, the Rua Direita program is located throughout the city’s…

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Started: 2018
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Urban development

Estamos Juntos

Estamos Juntos Program aims to reduce the social isolation of the senior population, caused by increased longevity, the decline or absence of social networks and the lack of social responses.It is considered that the reduction of social isolation is structuring for the promotion of successful aging.The Program presents itself as a free solution for participating…

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Started: 2019
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Social protection

Jornadas CAPI – Cidade Amiga das Pessoas Idosas

Evaluated

On September 19, 2019, the Municipality of Porto promoted the I Seminar – Porto, Age-Friendly City, where the various projects that contribute to a better quality of life, to the happiness and sense of belonging of senior people, were made public.
This seminar meant to inform and involve the city in the projects that have…

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Started: 2019
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Information and communication

Contas à Vida

Considering that the current socioeconomic context, in which financial products and services are increasingly electronic, this reality demands that financial education for the senior public assumes a preponderant role for their protection, since, the more informed they are, the more better decisions they will be able to make.

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Started: 2019
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Information and communication, Labor

Porto Importa-se

The municipality developed an inquiry addressed to the elderly citizens who live in social isolation in social housing districts of the city of Porto. The main guiding principles are problem identification link between the identified elderly citizens and the different social responses. The purpose is to also counterpart the formal responses with an extended volunteer…

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Started: 2019
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Social protection

Quem Sou Eu?

Evaluated

This project’s goal is to tell the stories of these people’s lives, by means of Artwork Expressions, which culminates in public presentations to the community. A pilot experiment took place in 2018 in a vulnerable territory of the city. In 2019 the project was extended to other territories.

 

Watch the summary video in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvrxhbCUaso


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Started: 2018
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Other

O Porto é Lindo! – Roteiros Turísticos +65

Evaluated

This program consists of guided tours to various emblematic spaces in the city and is intended for people aged 65 and over. The main objective of this project is to provide seniors quality free time, increasing access to immovable and moveable cultural and religious heritage means of cultural enrichment all the while promoting active citizenship…

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Started: 2018
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Information and communication

Residências Partilhadas para Idosos

This project is developed in the city of Porto to providing answers to two specific social problems, namely: precarious housing and social isolation. Through this project, seniors are lodged in social housing, which they share with other seniors, who are in the same situation, and they are supported by a Social Institution, that provide the…

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Started: 2019
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Housing

Porto Amigo program

Evaluated

Porto Amigo is a program that carries out reconstruction, repair, and improvements to the homes of people in a vulnerable economic situation to enhance mobility and health. These construction works are carried out by both national and international university students, that are volunteers in the Just a Change Association (partner of the project) and, if…

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Started: 2009
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Housing, Social protection

Aconchego Program

Evaluated

The Aconchego Program was implemented by Porto City Hall in 2004, in partnership with the Academic Federation of Porto (FAP). It has a double social mission: combat loneliness and isolation of seniors and facilitate accommodation for university students new to Porto. The increase in the population of older people and expensive accommodation for the families…

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Started: 2004
Location: Porto, Portugal
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Housing, Other, Social protection

Porto

Porto
Portugal

The city of Porto is aging rapidly and in 2021, according to official data, we reached an aging index of 220, much higher than the national average of 182.

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City population: 23196226 % over 60Joined Network in 2010