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Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison

Part of the International Perspectives on Aging Book Series

Editors: Moulaert, Thibauld; Garon, Suzanne

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24031-2

ISBN: 978-3-319-24029-9

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 2, 2015

1 - 10 of 17 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: Toward a Better Understanding of AFCC

Moulaert, Thibauld; Garon, Suzanne

Pages: 1 –16

[This book presents one of the first international discussions of aging through the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Age-Friendly City and Community” (AFCC) model. Even if the WHO’s program is not the only one to support an “aging-friendly” perspective (Lui et al. in Aus J Ageing 28: 116–121,...
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A Critical Review of the WHO Age-Friendly Cities Methodology and Its Implementation

Plouffe, Louise; Kalache, Alexandre; Voelcker, Ina

Pages: 19 –36

[In 2007, the World Health Organization released the Age-Friendly Cities Guide with an accompanying checklist of essential features of age-friendly cities reflecting eight dimensions of the physical, social, and service environments. The checklist captured the characteristics that had been...
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The WHO Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: Origins, Developments and Challenges

Warth, Lisa

Pages: 37 –46

[This interview with Lisa Warth, Technical Officer at the Department of Ageing and Life Course at the World Health Organization lays out the origins, developments and challenges for the WHO Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities. The first section provides an overview on the...
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Population Ageing from a Global and Theoretical Perspective: European Lessons on Active Ageing

Walker, Alan

Pages: 47 –64

[This chapter provides an overview of both the social policy discourses which have been prompted by the unprecedented global ageing and the leading response made by policy makers called ‘active ageing’. The chapter begins with a global review of ageing which, of course, cannot comprehensively...
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Active Ageing and Age-Friendly Cities—A Personal Account

Kalache, Alexandre

Pages: 65 –77

[This chapter presents an interview with Alexandre Kalache, a key figure in the international development of Age-Friendly Cities. The first section describes his biographical background, detailing Doctor Kalache’s vocational journey into ageing and international public health. The second part of...
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It’s About the People…: Seniors’ Perspectives on Age-Friendly Communities

Lewis, John L.; Groh, Arlene

Pages: 81 –98

[The specter of an aging population and the attendant challenges that this will present for community planning has been a focus of popular and academic discourse for a number of decades. To support the City of Waterloo’s Advisory Committee on Age-Friendly Cities, the authors conducted in-depth...
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How Can a Research Program Enhance a Policy? AFC-Quebec Governance and Evaluation Opportunities

Garon, Suzanne; Veil, Anne; Paris, Mario; Rémillard-Boilard, Samuèle

Pages: 99 –120

[This chapter outlines the progress of the AFC-QC projects, as well as a few lessons learned both in developing and evaluating the program. In order to do this, we first describe the program’s approach since the beginning of AFC-QC with 7 pilot sites, between 2008 and 2013, in line with the work...
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Age-Friendly Hong Kong

Chan, Grace M. Y.; Lou, Vivian W. Q.; Ko, Lisanne S. F.

Pages: 121 –151

[In response to population aging in Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Council of Social Services (HKCSS) took up a leading role in promoting age-friendly Hong Kong since 2008. This chapter starts from an overview of HKCSS’s innovative strategies regarding promoting age-friendly Hong Kong. Then, a...
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The Implementation of Age-Friendly Cities in Three Districts of Argentina

Redondo, Nélida; Gascón, Silvia

Pages: 153 –170

[This chapter summarizes the main findings and the knowledge emerged from the research and implementation of the Age-Friendly Cities (AFC) Program in three cities of Argentine Republic. The results of these studies show that the size of the cities, their level of human, economic and social...
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Age-Friendly New York City: A Case Study

Goldman, Lindsay; Owusu, Shauneequa; Smith, Caitlyn; Martens, Dana; Lynch, Meghan

Pages: 171 –190

[Over 1 million New York City residents, or 12 % of the total population, are age 65 or older, a number projected to increase by 40.7 % over the next 20 years (U.S. Census Bureau 2013a; New York City Department of City Planning 2013). Age-friendly New York City (Age-friendly NYC), an initiative...

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