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Origin of age-friendly city

The World Health Organization (WHO) initiated the Global Age-friendly Cities Project in 2005. Based on the focus groups with elderly people, caregivers and service providers in 33 cities around the world, WHO identified the key features of an age-friendly city in eight domains of an urban life and highlighted elderly people’s concerns and daily issues they faced.

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8 domains of an age-friendly city

Select a domain
Outdoor Spaces and Buildings
Transportation
Housing
Social Participation
Respect and Social Inclusion
Civil Participation and Employment
Communication and Information
Communication support and health services

Outdoor Spaces and Buildings Communication and Information Transportation Communication support and health services Housing Civil Participation and Employment Social Participation Respect and Social Inclusion domain city
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WHO Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities

The WHO Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities (“the Network”) was established in 2010 to connect cities and communities worldwide with the common vision of making their communities more age-friendly. The Network provides a global platform for information exchange, experience sharing, and mutual learning.

“An age-friendly city designs and adapts their natural and built environment for residents of all ages. It is barrier-free, designed for diversity, inclusive and cohesive, which enable people to stay active, connected and able to contribute to the economic, social, and cultural life in their community. Becoming age-friendly can make a city a choice for all generations – a great place to live, have a family and grow old happily.”

 

WHO Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities

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More resources about age-friendly city

National programmes for age-friendly cities and communities: A guide

Global Age-friendly Cities: A Guide

Checklist of Essential Features of Age-friendly Cities

Measuring the Age-friendliness of Cities: A Guide to Using Core Indicators

The Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities: Looking back over the last decade, looking forward to the next

World Health Organization publications on age-friendly city

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published five important publications relating to age-friendly city, including (i) a guide to provide the rationale and a practical, step-by-step approach for developing national programmes for age-friendly cities and communities; (ii) a guide to introduce the origin of AFC concept and 8 domains and engage cities to become more age-friendly; (iii) a checklist to set out the essential features of an age-friendly city; (iv) the guidelines on core indicators to measure age-friendliness; and (v) a report to give a global overview of the progress that cities and communities had made in the past decade towards becoming more age-friendly.

“Age-friendly Tour” card game (Chinese version only)

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The “Age-friendly Tour” card game was designed taking reference to the findings of baseline assessment on age-friendliness in the 18 districts of Hong Kong under the Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project, and the current situation of Hong Kong. Players can understand more about the eight domains of an age-friendly city and the age-friendliness of Hong Kong through playing this game.

 

To get the board game, please contact Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies of Lingnan University at 2616 7425 (First-come, first-served, and while stock lasts)

 

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