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S T U D Y T O U R
21-23 FEBRUARY 2018
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The Academy on Age-Friendly Environments in Europe B.V., herein after referred to as
AFEdemy, is pleased to announce its first Study tour to Age Friendly Ireland, in particular
Meath, Cavan and Louth County. Our mission is to support and increase the capacity of
regional, local and community stakeholders to design, implement and monitor age-
friendly environments (AfE) policies, practices, places and programmes. AFEdemy will
draw together, organise and deliver a programme of courses, study tours, exchange
programmes and workshops tailored to the needs of their participants. The programme of
the Irish study tour has been developed in close cooperation with Age Friendly Ireland, and
they support the study tour in many ways.
Background: In 2007 WHO launched the concept of age-friendly cities, and since then
many cities and communities have joined the Global Network on Age Friendly Cities and
Communities (GNAFCC). As a member of the global network, cities and communities
pledge to improve the age-friendliness of their locality, committing to put in place policy
and implementation measures to secure development towards age-friendly environments.
In Europe the concept of age-friendly environments is very well received. European
mayors signed the Dublin Declaration on Age-friendly Cities and Communities in Europe in
2013. One of the action groups of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and
Healthy Ageing (2012-2018), is dedicated to fostering age-friendly environments. The
‘Covenant on Demographic Change, Towards an Age-friendly Europe’ was launched in
December 2015. The Covenant strongly connects with the Dublin Declaration and the
supports of GNAFCC. In this context the study tour to Age Friendly Ireland takes place.
In order to get the most profit out of the study tour, we highly recommend the participants
to be as open as possible and share their visions, their current situation (challenges and
needs), knowledge, expectations, etc. with the other participants and the guides of the
study tour. In preparation of the study tour we will compose an introduction leaflet with the
background, expectations and contact details of the participants. Let’s share and benefit
from each other!
AFEdemy | Academy on Age-friendly Environments in Europe B.V.
Kattensingel 89, 2801 CE Gouda, The Netherlands | VAT: NL857557439B01
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Javier Ganzarain Willeke van Staalduinen
Barcelona Gouda
M: +34 65 371 2513 M: +31 6 51 053 949
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National Age Friendly Programme
The ageing of our population will represent one of the most significant
demographic and societal developments that Ireland has encountered.
The number over the age of 65 is expected to increase substantially,
reaching 1.4 million by 2040 or about 23% of the total population. Across
this same period the number over the age of 80 is set to quadruple. The implications for
public policy areas as diverse housing, health, urban and rural planning, transport, policing,
the workplace and the business environment are considerable.
Minister of State for Mental Health and
Older People, Jim Daly TD at the recent
launch of Carlow Age Friendly Strategy
with CE Kathleen Holohan & Catherine
McGuigan
A now nation-wide network of Age Friendly City and County multi-agency, multi-sectorial
Programmes is now in place. The national Age Friendly Ireland programme, hosted by
Meath County Council, coordinates this nation-wide network and in doing so brings
together, supports and provides technical guidance to the 31 local authority-led,
multiagency Age Friendly City and County Programmes. Under the leadership of the local
authority, local governance is anchored in the multi-agency Age-Friendly Alliances,
supported by broadly representative Older Peoples’ Councils actively engaged as co-
design partners. The Age Friendly City and County Alliances provide the collaborative
framework to involve senior leaders from key stakeholders such as the local authority,
HSE, An Garda Síochána, Chambers of Commerce, third-level institutions, and others, who
have sufficient influence and resources to develop and deliver ambitious and collaborative
Age Friendly City and County Programmes. The National Age Friendly Ireland Programme
entered a transition period at the end of December 2016 with the objective of creating a
national centralised service, embedded in local government, to support the on-going
development, implementation and sustaining of the programmes strategy. The focus for
the new centralised support service will be to lead the national programme, continue to
connect the existing 31 local programmes and to support scaling and mainstreaming of
age friendly practices with a focus on demonstrating how best practice can influence
national policy.
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Under the leadership of Jackie Maguire, Chief Executive, Meath County
Council, the National Age Friendly Ireland programme is being hosted
by Meath County Council to continue the on-going development and
effective & efficient management of the programme.
