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Niagara Age-Friendly Community Initiative 2009-2013
Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake
AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE
Raising awareness and encouraging action
Niagara Age-Friendly Community Initiative 2009-2013
Presentation Agenda

Building Awareness: Changing
Demographics and Aging Population
 WHO Age-Friendly Initiative, The
Facts, Effective Strategy, Benefits

Encouraging Action: Niagara AgeFriendly Community Initiative
 The Project, Actions, Vision
Committee, Resource Team,
Framework, Community
Consultations, Welland Pilot,
Partners

NOTL Age-Friendly Initiative
Niagara Age-Friendly Community Initiative 2009-2013
WHO Age-Friendly Initiative
 Niagara has joined a
global effort, led by the
World Health Organization
(WHO), to become an
age-friendly community.
 An age-friendly community
is one that enables all
citizens, indeed all
populations to live in
security, maintain their
health and participate fully
in society.
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The Facts Behind the Initiative
 The number of older persons (60+)
world wide will double from 600
million to 1.2 billion by 2025 (United
Nations)
 The number of older adults in
Canada 65+ has increased from
13.7% of the population in 2006
to14.8% in 2011 and it will continue to
grow until 2031
 Soon there will be more seniors
than youth under 15
 Soon there will be more people
leaving the workforce than
entering it
 Soon there will be more deaths
than births
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Contributing Factors
 Strong increase in the number of births in
the 20 years following World War II (19461965). Today 3 out of 10 Canadians are
baby boomers or 29% (Stats Can Census,
2011)
 The baby boomers started becoming
65 in 2011(Stats Can Census, 2011)
 People are living longer due to the
significant achievements in public health
and improved standard of living (WHO,
2007)
 The number of centurions is
increasing (Stats Can Census, 2011)
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Effective Strategy
 Making a community agefriendly is deemed one of
the most effective policy
approaches in planning for
the increase of our aging
population.
 Over 500 communities in
Canada are engaged in
age-friendly initiatives…
 The City of Welland is the
first in Niagara to be
recognized by the WHO.
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Benefits to Getting Involved
 Age-Friendly Benefits older adults
 Providing the security they need, a community
that maintains their health and supports their
participation fully in the community.
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Benefits to Getting Involved
 Age-Friendly Benefits Businesses
 If older adults make up a large proportion of
the consumer market spending $25 million a
year and older adults are loyal customers and
outspend younger shoppers then meeting the
needs of older adult consumers makes good
sense and increases the bottom line.
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Benefits to Getting Involved
 Age-Friendly Benefits Voluntary Organizations
 If client relationships are important then organizational policy,
practice and behaviours that meet older adults needs are
important
 If funding is important to voluntary organizations then agefriendly is a means to leverage funds, e.g., OTF
Niagara Age-Friendly Community Initiative 2009-2013
Benefits to Getting Involved
 Age-Friendly Benefits All Ages
 If the city builds bicycle lanes for older
adults, all cyclists benefit
 If citizens shovel snow from the
sidewalk for improved mobility for
seniors, a parent walking their child to
school benefits
 If the aim of transit is to give
independence for seniors, youth
benefit
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Niagara Age-Friendly Initiative
 Citizens aware of the issue
of a growing population of
older adults came together
in 2009.
 They wanted to build an
awareness of this issue and
encourage action that
respects and values the
needs and interests of all
populations, with a
particular focus on older
adults
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FOUNDATION
Project Partners
Niagara Age-Friendly Community
Initiative 2009 - 2013
Niagara Age-Friendly Strategic Plan
 Vision: A Caring Community for All Ages
Niagara is a caring community that
optimizes opportunities for an enhanced
quality of life as people age.
 Mission: Age-Friendly Niagara Project
Raise awareness of age-friendly principles
across all sectors of the community and
encourage action that takes into
consideration the needs of all citizens, with
a particular focus on older adults.
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Age-Friendly Resource Team
 The NAFCI provides a Community
Coordinator, the Niagara Research and
Planning Council as evaluators and
volunteers AT NO COST to assist each
community raise the bar on agefriendliness.
 Services include:
 Consulting with community
organizations and committees
 Facilitating community consultations
 Assisting communities in developing
an action plan
 Working together to promote agefriendly
 Providing a personal connection
 Supporting the application to join
the WHO age-friendly movement
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Age-Friendly Framework & Principles
 The framework for the Niagara
project is shaped by the agefriendly principles developed by
three leading age-friendly
initiatives:
 World Health Organization
 Public Health Agency of
Canada
 The Murray Alzheimer Research
and Education Program at
Waterloo University
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Community Consultations
 Agencies across Niagara have
hosted a series of roundtable
community conversations for
older adults applying the principle
framework
 The results will be used to develop
localized Niagara-on-the-Lake
Age-Friendly action plan
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The Pilot: Year-1 Report
 Principle Actions
 Seniors Advisory Committee
 Age-Friendly Local Action (Ad Hoc) Committee is acting on
priority actions identified from the needs assessment
 The World Health Organization has recognized Welland
for their efforts
 Community Report provides an overview of themes that
emerged from the needs assessment
 Full Report: http://www.nrapc.com/publications-resources/
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Community Partners
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Business:
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Lookout Ridge Pelham hosted a roundtable
conversation

