Knox City Council’s Community and Council Plan defines Knox’s long-term plan to guide our city. Each 4-year plan outlines our long-term shared goals and our aspiration for the future – what we are aiming to achieve for our city and how we will know when we get there.

Underpinning the Community and Council Plan, our Child, Youth and Seniors Plan identified key issues across life stages, provided direction for Council’s response across and between these life stages and set out a framework to assist Council to determine its role and service response to current and future reforms. Many of the action items have been guided by and mapped to the WHO Global Age Friendly Cities Guide and Age-Friendly domains. The responsibility for delivering most of those actions is with the Community Access and Support team.

The Community Access and Support team provide a range of services to older people including Delivered Meals, Occupational Therapy, Home Modifications, Home Maintenance, Community Transport, Housing Support, Social Connections programs, intergenerational programs and positive & healthy ageing initiatives.

To continue to be more age-friendly, the Community Access and Support team will remain engaged with our older community through our Knox Active Ageing Advisory Committee, Knox Bright Ideas Network (current subscription of 1600+ members) and Commonwealth Home Support Programme clients and carers. We will do so through community engagement – that puts our older community at the centre of our thinking, planning and actions.