This video from the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) Design for Aging Committee and Age-Friendly Boston gives older adults a voice by highlighting several older adults from different walks of life sharing their own stories of life in Boston.
Age-Friendly Communities Evaluation Guide: Using Indicators to Measure Progress
The Public Health Agency of Canada has developed an Age-Friendly Communities Evaluation Guide as part of its commitment to promote the Age-Friendly Community model throughout Canada. The guide provides information and tools to measure indicators of age-friendliness....
The Case for Age-Friendly Communities
This report from Grantmakers in Aging sets the stage and provides a value-proposition for age-friendly communities.
Our Parents, Ourselves: Health Care for an Aging Population
This report, supported by The John A. Hartford Foundation, explores the care experienced by older adults in the U.S., including the number and types of care providers they see, along with the frequency with which they have contact with the health care system. It...
Collective Impact Forum
The Collective Impact Forum is a resource for people and organizations using the collective impact approach to address large-scale social and environmental problems. Supported by a partnership with FSG and the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions, the...
Older Adults: Tips for Caregivers
The “Tips for Caregivers” section of CDC’s Health Literacy website has a list of resources for caregivers who serve older adults. For example, the Palliative Care Communication Institute created “A Communication Guide for Caregivers” to help families talk about cancer...
Older Driver Safety Report 2015
This report distills information from more than 40 presentations from the 2015 Older Driver Safety Summit, covering four interrelated topics related to safer driving for older adults: infrastructure, medical issues, mobility, and policy. Source: UMass Boston...
Aging in Place: A State Survey of Livability Policies and Practices
Aging in Place: A State Survey of Livability Policies and Practices is a research report by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the AARP Public Policy Institute that offers state legislators and officials examples of state laws, policies, and programs...
Shaping Ageing Cities: 10 European case studies
This study looks at two global issues in aging: the global populating is aging at an unprecedented rate, and the global urban population is now larger than the rural population. Case studies examining the following ten European cities including Amsterdam, Berlin,...
World report on ageing and health
"The World report on ageing and health outlines a framework for action to foster Healthy Ageing built around the new concept of functional ability. Making these investments will have valuable social and economic returns, both in terms of health and wellbeing of older...