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A Commentary on Blue Zones? A Critical Review of Age-Friendly Environments in the 21st Century and Beyond

Category: User Experience

Journal paper: Abstract: This paper explores the intersection of the World Health Organization's (WHO) concepts of age-friendly communities and The Blue Zones?checklists and how the potential of integrating the two frameworks for the development of a contemporary framework can address the current gaps in the literature as well as consider the inclusion of technology and environmental press. The commentary presented here sets out initial thoughts and explorations that have the potential to impact societies on a global scale and provides recommendations for a roadmap to consider new ways to think about the impact of health and wellbeing of older adults and their families. Additionally, this paper highlights both the strengths and the weaknesses of the aforementioned checklists and frameworks by examining the literature including the WHO age-friendly framework, the smart age-friendly ecosystem (SAfE) framework and the Blue Zones?checklists. We argue that gaps exist in the current literature and take a critical approach as a way to be inclusive of technology and the environments in which older adults live. This commentary contributes to the fields of gerontology, gerontechnology, anthropology, and geography, because we are proposing a roadmap which sets out the need for future work which requires multi- and interdisciplinary research to be conducted for the respective checklists to evolve.

Category: User Experience

Erasmus project to co-create with older adults the best solutions

Age Friendly Ireland

Category: User Experience

Age Friendly Ireland is an organisation responsible for the national Age Friendly Programme, affiliated to the WHO Global Network of Age Friendly Cities & Community. The programme involves a multiagency, multi-sectoral approach to age-related planning and service provision. Age Friendly Ireland supports cities and counties to be more inclusive of older people by addressing their expressed concerns and interests under the eight pillars of the World Health Organization's global programme with city and county based stakeholders making commitments to shared action plans addressing pillars spanning housing, our health services, built environment, transport and employment.

Category: User Experience

Book:in this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers critically assess the problems and the potential of designing age-friendly environments. The book considers the different ways in which cities are responding to population ageing, the different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly policies and practices.

Age-Friendly Environments Activists

Category: User Experience

The overall objective of the Age-friendly Environments Activists project is to support and train older adults who want to: - promote and foster age-friendly environments in their cities and communities and - to influence municipal agencies in their decision making

Age-friendly in practice

Category: Best practices

Many cities and communities are already taking active steps towards becoming more age-friendly. A dedicated website, Age-friendly World, supports them in this endeavor by providing a one-stop-shop on age-friendly action at the local level: guides and tools, age-friendly practices and information on hundreds of city and community initiatives around the world.This website aims to support a global community that works together towards this vision of an age-friendly world. Age-friendly World creates a place for people and organizations all over the world to share what they know and learn from others.Age-friendly World is co-produced with members and Affiliates of the Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities.

Category: User Experience

The project scope involved: ?a demographic and population-based spatial analysis providing a snapshot of aging in Peel Region; ?development of an Age-friendly Built Environment Audit Tool, tailored to the context of Peel Region; ?a current-state assessment of eight sample neighbourhoods with regards to age-friendly built environments; ?consultation with seniors, caregivers, younger adults, and organizations serving seniors; and ?recommendations to address gaps and opportunities discovered through the neighbourhood audits.

Age-Friendly Transportation

Category: User Experience

Age Friendly Ireland is the organisation responsible for the national Age Friendly Programme, affiliated to the World Health Organization's [WHO] Global Network of Age Friendly Cities and Communities. The programme involves a multiagency, multi-sectoral approach to age-related planning and service provision. Age Friendly Ireland supports cities and counties to be more inclusive of older people by addressing their expressed concerns and interests under the eight pillars of the World Health Organization's global programme.

Agile Ageing Alliance

Category: User Experience

The Agile Ageing Alliance (AAA) aims to demonstrate that through innovations in technology, business and service models, our homes and Neighbourhoods of the Future can be reimagined to boost health and wellbeing, and promote independent living, leading to a reduction in the financial burden on Citizens and State.