Our Member Pauline Boland presented NET4Age-Friendly in #EGen2022, where she also approached the work under WG1 so far on evaluating international age-friendly guidelines.
She left the following personal post to other members reporting on her successful experience:
“I was supported by NET4Age-Friendly to attend the 2nd European Conference on Gerontology and Aging, held in University College London from the 15th – 17th of July, with a day of key note speeches online on Thurs 16th July. This was a much-welcomed opportunity to be ‘face to face’ again! While airport chaos was not part of the dream, the chance to be in a room hearing people speak and discuss important topics including age-inclusive university campuses in the USA, care facilities in Belgium and homes in Trinidad and Tobago was one I relished. On Sunday the 17th, I presented the NET4Age-Friendly COST Action, its aims and structure, highlighting work from a sub-group within Working Group (WG) 1 User-centred inclusive design of age-friendly environments and communities, where we have sourced and appraised international guidelines for age-friendly design, focusing on user involvement in design creation. As this is a work in progress, it was great to hear comments from the audience and a few attendees discussed possibly joining to extend our work into non-English centred guidelines, which is our next objective. I presented work which was developed by myself and cross-disciplinary colleagues Dr Helen Kelly, (Ireland), Dr Roxana Cziker (Iceland), Dr Hing-Wah Chau (Australia), Dr Paulo Silva (Portugal), Stefan Danschutter (Belgium) and Agnieszka Ciesla (Poland).
If there are other members of NET4Age with an interest in this area and/or have access to publicly available guidelines in any language, we would love to hear from you!
You can follow me on Twitter @PaulineBolandOT”