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Housing for Older People: Evidence based Decision Making

Fingal Age Friendly Alliance established an interagency Housing Sub-Committee to ascertain the housing needs of older people and promote the development of Age Friendly Housing. Consultations with older people during the development of Fingal’s Age Friendly Strategy highlighted their wish to remain living in their own home and uncertainties around the availability of social, health…

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Started: 2016
Location: 3D Social Movement
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health, Housing

Intergenerational house-sharing for South Bay

ElderHelp’s HomeShare program uses existing housing stock to pair home providers with those who are seeking affordable housing. For years, adhering to the ElderHelp mission, HomeShare has focused on seniors in San Diego, either those that need housing or those that want a housemate in exchange for rent income. Now HomeShare has undertaken a new…

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Started: 2018
Location: San Diego, United States of America
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Housing

Ageing well at home: the common answer of the city and social landlords

Such as the national trend, Angers’ population is getting older; in 2020, a third of its population will be 60 years of age or more. Consequently, the number of dependent people already increases, simultaneously with an arouse isolation and impoverishment. To come to grip with these issues, the city and the social landlords have decided…

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Started: 2016
Location: Angers
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Housing, Long-term care, Urban development

CHORE Handyman Service–Older Adults Helping Older Adults

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Established in 1977 by the Bergen Volunteer Center, the CHORE Volunteer Handyman Service helps Bergen County, New Jersey residents 60 years and older, and/or adults with permanent disabilities, remain safe in their own homes by performing minor repairs for only the cost of parts. Repairs include installing grab bars, railings and smoke detectors; minor plumbing/electric,…

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Started: 1977
Location: Bergen County, New Jersey, United States of America
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health, Housing, Other

+Simple, digital inclusion for older people

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Within the framework of the Technology Inclusion Program, we delivered 106,550 tablets with the “+ Simple” platform to people over 60 years of age.

The platform groups content such as news, procedures, and social networks, as well as providing access to pages of interest. At the same time, older people were trained in the use of…

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Started: 2018
Location: BuenosAires, Argentina
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Education, Information and communication, Other

Cultivate Safety Net Services

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Boulder County is facing a boom in its aging population. According to the Boulder County Area Agency on Aging (BCAAA), Boulder County’s population is aging at one of the fastest rates in Colorado. With the senior population aging exponentially faster than younger populations, Boulder County struggles to meet seniors’ needs for nutrition, transportation, and engagement…

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Started: 2018
Location: Boulder County, United States of America
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health, Information and communication, Other, Transportation

Supportive Services for Elderly in HUD Assisted Housing

The HUD Supportive Services Demonstration (SSD), also referred to as Integrated Wellness in Supportive Housing (IWISH), leverages HUD’s properties as a platform for the coordination and delivery of services to better address the interdependent health and supportive service needs of its older residents. The demonstration is testing a model of housing and supportive services with…

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Started: 2017
Location: communities across the United States, United States of America
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Health, Housing, Information and communication, Social protection, Urban development

Sharps Exchange Partnership with local pharmacy and clients

Many of our seniors are frail, with mobility challenges and cannot dispose of sharps safely.  Instead, they leave them in the open or in garbage bags, creating an unsafe environment that could lead not just to painful pin pricks but to more serious consequences, even causing death. In an effort to increase safety in the…

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Started: 2017
Location: North York, Canada
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Education, Health, Social protection

Home Refurbishment Programme in the Barcelona province

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The purpose of the Home Refurbishment Programme in the Barcelona province (except for the city of Barcelona itself) is to guarantee minimum levels of accessibility, safety, hygiene, habitability and energy efficiency by carrying out refurbishment work in the homes of the most vulnerable older people. The aim is to meet the challenge of an ageing…

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Started: 2009
Location: Province of Barcelona (except the city of Barcelona), Spain
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Housing, Other

Tu vivienda amigable, consejos para lograrlo

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Desde la Secretaría de Integración Social de las Personas Mayores promovemos la participación y permanencia de las personas mayores en sus hogares y entornos, para alcanzarlo creamos el programa BA, Amiga de las Personas Mayores que busca mejorar la calidad de vida de la población mayor a partir de iniciativas que promuevan la accesibilidad en…

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Started: 2018
Location: BuenosAires, Argentina
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Health, Housing, Long-term care

