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NYC: Age Friendly

Published on December 17, 2014December 17, 2014 by Libby Bestul

Age Friendly NYC is New York City’s plan to sustain and enhance its age-friendliness for its growing population of seniors. The plan grew out of extensive dialogue with older New Yorkers, as well as leaders from the academic, private and non-profit sectors about what older people need and want from an age-friendly city. 

This program has 59 specific initiatives focused on four areas: community and civic participation, housing, public spaces and transportation, and health and social services.

Their most recent report (2013) can be accessed online:  59 Initiatives Age-Friendly NYC. The report clearly lists the initiatives by the 4 topic areas (listed above and named in the margin of the page), under additional subheadings (i.e. employment and economic security, volunteerism, etc.), and a brief written status.  The colored bar on the report highlights whether the initiative is fully launched (green) ongoing (purple) needs more work (yellow) or suspended (red).

This list could be helpful for generating ideas usable in Wisconsin and other places across the country.

 

 

Categorized: Aging-Friendly Community Examples, Civic Engagement, Health, Housing, Mobility / Transportation

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Structural Barriers to Developing ‘Aging-Friendly’ Communities

A 2007 issue of the Public Policy & Aging Report (vol. 17, pgs. 15-20) included an article by Chun Lehning and Andrew Scharlach, “Structural Barriers to Developing‘Aging-Friendly’ Communities.” The article describes two structural barriers to developing ‘aging-friendly’ communities. The first type involves policies that have evolved over the past century, resulting in structural barriers to aging-friendliness in the areas of land use regulations, housing policies, transpo

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Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities

The World Health Organization (WHO) provides some interesting statistics on their “Ageing and Life Course” page that link to fact sheets on the same topics.  For example they state that 2 billion people will be aged 60 and older by 2050. That statement leads to a post on “10 facts on ageing and the life course” with a great slide show of those facts.  This could be incorporated into a presentation on aging in your community. In addition to learning from their website,
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