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Age friendly Champions (volunteers)

Residents championing Banyule as an age-friendly city have just celebrated their third birthday and are putting out the call to others to join them. Since Council’s Age-friendly Champion initiative started in 2014, 100 Banyule residents have been trained to be Age-friendly Champions and been involved in a string of projects that improve the quality…

Started: 2015
Location: Banyule, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Information and communication

Tech and Tea a technology five week course for Older People

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The programme is based on the Gulbenkian report on older people, technology and community: The benefits of technology… is how technology can foster improved social interaction, engaging older people in their communities and promote high quality face-to-face contact. It is a programme of informal digital skills development for residents over the age of 65 years…

Started: 2016
Location: Salford, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Information and communication

Akita Age-Friendly Partner Program

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In order to promote creating the Age-friendly City with private sectors, Akita City registers private companies and organizations as Age-friendly partners, which are encouraged to continue their efforts under the Akita Age-Friendly Partner Program.

Examples of the Partners’ Efforts

・Eliminating steps and installing handrails for buildings

・Installing benches available for public use

・Installing AED in the offices for employees…

Started: 2015
Location: Akita
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Education, Health, Housing, Information and communication, Labor, Other, Transportation

Young and Gold Intergenerational Urban Art Project

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Art has a unique way of connecting people across age groups. The Young and Gold Intergenerational Urban Art Project provided young people and seniors the opportunity to participate in an urban art community project at Golden Bay foreshore. The following objectives were achieved: The number of seniors who reported feeling comfortable communicating with young people…

Started: 2016
Location: Rockingham, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships
Sectors: Other

Seniors and Carers Expo

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The City of Rockingham has facilitated an annual Seniors and Carers Expo since 2009. The goal of the expo is to provide seniors and carers with information on the services, programs, activities and community/support groups available to them. The expo aligns with the WHO Age-friendly domain ‘Communication and Information’ which highlights that staying connected with…

Started: 2009
Location: Rockingham, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Information and communication

Engagement with council libraries and community hubs

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The Hutt city council in partnership with Age Concern (an NGO) started a programme for seniors who were all clients of Age Concern accredited visitor service. They are people who are identified as socially isolated and lonely. Once a month a group of seniors are picked up from home by a volunteer driver in a…

Started: 2016
Location: The city of Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships

Sharjah Mobile Medical Center

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The mobile medical clinic is a field clinic, furnished and equipped with large medical devices. It offers services to elderly people and disabled people, and those who face difficulty in moving. It moves among the houses of the elderly people in different areas of Emirate of Sharjah. The mobile clinic treats the simple cases and…

Started: 2016
Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health

Sunderland’s age friendly baseline position

Sunderland’s age friendly baseline position:Sunderland City Council and its partners have prepared a baseline position to establish current age friendly practice in the city. This is our first step in making Sunderland even more age friendly. Read more »

Location: Sunderland, United Kingdom
Sectors: Urban development

TKO Dementia Friendly Community Service Program : Dementia Friendly Community Symposium

Addressing needs of older people with dementia and their families has always been one of the main focuses of the Age-Friendly Working Group in the Sai Kung District of Hong Kong SAR, China. The Group comprises government departments, elderly representatives and non-governmental organizations. The Working Group collaborates with Haven of Hope District Elderly Community Service,…

Started: 2015
Location: Sai Kung District Hong Kong, China
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Health

How Age-Friendly is Ottawa? An Evaluation Framework to Measure the Age-Friendliness of Ottawa

Age-friendly Ottawa conducted an assessment to measure Ottawa’s age-friendliness. The assessment involved the creation of a local framework for action. Based on the assessment, we know more about the physical environments – outdoor spaces and buildings, transportation, and housing – than the social environments. In fact, three of the social age-friendly areas, social participation, civic…

Started: 2016
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Sectors: Information and communication

Liverpool Winter Warmth Campaign (2016)