Age Friendly Home Adaptation Building Permit

A No-Cost Building Permit: Every 11 seconds somewhere in the country an older adult is treated in an emergency room because of an injury due to a fall. 50% of falls occur at home. To help residents age 60 and older and younger adults with disabilities improve their home environment, Age Friendly Sausalito joined with…

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Started: 2018
Location: Sausalito, United States of America
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health, Housing, Urban development

Aconchego Program

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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

Une équipe citoyenne au service des personnes isolées

Le réseau de bénévoles de la Ville de Saint-Etienne a pour but de lutter contre l’isolement des personnes âgées en favorisant le maintien du lien social et l’engagement citoyen pour que la place de chacun soit valorisée dans la société.

L’objectif est de créer une alliance entre les solidarités publiques et une communauté civile…

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Started: 2018
Location: Saint-Etienne
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Other

City of Cockburn – Flash Mob

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Senior Flash Mob

Gateway shopping centre Tuesday 10 November 2015

City of Cockburn Seniors Week

Over 30,000 views on Facebook and wonderful comments

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Started: 2015
Location: Cockburn, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Health

Fit for Life Melville

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Fit for Life is a campaign developed to encourage the City of Melville’s older residents to start being physically active or return to being active.

With estimates suggesting lack of physical activity could be responsible the physical decline associated with old age, the campaign highlights it’s never too late to reap the health…

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

Housing Strategy

Housing has been identified as a priority area of concern by seniors since our baseline consultation in 2007, with older people requesting more diversity of housing choice.

A local Housing strategy was developed over the last few years and is currently being implemented. Engagement with older people on its development was significant and included a 47%…

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Started: 2018
Location: Melville
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Housing

Living Well with Dementia

City of Melville has the second highest number of people living with dementia compared to other cities in Western Australia (WA). With 70% of people with dementia live independently rather than in residential care and 30% of that group live alone.

Working closely with Alzheimer’s Western Australia (AWA), local businesses, community groups and most importantly local residents…

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Started: 2016
Location: Melville, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Education, Health, Information and communication, Social protection

Garden City Memory Café

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The City of Melville is home to the second highest number of people living with Dementia in Western Australia. Garden City Shopping Centre collaborated with the City of Melville to create the Memory Café.

Inspired by Melville couple, Keith and Wendy Glance, the Memory Café is Perth’s first monthly social gathering specifically for people living with dementia.

The Memory…

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Started: 2018
Location: Melville
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Other

Els meus records

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Convocatoria de un concurso de fotografia antiga digitalizada, con el objetivo de destacar el papel de las personas mayores en la història del municipio. Su experiencia y recuerdos son valores a conservar.
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Started: 2015
Location: Manresa
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Education, Information and communication, Social protection

Radars

Radars is a local network of prevention and detection of the solitude and isolation of the elderly, where residents, neighbors, traders, volunteers and services are involved in the different neighborhoods of Igualada.

This network is useful both for the elderly who live in this undesired situation, solitude, as well as for their relatives knowing that someone…

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Started: 2017
Location: Igualada, Spain
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Social protection

Modu-Lab’

Le Modu-Lab est un projet de Living Lab (méthode de recherche en innovation ouverte, qui vise le développement de nouveaux produits et services à travers un processus de co-création avec les usagers dans des conditions réelles) avec pour thématique l’autonomie au domicile et la mobilité. Il s’inscrit dans le quartier intergénérationnel d’Andromède, situé à Blagnac.…

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Started: 2014
Location: Toulouse Metropole, France
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Housing

Age Friendly Island Training

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The Age Friendly training was written in January 2016. It looks to address cultural attitudes among ageing focusing on physical barriers, physiological barriers and environmental barriers. We worked with a small Task and Finish group made up of senior leads from Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue, Hampshire Police, Southern Vectis (Local transport provider), to…

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Started: 2016
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Education, Health, Housing, Information and communication, Transportation

Improved Senior Bus Service

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Though the Montclair Senior Bus has been in operation for over 30 years, a consistent complaint was poor service and an inability to make changes to the route/service model.  Lifelong Montclair investigated options for improving the service and in 2016 decided to partner with a transportation organization to provide the service.  EZ Ride (our Transportation…

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Started: 2018
Location: Montclair
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Transportation