Over the last eight years significant progress has been made across
Ireland in adopting the global World Health Organisations Age Friendly
Programme framework. To date 31 City & County programmes across
26 counties have established and are committed to embedding age
friendliness through improved sustainable built environments, lifetime housing, improved
public spaces, accessible public & private services, timely and accessible transport,
sustained rural development and improved economic development. Internationally Ireland
is considered as a front runner country in terms of the achievements it has made. Without
the leadership of local government and the collaboration of key agencies at both local and
national level, this would not have been possible.
Governance is anchored in a National Advisory Group made up of senior stakeholders who
will provide the oversight for the National Age Friendly Programme and include Local
Authority Chief Executives, Department Assistant Secretaries, HSE National Director, An
Garda Siochana Assistant Commissioner and Chambers Ireland. The strategic objectives of
the programme going forward will be to:
• Provide the national catalyst for the provision of technical guidance to support each
Age Friendly City and County Programme in moving through strategy development to
advanced implementation
• Inform and influence policy and service development at both national and local level
• Optimise programme quality and impact by supporting wide-scale application of
innovative, effective and sustainable age-friendly practices
• Support the national structures including the National Network of Older Peoples
Councils to ensure that the collective voice of older people representing the diversity
of older people in Ireland is reflected.
The National Network of Older Peoples Council is a representative body
of Chairpersons from Older Peoples Councils across Ireland and
convenes nationally to surface national issues, share learning & best
practice, network, forge relationships and support the communication
of the programmes work. The National network is chaired by Bob
Gilbert, Chairperson, Cavan Older Peoples Council.
Jackie Maguire, Chief Executive, Meath County Council
Bob Gilbert, Chairperson, National Network of Older
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Over the past 8 years we have consulted with over 20,000 older people which has led to
the implementation of a huge volume of good practice at local level. Through our
partnership approach with the Department of Health & HSE the Healthy & Positive Ageing
Initiative (HaPAI) has conducted a baseline with 11,500 older people across Ireland and
produced a set of Positive Ageing indicators. The opportunity is to use this data from the
baseline to support the scaling up local models of good practice into the consistent
application of proven age friendly initiatives across the wider network of Age Friendly
Counties. The contribution of older people in this collaborative approach has facilitated this
unprecedented success. The programme looks forward to continuing this growth in
partnership with older people to ensure Ireland is truly age friendly for our current
population & future generations.
Catherine McGuigan
National Age Friendly Ireland Programme Lead
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Programme Study tour Age-Friendly Ireland FEB’18*
DAY 1 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2018 14:00
16:00
18:00
• Departure hours from terminal 1 and terminal 2 at Dublin Airport
• Transport to Bellinter House, Navan
• Check-in Hotel
Flexibus, Dublin
Airport
15:00-19:00 Check-in Bellinter House, Navan Bellinter House
19:00-20:00 • Welcome by AFEdemy ltd., Javier Ganzarain and Willeke van
Staalduinen
• Tour de table
• Introduction Study tour by Javier Ganzarain
• WHY Age-friendly environments by Willeke van Staalduinen
Bellinter House
20:00-21:30 Dinner Bellinter House
DAY 2 THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2018
07:00-08:30 Breakfast Bellinter House
08:30-09:00 Transfer to Summerhill, Meath Co. Flexibus
09:00-11:00 • Third Age – A national voluntary organisation celebrating the
third age in life when people may no longer be in paid
employment, but can remain healthy, fulfilled and continue to
contribute to society.
• Overview of Ireland’s Age Friendly Programme by
Catherine McGuigan, National Age Friendly Programme
Manager, WHAT and HOW to realise age-friendly environments.
Including introductory video about Men’s Sheds in Ireland
(http://menssheds.ie/).
• Presentation by Liam Carey, Overview of Third Age and its
various programmes, e.g. Senior Line (national confidential
listening service by trained older volunteers for older people),
Fáilte Isteach (older volunteers welcoming migrants through
conversational English classes), Sage (Support and Advocacy
Service)
• Tour of Third Age
Summerhill
11:00-13:00 • Transfer to County Cavan with a short stop off at Avoca Store,
Café, Food Market and Garden Centre (Dunboyne, Co. Meath)
• Lunch package in the bus
Flexibus
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13:00-16:30 • Visit to Conn Smith Memorial Park to include Bóithrin na
Smaointe (Memory Walk) and Lavey Lake
Conn Smith Memorial Park is a multi-generational shared play
space, ‘A great place for all the family to get involved’.