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The Winter Warmth Campaign involved the delivery of 1500 hamper packs to older adults in their homes. Information leaflets on keeping warm, safe and healthy was included within the packs. The reps delivering the packs engaged with tenants and asked questions about welfare benefits, utility bills and provided information, advice and signposted if required. Following…

Started: 2011
Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Health

The Tsuen Wan Footbridge Network

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Situated between Kowloon and the New Territories, Tsuen Wan serves as a major link between the western part of the New Territories/Lantau and the urban area, and is the gateway to the airport. Its sound transportation network, added with its numerous scenic spots and a full range of community facilities, has made it attractive to…

Started: 2009
Location: Tsuen Wan District Hong Kong, China
Desired outcome for older people: Be mobile
Sectors: Urban development

Engagement of older adults in Age-friendly Banyule

Residents may be involved on the Age–friendly Advisory Committee, the Champion program and the Think Tanks.These three levels allow people to participate and contribute to creating an Age-friendly Banyule at the level at which they feel most comfortable. The Advisory Committee contributes to the development of the program as well as providing advice to Council…

Started: 2014
Location: Banyule, Australia
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Information and communication

Making GP Surgeries Age Friendly

As part of the Age Friendly Island Programme, we have been working with Tower House Surgery in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, to understand what needs to be in place to make GP Surgeries Age Friendly.With Tower House’s Patient Participation Group and the Age Friendly Island Public Forums we worked together to produce a…

Started: 2015
Location: Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Health

Hamilton Senior of the Year Awards and Gala

The Senior of the Year Award has been around for the last 22 years in Hamilton but since 2014 the awards program has evolved. In 2013, an organizing committee comprised of City staffers and members of the Seniors Advisory Committee came together to begin planning for a new awards program where many seniors are recognized…

Started: 2014
Location: Hamilton, Canada
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Labor

The Senior Connector Program

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The Senior Connector program is a volunteer program offering resources and referrals to seniors, their families and caregivers. Senior Connectors empower others with knowledge to make informed decisions. Connections are made by senior volunteers through face to face contact with their peers in the communities where they live.In 2013 Volunteer Halton, a program of Community…

Started: 2014
Location: Region of Halton, Canada
Desired outcome for older people: Learn, grow and make decisions
Sectors: Information and communication

Memorial boxes – a way to find (lost) memories

“Looja” is a non-profit organization with older people as members. The organization is located in the capital city Tallinn but operates all over Estonia. Its goal is to allow older people to be active, appreciate the lived years, remember forgotten memories and energise creativity. The organization begun its work in 2005 with the production of…

Started: 2005
Location: older people who live in nursing home or elderly care home, Estonia
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships

Creando Red

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CreandoRED is an initiative developed in 2015 initially by Fundación Navarro Viola. It is develop in partnership with a group of cultural and social organisations and individuals like professionals and older adults volunteers which aims to create platforms for conversation, learning, collaborative experiences between staff of cultural and social institutions to create a collective commitment…

Started: 2015
Location: BuenosAires, Argentina
Desired outcome for older people: Contribute
Sectors: Education

Rock Through The Ages – a musical get together for all ages

Rock Through The Ages is a social participation initiative based on the PhD research of Dr Julia Jones, the CEO of Found in Music. The primary aim is to harness the popular music taste of several generations to facilitate events that encourage inter-generational social participation. These events were first run in this community between 2011…

Started: 2011
Location: Folkestone / Shepway, Kent, United Kingdom
Desired outcome for older people: Build and maintain relationships

New service: Better sleep with digital home care

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For senior citizens with home care services who sleeps restlessly, are easily awakened or don’t wish to have personal visits, supervision through a webcam may be an alternative. It can also be a complement to traditional supervision (personal visit). The new service, which is performed by one of the City of Gothenburg’s own home care…

Started: 2017
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Desired outcome for older people: Meet their basic needs
Sectors: Long-term care

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