Age-friendly CommunitiesMarch 19th 2014

Alan Hatton-YeoThe Beth Johnson Foundation

WHO Age-friendly City domains

Social participationRespect and social inclusionCivic participation and employmentHousingTransportationOutdoor spaces and public buildingsCommunity support and health servicesCommunication and information

Age –Friendly Europe

• EY 2012 European Year of Active Ageing and intergenerational Solidarity

• Age-Platform Manifesto Age-Friendly Europe by 2020

• European Innovation Platform on Healthy Ageing D4 Action Group

• Launch European Network for Age-Friendly Environments

• Erasmus +• Horizon 2020

UK Urban Ageing Consortium launched July 2012

UK Age Friendly City Network launched September 2012,Includes Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast

Formally affiliated to the WHO Global Network of Age FriendlyCities and Communities 2013

Learning Network with strong research and evidence basis for moreInformation go to www.bjf.org.uk/age-friendly

National Ageing-Well Programme

European Innovation Partnership on Healthy Ageing Reference Site Status

Strategy for Older People 2013 - 2014

Structured on 5 core themes and based at the office of the Older Peoples Commissioner for Wales

Age Friendly Communities Thematic Network

Dublin Declaration and Commitments – all Local Authorities to sign formally

WHO recognition in 2014 All Age-Friendly Wales

Importance of Europe

• Creating age-friendly communities goes beyond active and

positive living and health needs, public health outcomes and the persistence of health inequalities. Through the adoption of an age-friendly approach to planning and decision making in all areas of public life, we are actively creating an environment that facilitates citizens’ social engagement regardless of their age.

• “It may have been well-meaning, but we now talk and think about maternal health, child health, old people’s health, this artificial compartmentalization marginalises older people. By making us think about how we all link to each other, regardless of our age, age-friendly communities show us a different, more connected, future.” (Beard …quoted by Parry 2010)