The ‘memory walk’, Boithrin na Smaointe, was installed by the
Cavan Alzheimer’s Association. We will also visit Lavey Lake
where the area has been upgraded with flowers and benches,
wheelchair accessible areas and a walkway along the shore front
of the lake. Lavey community have also been successful in their
campaign, which has been spearheaded by the older people to
introduce the new bus shelters that are in place.
• Visit Cavan Age Friendly Businesses and Cavan Older
Persons Council
We will visit a number of businesses to see the changes they
have made and chat to both customers and businesses owners to
see how the training has improved the footfall of older people to
their shops / services and how these customers feel that it has
made a difference to their shopping experience.
Overview of Cavan Age Friendly Programme by Sinead Tormey.
Cavan Co.
16:30-17:45 Transfer to Bellinter House Flexibus
20:00-21:30 Dinner Bellinter House
DAY 3 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2018
07:00-08:30 Breakfast and check out Bellinter House
08:30-09:00 Transfer to Flexibus Office at Navan Flexibus
09:00-10:00 Visit to Flexibus (Meath Accessible Transport), Providing
innovative transport service models that meet the needs of all
people in Counties: Meath, Louth and Fingal
Presentation by Miriam McKennan
Flexibus Office
10:15-10:45 Transfer to Newgrange at Drogheda Flexibus
10:45-12:00 Visit Newgrange is a Stone Age monument in the Boyne
Valley, County Meath, Ireland.
It is the best know Irish passage tomb and dates to c. 3200 BC during
the Neolithic period, which makes it older than Stonehenge and the
Egyptian pyramids. Newgrange is a large circular mound with a stone
passageway and chambers inside. The mound is ringed by
'kerbstones' engraved with artwork.
http://www.worldheritageireland.ie/bru-na-boinne/built-
heritage/newgrange/
Newgrange
12:00-12:40 Transfer to Dundalk Local Authority Flexibus
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12:45-13:45 Working lunch with presentations on Social, Economic,
Environmental Impact Tool
Age-friendly Housing
Dundalk, Louth
Co
14:00-15:00 Site visit Great Northern Haven,
A purpose-built development of sixteen ‘smart’ apartments built to
enable independent living and enhance the quality of life of older
residents.
https://www.dkit.ie/news/great-northern-haven-best-practice-
model-independent-living-older-people
https://www.netwellcasala.org/great-northern-haven/
Dundalk, Louth
Co
15:00 - 17:00 Action plan, WHY, WHAT and HOW age-friendly environments and
wrap-up, led by AFEdemy ltd.
Lessons learned and making your action plan.
Available guides and standards.
Dundalk, Louth
Co
17:00-17:30 Bus transport to Airport Dublin Flexibus
* Times are indicatory. The organization reserves the r ight, under exceptional
circumstances, to modify the program and the condit ions.
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REGISTRATION FORM
Study tour to Age Friendly Ireland 21-23 February 2018 Participation fee: 650,00€ per person, VAT excluded.
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BOOKING TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF AFEdemy
By booking or participating in a tour and any related products or services (herein after
referred as “service”) with AFEdemy you agree to these Terms & Conditions
The study tour to Age Friendly Ireland includes 2 nights at Bellinter House (Navan),
breakfasts, lunches and dinners, transport within Ireland, transfer to and from Dublin
Airport, site visits and entrance fees. Costs 650,00€ per person, VAT excluded.
General payment terms
50% of the total sum is due 14 days after reservation and in case of the Age Friendly Ireland
study tour before January 10, 2018. The final sum must be paid before January 31, 2018. If
the reservation is done less than 21 days before the beginning of the study tour, the whole
amount of reservation has to be paid immediately. In any case, all due amounts are to be
paid before the beginning of the study tour.
All payments will be done following this method of payment:
Method of payment Bank transfer within 14 working days Bank name ING
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General terms of cancellation
In case of cancellation, we use the cancellation policy as mentioned below. There are no
extra charges if the participant will be replaced by a colleague of the same company,
unless, change fees from 3rd parties apply, which shall then be paid by the company itself.
Notice of cancellation by email only Date Return percentage of the paid amount
Notice until 50 days before 02/01/2018 80%
Notice until 40 days before 14/01/2018 60%
Notice until 21 days before 30/01/2018 0%
In case AFEdemy has to cancel the tour, participants get refunded the whole booking
amount, minus 95,00€ per person administration costs.