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BlueZones

Category: Best practices

Various information on BlueZones, projects, lessons learned, checklists

Bridge the Gap!

Category: User Experience

Older adults learn digital skills by applying age-friendly environments and usability

Category: User Experience

ByMaker is a web-based game developed at NTNU to raise awareness among children and youth about the importance of balancing all three sustainability pillars, social, economic, and environmental in urban transformations. In the same time the game is showing the children how the city of tomorrow could be and how they can make sustainable changes and decisions.

Category: Projects

City4Age will activate urban Communities to facilitate the role of social/health services and of families in dealing with mild cognitive impairments and frailty in the elderly population. The challenge is to demonstrate that Citiesplay a pivotal role in the unobtrusive collection of more data on individual behaviours, and with increased frequency. This can then greatly improve the early detection of risks through the timely analysis of changes in these behaviours and, finally, the design of effective interventions for countering these risks.

Category: User Experience

The Covid-19 pandemic, which emerged in Wuhan city of China's Hubei province inDecember 2019, affected the whole world in a short period of 3 months. The Covid19 outbreak, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization as ofMarch 12, 2020; was imposed significant restrictions on the use of open spaces, whichadversely affected the daily life of individuals physically, mentally and socially. Apartfrom the health problems experienced by people, it has also created many spatialchoices and changes. New preferences, where social distance is at the forefront, havestarted new venue organizations along with new requests. Although the changesexperienced with the Covid-19 pandemic may seem negative, they containopportunities that allow change and development. Making people's livingenvironments more functional, remembering the importance of nature and reviewingsocial relations can be evaluated in this context. Looking from history to the present,the Covid-19 pandemic is not the first and will not be the last. For this reason, thestudy aims to investigate the change in the spatial preferences in the society with thepandemic and to create an idea for the next pandemics. In this context, 289 peoplewere reached by using the online survey method and various questions were asked.Various results were obtained and interpreted by performing variance analysis, factoranalysis, correlation analysis, crosstabs test and frequency analysis (P?0.01) on theobtained data. As a result of the study, from the statistical data, it has been observedthat 'people are more oriented to nature' due to the Covid-19 pandemic and that opengreen spaces suitable for social distance are sought in spatial preferences. Thesefindings shed new light on the value of urban nature as resilience infrastructure duringa time of crisis.

Category: User Experience

ESSENSE consists of a transdisciplinary Strategic Partnership, bringing together higher education institutions, Vocational Education and Training (VET) institutions, business associations and representatives of social enterprises. Each bringing different expertise related to BIM, project management, Information and Communication Technologies as well as Smart Housing and Ambient Assisted Living, where collaboration will be reinforced on problems as important as the ageing population.

Category: Information

Provides resources and initiatives for creating age-friendly environments in healthcare, social care, and urban planning

GPII Developer Space

Category: Other

The one-stop place to find resources, components and people to conceive, develop, test and market new accessibility solutions

Category: User Experience

This paper presents a framework of spatial indicators to assess local environments based on the domains of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFC). The framework can be applied within local neighbourhoods, census tracts, suburbs, municipalities, or cities with minimal resource requirements other than applied spatial analysis.

Category: User Experience

Journal paper: Abstract: COVID-19 has impacted not only the health of citizens, but also the various factors that make up our society, living environments, and ecosystems. This pandemic has shown that future living will need to be agile and flexible to adapt to the various changes in needs of societal populations. Digital technology has played an integral role during COVID-19, assisting various sectors of the community, and demonstrating that smart cities can provide opportunities to respond to many future societal challenges. In the decades ahead, the rise in aging populations will be one of these challenges, and one in which the needs and requirements between demographic cohorts will vary greatly. Although we need to create future smart age-friendly ecosystems to meet these needs, technology still does not feature in the WHO eight domains of an age-friendly city. This paper extends upon Marston and van Hoof's ?mart Age-friendly Ecosystem' (SAfE) framework, and explores how digital technology, design hacking, and research approaches can be used to understand a smart age-friendly ecosystem in a post-pandemic society. By exploring a series of case studies and using real-life scenarios from the standpoint of COVID-19, we propose the ?oncept of Age-friendly Smart Ecologies (CASE)' framework. We provide an insight into a myriad of contemporary multi-disciplinary research, which are capable to initiate discussions and bring various actors together with a positive impact on future planning and development of age-friendly ecosystems. The strengths and limitations of this framework are outlined, with advantages evident in the opportunity for towns, regions/counties, provinces, and states to take an agile approach and work together in adopting and implement improvements for the greater benefits of residents and citizens.