The AARP published a revision of the Liveable Communities: An Evaluation Guide in 2005. The guide is comprehensive and still very useful today. The purpose of the guide is to help residents and community leaders take a new look at the community or neighborhood in which they live. The guide helps residents follow a process to […]
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In May 2007, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (in collaboration with the MetLife Foundation) published a guide designed to help communities build the collaborations needed to create aging-friendly communities. This guide, “A Blueprint for Action: Developing a Livable Community for All Ages”, can be accessed online on the Aging In Place Initiative […]
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The 47-page document (Word format) addresses 10 categories of “elder-friendly” communities. Each section of the document includes questions to help direct community discussion and information gathering plus supportive information.
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Started in 1999, the AdvantAge Initiative helps counties, cities, and towns prepare for the growing number of older adults who are “aging in place” while creating livable communities for people of all ages. To this end, the AdvantAge website contains a variety of useful information, include national survey data, examples of “best practice”, fact sheets, presentations, […]
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This report, the fifth in AARP’s “Beyond 50” series , presents a new agenda for examining, building and retrofitting our communities to support successful aging. Specifically, it… explores how people age 50 and older can continue to be independent and able to exercise choice and control in ways that are beneficial to and affordable for them […]
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