The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Eight Domains of Age-friendly Communities cover the key components of places that impact on how well people age, including both the built and social environment.
In an Age-friendly Community, the framework can be used as a lens to:
- Organise existing initiatives that are already making a community age-friendly.
- Develop new partnerships and projects related to the domains and older people.
- Review broader policies, plans and services that are already in place, now with your ageing population in mind.
Our Age-friendly Communities handbook outlines the principles of each of the Eight Domains and gives examples of practices and policies that can be implemented at a local level.
The handbook builds on WHO’s landmark guide on Global Age-friendly Cities, published in 2007.
