Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment
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Journal paper: Abstract: The development of ?ge-friendly cities' has become a major area of work in the field of ageing and the built environment. This movement is driven by the observation that cities are home to an ever-increasing ageing population. Over the past decade, a multitude of age-friendly initiatives have been developed with the aim of making physical and social environments more favourable for older people's well-being, health and ability to live in the community. This article explores ten key questions associated with the age-friendly cities and communities' movement, with a particular focus on the built environment. It provides an overview of the history of the age-friendly cities' movement and the underlying models, the aspects of the built environment that are relevant for age-friendly cities, the ways age-friendliness can be evaluated, and the interactions between age-friendly cities initiatives and other strategic agendas such as smart cities. The paper concludes by discussing future perspectives and possible directions for further development of the age-friendly movement.
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Kobo hosts and maintains KoboToolbox, a data collection, management, and visualization platform used globally for research and social good. Our mission is to support open source data systems and technology for humanitarian action, development, environmental protection, peacebuilding, and human rights.
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The Kaleidoscope of Culture is a yearlong project of culture of togetherness, which through different processes connects artists, cultural institutions, non-governmental organisations, citizens and tourists, in order to present places and programmes throughout the city, promoting a unique, distinct image of Novi Sad by the end of summer
Read MoreThe SCIROCCO Self-Assessment Tool for Integrated Care
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The SCIROCCO self-assessment tool is an online self- assessment tool with an objective to assess a region's readiness for integrated care. It builds on the conceptual Maturity Model for Integrated Care developed by the B3 Action Group on Integrated Care of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.
Read MoreThe State of Housing in Europe 2021
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Challenges and responses from the public, cooperative and social housing sector
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To make urban living for older adults easier, more independent, fashionable and comfortable
Read MoreWhat makes a community age-friendly: A review of international literature
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The paper reviews the international literature on age-friendly communities and identifies key attributes associated with creating a sustainable environment for seniors. It critically evaluates emerging policy trends and models and suggests directions for future research attention.
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Journal paper: Abstract: The World Health Organization (WHO) strives to assist and inspire cities to become more ?ge-friendly? and the fundamentals are included in the Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide. An age-friendly city enables residents to grow older actively within their families, neighbourhoods and civil society, and offers extensive opportunities for the participation of older people in the community. Over the decades, technology has become essential for contemporary and future societies, and even more imperative as the decades move on, given we are nearly in our third decade of the twenty-first century. Yet, technology is not explicitly considered in the 8-domain model by the WHO, which describes an age-friendly city. This paper discusses the gaps in the WHO's age-friendly cities model in the field of technology and provides insights and recommendations for expansion of the model for application in the context of countries with a high human development index that wish to be fully age-friendly. This work is distinctive because of the proposed new age-friendly framework, and the work presented in this paper contributes to the fields of gerontology, geography urban and development, computer science, and gerontechnology.
Read MoreWHO Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities (the Network)
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WHO Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities is a global community that works together towards a 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.A city or community can remain a member of the Network for as long as they can demonstrate continual improvement against developed indicators.
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