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Creating Aging-Friendly Communities

Published on May 12, 2010September 22, 2014 by clifton.barber

UC Berkeley’s Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services and Community Strengths host a website on Creating Aging Friendly Communities. You can join a free resource network that includes a weekly online discussion, and interactive, online tools to learn and build capacity for change. It also affords access to the “Collaboration Cafe” where you can interact with others who share in interest in creating aging-friendly environments.

They also provide a 6 page document on Environmental Policy Change:  Building Communities to Support Healthy Aging that discusses why environments matter and describes the influence of the social, physical, and built environment on older adult health.

Categorized: Civic Engagement, Design Considerations, Health, Housing, Mobility / Transportation
Tagged: Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services

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In 2008, the Sierra Health Foundation joined the Helen Andrus Benedict Foundation, MetLife Foundation and The California Endowment in support of an online conference offered by the Friendly Communities Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services at the University of California at Berkeley. This unique conference series was designed to support individuals and organizations nationwide in their planning to make communities more aging-friendly. Participants had an opportunity to engage with nat
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