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Age-friendly cities – key milestones
WHO research and guidance 2007
Global Network of Age-friendly
Cities 2010
Age-Action Alliance 2011
Ageing Well resource 2012
UK Urban Ageing Consortium 2012
UK Age-friendly City Network 2012
WHO affiliation 2013
WHO Age-friendly City domains
Social participation
Respect and social inclusion
Civic participation and
employment
Housing
Transportation
Outdoor spaces and public
buildings
Community support and
health services
Communication and
information
The Dublin Declaration
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Promoting awareness of older people and their needs.
Ensuring the views of older people are listened to and valued.
Adopting measures to develop places that are inclusive to all but
particularly for older people.
Promoting and supporting the development of inclusive communities
that include housing for older people.
Working to establish public transport systems that are available and
affordable for older people.
Promoting the participation of older people in the social and cultural
life of their community.
Promoting and supporting the development of employment and
volunteering opportunities for older people.
Ensuring a comprehensive and integrated range of affordable, easily
accessible, age-friendly and high quality community support and
health services is available to older people.
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Creating age-friendly cities and communities goes beyond active and
positive living and health needs, public health outcomes and the
persistence of health inequalities. Through the adoption of an agefriendly 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.
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“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
cities show us a different, more connected, future.” (Beard …quoted by
Parry 2010)
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The opportunity for Wales to take a leadership role in Europe on
developing Age-Friendly Communities
www.bjf.org.uk/age-friendly