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What is Age-Friendly?
It’s helping older adults stay active, independent and engaged with
family, friends and community for as long as possible.
What’s an Age-Friendly City?
It’s a great place to grow up and a great place to grow old!
It involves local volunteers working together to create a
community that’s livable for ALL ages.
It recognizes the potential of its most experienced citizens (likely
the community’s only growing natural resource), and finds new
ways to engage all residents.
Senior Population Growth
in Sonoma County
In 2005, Sonoma County was home to
79,000 residents age 60+
Today, there are 125,000.
By 2020
40% of the population in Sonoma County
will be age 50+
Becoming Age-Friendly
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) model, it’s a
continuous, four-step cycle:
Define
Guiding
Principles
Assess
Needs
Create an
Action Plan
Implement
and
Evaluate
February-August
2017
Design/ Implement
Assessment
Activities
September-
November 2017
Compile/Evaluate
Data
December 2017-
June 2018
Prep/Finalize
Action Plan
Age-Friendly Sonoma County
Planning Phase
Timeline We are
here
Joining the WHO Global Network of
Age Friendly Cities and Communities
Cities join the Network by committing to age-friendly principles and to share their experience, achievements and lessons learned with others. Here are the steps to join:
Complete the GNAFCC Application
Submit a letter from the Mayor to WHO indicating commitment to the Network cycle of continual improvement.
Begin the four step cycle.
Age -friendly/Livable Community Resources
Grantmakers in Aging
www.giaging.org
AARP (the WHO affiliate in the United States)
www.aarp.org/livable-communities
8 80 Cities
www.880cities.org
WHO Global Network of Age Friendly Cities and Communities
http://www.who.int/ageing/projects/age_friendly_cities_network/en/
Age-Friendly Sonoma County
www.agefriendlysonomacounty.org
Age-Friendly Sonoma County Coordinator
rtolliver@councilonaging.com