About this webinar

Age friendly cities and communities are essential for ensuring that older people can continue leading fulfilling, active lives. An age friendly environment recognises that older individuals have the same desire to remain physically, intellectually and socially engaged as younger people do.

Such communities require careful planning and design that enable older people to participate in their communities and to be supported by their environments.

Importantly this design must come from older people themselves so their needs are met, in partnership with local government, industry services and other sectors.

In this webinar we will hear from a local initiative to co-design an age friendly community, a reginal view of how age friendly environments can form in different community settings and a global view of how a network can support the age friendly movement. Further since environments are not just about ramps and benches but also about people and their attitudes and interactions, we will cast a critical eye over how ageism can prevent older people contributing to and getting the most from their communities.