Resources to start an age friendly programme
Resources to use for more information when you’re planning to start developing an age friendly community.
Useful resources
- Bibliography of ageing research in New Zealand [PDF, 373KB] is an easy reference for people who want to be informed about some of the research on older people in New Zealand.
- Summary of Age friendly Cities and Communities, World experience and pointers for New Zealand [PDF, 188KB] provides an overview of age friendly approaches from a local perspective.
- Ministry for Ethnic Communities: Provides resources to support targeted engagement, including a community directory with links to organisations by language group, faith, or region. It also offers a telephone interpreting service – Language Line.
- Community Boards: If your council has a community board, it can be useful to make contact as they may be able to facilitate contacts, meetings, and liaison between the community and council.
- British Colombia Age-friendly Committee Terms of Reference [DOC, 478KB]: These Terms of Reference outline how to form a committee with an age friendly mandate. They have been drafted in a way that they can be edited to suit local conditions.
Useful examples
- Joint Wairarapa Councils Positive Ageing Strategy: The three district councils in the Wairarapa region collaborated to create a joint strategy and plan to improve and integrate council services for older people, to help them lead valued, connected and fulfilling lives.
- Hamilton, New Zealand – Age Friendly City [PDF, 6.4MB]: Page 9 of Hamilton City’s Age Friendly Plan demonstrates the guiding principles referenced during the development of their plan.
- New Plymouth’s Positive Ageing Trust: The Trust started as a group organising seminars and events but later formed two arms – one a Positive Ageing Trust overseeing governance and management of the organisation and the other a Positive Ageing Council which includes all members and representatives of kindred organisations. It is a good example of the range of organisations invested in age friendly communities.
- A Really Good Home for our Kaumātua - A Toolkit for Kaumātua [PDF, 8.3MB]: Page 12 provides a Vision, Mission, and Values example and pages 16-19 provide tools and tips for building collaborative relationships and partnerships.
- Age-friendly City Champions, Banyule City Council, Victoria, Australia: The Banyule City Council was one of the initial pilot cities for the WHO Age-friendly Cities project. The Council has had such a positive response to the project that they established an Age-friendly Champions programme, demonstrating the untapped public interest for age friendly development in their community.
- Waimakariri’s Age friendly plan [PDF, 11.9 MB]: Page 7 of the plan provides a timeline of activities undertaken to develop the plan.
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