Category:
User Experience
Net4Age Ontology Terms:
aging
, citizen
, community
, inclusion
, participation
, people
, wellbeing
Description:
23 questions to measure how older adults perceive the age-friendliness of their city
Overview:
N early 2020, the municipality of The Hague awarded the consortium consisting of The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Hulsebosch Advies and AFEdemy to develop a questionnaire and run a representative survey on the perceived age-friendliness of the city among its older citizens. Part of this survey was the development of a validated questionnaire, which allows for an assessment of the perceived age-friendliness. In order to do justice to the superdiversity of the population of The Hague, the municipality also wanted a representative number of older Western and non-Western immigrants to be included in the sample.
Objectives:
The consortium developed and validated a total of 64 questions to measure the whole construct of age-friendly cities. The result is the AFCCQ with 23 questions. More information: The questionnaire in Dutch and English is free to use. It might be necessary to culturally validate it.
Initiatives:
The AFCCQ is available for every city, community or other organisation to use on every geographical level. It could be axpanded in its application alla around the World
Shortcomings:
The recruitment of respondents, especially Western immigrants.Need of a cultural validation
Relevance:
4
Relevance Description:
It is a crucial tool for the AFE initial City's assessment
Quality:
3
Opinion:
AFCCQ has got a high potential one the cultural validation and the immigrants engagement dimensions are solved.
Recommended:
Yes
Overlap:
No
Overlap Detail:
Sources:
https://extranet.who.int/agefriendlyworld/afp/the-age-friendly-cities-and-communities-questionnaire-afccq/
Keywords:
Health, Housing, Information and communication, Long-term care, Transportation, Urban development, Age Driendly Environments
Submitted By:
Joost van Hoof/Willeke van Staalduinen
Email:
oscarzanutto@gmail.com