Beginning an Age Friendly Community Plan

1. Project outline Beginning anAge Friendly Community Plan

2. Today’sActivities 1 3 2 Golden’s AFCP Project Plan Age Friendly Community Plan Rationale & Resources Discussion & Next Steps Ask questions as they form.

3. 1 Age Friendly Community PlanWhat does it mean? Where does it fit? And what help do we have?

4. Age Friendly Community Planning:Finding the Right Fit A society for all ages is multigenerational. It is not fragmented, with youths, adults and older persons going their separate ways. Rather, it is age-inclusive, with different generations recognizing — and acting upon — their commonalityof interest.’ - Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations

5. Coalition Commitment: Nov 20 1. “I believe that there is a need to collectively address seniors issues in this community. 2. I will commit to work with this coalition initiative until June 2014, at such time it will be reevaluated. The coalition may focus on the securing a coordinator and the age-friendly community initiatives. 3. I will network, partner, participate in short monthly meetings and any seniors-focused planning. 4. If need be, I will reduce my time, proportionally, with _____________ (other commitment) during this term.” If necessary, please take this back to your group for approval. If in agreement, schedule the next meeting… for Dec 3.

6. 4 Steps: Age Friendly Community Plan Process Step 1: Defining Local Principles Step 2: Custom Needs Assessment Step 3: Developing an Action Plan Step 4: Implementation and Evaluation Concept is over 50 years old; started from the field of gerontology.

7. Definitions: Age Friendly Community Plan Dimensions from WHO’s Global Age-Friendly Cities: A Guide (2007) 1. Outdoor spaces and Public Buildings 2. Transportation 3. Housing 4. Social Participation 5. Respect and social inclusion 6. Civic Participation and employment 7. Communication and information 8. Community support and health services

8. Step 1: Defining Local Principles • Form a Steering Committee/Task Force • Do we have everyone? • Create Guiding Principles • AFC Vision • Build Partnerships • Engage • Gather Information • Discussion groups • Survey; needs assessment • Community profile data • Discuss Priorities • AFC Goals • Priorities

9. Project Plan: Age Friendly Community Plan

10. Who do we Engage in our communities? What influence does each sector bring to the issue we are hoping to influence? • AFCP Task Force • Age Friendly Community Plan

11. AFCP Resources: Near and afar Golden’s AFCP Task Force • Dr. John Lewis, U of Waterloo, School of Planning • Wrote the book on AFCP in Ontario • Dr. Terri MacDonald, Rural Development Institute • Local & regional demographics; analysis help • Town of Golden • Finance • Fire Rescue • Operations & Public Works • Recreation Services • Mayor & Council • Other Local Programs & Services

12. Last Meeting Date: Thursday March 6th Homework: • ReviewFinding the Right Fit: Age-Friendly Community Planning • Survey Questions: review many, shortlist few • List of targeted survey respondents

13. 2 Golden’s AFCP Project PlanHow does this help our community? How does this help our citizens?

14. Surveys: Types of Questions • Create a Draft List of Questions: • Refer to the University of waterloo website (www.uwaterloo.ca/env/finding-the-right-fit)where you will find the 17 AFC assessment tools and their associated questions in a downloadable database. Choose the questions that are relevant to your community. • Create Person-Environment (P-E) Pairs: • To make sure that your needs assessment questions will capture information about your community’s person-environment fit (p-e fit), balance questions about your community’s environment with questions about how people feel about their environment. • Before taking your needs assessment into the • community to collect information, pretest the assessment to identify its strengths and weaknesses.

15. 3 Discussion & Next Steps How do we best support our seniors?

16. Needs Assessment: Review Other Surveys • UoW’s AFCP Instrument Database • Revelstoke • Nelson* • Clarington, ON • All can be found here: • www.goldenloom.ca/age-friendly.html • Golden • Mickey • Jim • Ryan

17. Task 1: Examine Your Tool Set What AFC dimensions did your community identify as priorities for meeting the goals of your initiative? What dimensions are lower priorities? Are there dimensions that do not apply to your community? Are there unique circumstances related to specific dimensions? What issues in your community relate to the dimensions you feel are most important?

18. Definitions: Age Friendly Community Plan Dimensions from WHO’s Global Age-Friendly Cities: A Guide (2007) 1. Outdoor spaces and Public Buildings 2. Transportation 3. Housing 4. Social Participation 5. Respect and social inclusion 6. Civic Participation and employment 7. Communication and information 8. Community support and health services

19. Meeting 1, Nov 7:Discussion Themes (Innoweave, The Collective Impact Opportunity, 2013)

20. Building a Common Agenda: Seniors

21. Task 2: Create a Draft List of Questions Number of Survey Questions: 20 min. max! 20 questions; + focus groups, demographics data 1. Outdoor spaces and Public Buildings: 2; RQ, RW, JH 2. Transportation: 3; JD, JH 3. Housing: 3; SD, JD 4. Social Participation: 3; MD, CB, RQ 5. Respect and social inclusion: 1; RK, J&SH 6. Civic Participation and employment: 1; RK, J&SH 7. Communication and information: 2; CB, MD, RQ 8. Community support and health services: 4; MB, JS

22. Task 3: Create Person-environment Question Pairs Find the gaps between resources & needs: What do older adults need to do, what do they prefer to do and what are they able to do? What resources does the community environment offer and how does it offer them? Two Approaches to developing your p-e pairs: Find an instrument that fitsyour situation Use the questions database to search for an appropriate match …p.42

23. Task 3: Create Person-environment Question Pairs E.g. 1 Start with a person-centredquestion from the LEIPAD instrument: 1. How much do your feelings of anxiety (if any) stand in the way of doing the things you want to do? Create an environment-centred question to complete the pair: 2. Is there a program in your community designed to help older adults cope with feelings of anxiety that might be unique to an older adult? E.g. 2 Start with an environment-centredquestion from the AARP instrument: 1. Does the community have a regulation about snow removal from the sidewalks? Create a person-centred question to complete the pair: 2. Do you have any difficulties getting around in the winter because sidewalks have not been cleared of snow?

24. Task 4: Finalize the Needs Assessment • Person-Environment Fit (p-e fit) • Aperson’s ability to age well and independently comes from the relationship between his or her physical and mental capacity and the ‘press’ (or barriers) of his or her environment. • Balance: • Questions covering each of the eight dimensions; • Questions about mental and physical health; • Questions about the social and physical environment. • Low-Priority Dimensions: • 4 to 9% of the total questions in one instrument. • Medium-Priority Dimensions: • 10 to 17% of the total questions in one instrument. • High-Priority Dimensions: • 18 to 35% of the total questions in one instrument.

25. Listing Our Prospects: Dec 3

26. Shared Measurement: Local Demographics

27. Next Meeting Date: Thursday March 27th Time: 11:00am – 12:15pm Location: The Island Homework: • ReviewFinding the Right Fit: Age-Friendly Community Planning • Finalize Survey Questions • List of targeted survey respondents

28. Today’sActivities 1 3 2 Golden’s AFCP Project Plan Age Friendly Community Plan Rationale & Resources Discussion & Next Steps Ask questions as they form.

29. an overview of possibilities Engaging inCommunity Coordination