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Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
“Everyone wants to live a long life, but no-one wants to get old.”
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
“Everyone wants to live a long life
and a good life, but no one wants
to be made to feel old.”
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
1. Had the current Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara Strategy made a difference in people’s lives? Were we attending to those things that cause people to feel old?
2. How could age-friendliness be further progressed in the City? What should the new strategy focus on to make the biggest difference?
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
• keep opportunities for affordable social activities, which already exist, at an affordable level
• provide contact between generations and across cultures • the University of the Third Age and Chinese Senior Citizen groups
are growing rapidly• men’s sheds were regarded very positively
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
Older people told us …
• Council-based home care services (despite who they were actually delivered by) provide high-quality, affordable care assisting older people to remain independent in their own homes
• Council’s community bus is a vital service, but also not well known in the general community
• congratulations for the quality and maintenance of parks and green spaces.
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
Older people told us …
… remain living in their own homes, connected and involved with their communities and contributing in a meaningful manner.
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
Older people wanted to ...
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
Theme 1: Resilient, safe and inclusive community
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
Theme 2: Liveable, sustainable, health-promoting City
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
Theme 3: Equitable access for all
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
Theme 4: Best practice health and wellbeing, planning and leadership
“Everyone wants to live a long life and a good life, but no one wants to be made to feel old.”
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
“… it is very likely that baby boomers will come up with ideas for local projects that we don’t now have, that they will want to contribute their skills and knowledge to – we need some nimbleness…
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19
Massed baby boomers
“Solving the right problem is far more
important than solving the problem right: if
you’re not focusing on the right thing, a great
solution to a problem that nobody really
cares about creates little value. But even an
imperfect solution to a problem people really
care about can create a lot of value.”Stephen Hoover
Creating an Age-friendly Boroondara 2014-19