Age-friendly Communities Evaluation Guide
The Public Health Agency of Canada has prepared the Age-Friendly Communities Evaluation Guide to provide communities with practical information on how to use indicators to measure progress and evaluate their age-friendly initiatives. Age-friendly communities are those communities that are taking steps to help their older residents remain healthy, active and independent, and to continue to make important…
Governement of Canada’s resource on Age-friendly Communities
Canada’s senior population is growing. This makes it more important than ever to support the health and well-being of older Canadians. This way, seniors can lead healthy and active lives and stay involved in their communities. Making communities “age-friendly” is believed to be one of the best ways to do this.
Global Age-friendly Cities: A Guide
Population ageing and urbanization are two global trends that together comprise major forces shaping the 21st century. At the same time as cities are growing, their share of residents aged 60 years and more is increasing. Older people are a resource for their families, communities and economies in supportive and enabling living environments. WHO regards…
Aging in Rural Communities and Small Towns
A newsletter of the National Advisory Council on Aging examines aging in rural communities and small towns in this guest editorial.
Age-friendly Rural and Remote Communities: A Guide
A guide for seniors in rural and remote communities to increase awareness of what seniors need to maintain active, healthy and productive lives within their communities. It was also developed to identify common barriers and to foster dialogue and action that supports the development of age-friendly communities.
Age-friendly Cities and Older Indigenous People: An Exploratory Study in Prince George, Canada
Cities around the world are responding to aging populations and equity concerns for older people by developing age-friendly communities plans, following the World Health Organization’s guidelines. Such plans, however, often fail to account for the wide diversity of older people in cities, with the result that some older people, including Indigenous older people, do not…
Applying an Equity Lens in Age-friendly Communities Planning
A PDF of an infographic explaining what an equity lens is all about.
B.C. Elders’ Guide
The First Nations Health Authority and Province of B.C. released this BC Elders’ Guide to ensure that Elders, their families and caregivers have access to information about the programs, services and resources they need.
Age-friendly Communities Action Guide
This guide is for local governments of rural and urban communities across British Columbia who want to create active, healthy and thriving places for people of all ages. The number of older adults is growing in communities across B.C., and many want to remain in place—in their homes and communities—as they age. Local governments play…