AFC Webinar: Connecting Communities Across Generations: The Power of an Intergenerational Approach
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Webinar: Connecting Communities Across Generations with an Intergenerational Approach
Intergenerational programs unite the young, old and in-between in ways that enrich participants’ lives and help address community challenges. Join us for an engaging webinar exploring the impact of intergenerational programs. Learn how bringing together different age groups promotes mutual learning, strengthens community bonds and enhances quality of life. Our speakers will present success stories…
2024 Age-friendly Communities Grants open for application
Community grant funding applications aimed at helping older adults in B.C. lead independent and active lives are now open! Local and Indigenous governments, organizations, and communities can submit applications for 2024 grants to BC Healthy Communities (BCHC) starting July 10, 2024, and closing August 26, 2024. These governments, organizations, and communities may apply for a…
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…