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Age-friendly Planning Articles, Tools & Resources

The BC Age-friendly Communities Program offers valuable tools and resources to support communities as they get started, and continue, to work to become more age-friendly.

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  • The importance of using an equity lens in Age-friendly Communities planning. 
  • BC Healthy Communities newly administers the Age-friendly Communities Grant Program
  • Healthy aging through an equity lens: Older adults experiencing homelessness
  • How the eight domains of Age-friendly Communities impact social connectedness
  • The role of neighbourhoods and residents in developing Age-friendly communities

BC Ministry of Health Age-friendly BC Toolkit to support communities working to be more Age-friendly

  • BC Healthy Communities: Age-friendly Communities Action Guide (PDF, 2MB)
  • BC Healthy Communities On-demand Webinar: Creating Age-friendly Communities—Approaches for optimizing your assessment and planning process
  • BC Healthy Communities: Applying an Equity Lens in Age-friendly Communities Planning (PDF, 249KB)
  • First Nations Health Authority: BC Elders’ Guide (PDF)
  • Age-Friendly Cities and Older Indigenous People: An Exploratory Study in Prince George, Canada
  • Age-friendly Rural and Remote Communities: A Guide (PDF)
  • Aging in Rural Communities and Small Towns (PDF)
  • WHO Global Age-friendly Cities: A Guide (PDF, 1.4MB)
  • Public Health Agency of Canada: Age-friendly Communities
  • Age-Friendly Communities Evaluation Guide: Using Indicators to Measure Progress (PDF, 1.5KB)

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