Niagara This Week publishes a weekly agefriendly column written by volunteer contributors
Volunteer Agencies

Bridges Community Health Centre Fort Erie hosted
a roundtable conversation

CNIB contributed to the development of an AgeFriendly Assessment Tool
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Niagara50Plus is a website developed by
boomers for boomers. The principals are working
with the Niagara Age-Friendly Community
Initiative to enhance opportunities for older
adults’ civic participation: linking experience to
opportunity
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Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) funded the
initiative and maintains a website on aging and
the Not-for-Profit Sector
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Community Partners
 Public Sector
 Niagara Region Accessibility
Advisory Committee contributed to
the development of the AgeFriendly Assessment Tool (available
under separate cover)
 Niagara Regional Housing hosted a
series of roundtable conversations
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NOTL Age-Friendly
 Fact: Niagara-on-the Lake population is
ageing!
 2006 to 2011: 15.2% increase in number
of seniors
 2011: 25.9% of the population is seniors
 Why is this important?
 The ageing population is creating
challenges for older adults and their
community, e.g., available and
affordable housing, employment,
health care, transportation, etc.
Association Municipalities of Ontario
(2011)
 Niagara-on-the-Lake Age-Friendly makes
good sense
Census 2011
NOTL
0-14
15-64
65+
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NOTL Age-Friendly
 Age-Friendly is not an additional
project for staff or council
 Age-Friendly shares the same
principles as the Accessibility for
Ontarians with Disabilities Act
(AODA), the official plan, and
other municipal endeavours
 Being Age-Friendly enhances
the community work already
being done
 Being Age-Friendly optimizes
opportunities for an enhanced
quality of life as people age
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Niagara Age-Friendly
 Niagara Age-Friendly Community Initiative Requests:
 THAT the Council of the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake receives for
information the presentation by Virginia Stewart, Community
Coordinator and Dominic Ventresca, Co-Chair Management
Committee on behalf of the Niagara Age-Friendly Initiative and as a
follow-up to Report COM 11-2011 distributed to the Town of Niagaraon-the-Lake March 3, 2011; and, further
 That the Council receive the Year-1 Niagara Age-Friendly
Community Initiative Report; and, further
 THAT the Town of Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake affirm its
commitment to age-friendly principles; and, further
 THAT the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake staff be encouraged to
engage in age-friendly events to learn more about age-friendly and
contribute to the process; and, further
 THAT the information regarding age-friendly be forwarded to the
Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake Joint Accessibility Advisory Committee
and other Committees that consider the interest of older adults.
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Contact Information
Niagara Age-Friendly Community
A Community for All Ages
Virginia Stewart, BRLS ADED MA
Community Coordinator
2201 St. David’s Rd.
Thorold, ON L2V 4T7
905-685-1571 x 3869
[email protected]