Hundreds of cities and communities in the world have joined the WHO’s Global Network for Age Friendly Cities and Communities since 2010. In order to do quantitative assessments of the age friendliness of cities, the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ) was developed for the Dutch …

Efforts to create age-friendly cities progressively intersect with goals for environmental sustainability. The older people’s beliefs, behaviours and financial aspects regarding environmental sustainability in their lives are an understudied topic and not well understood. Therefore, a representative …

In deze handreiking vindt u handvatten om een project op te zetten waarin senioren zelf filmpjes maken over verbeterpunten in hun eigen leefomgeving. De filmpjes worden gedeeld met relevante stakeholders om concrete verbeteringen teweeg te brengen en bij te dragen aan het creëren van een leeftijdsvriendelijke …

The crossroads of living in cities on the one hand and ageing of the population on the other is studied in an interdisciplinary field of research called urban ageing (van Hoof and Kazak 2018, van Hoof et al. 2018). People live longer and in better health than ever before in Europe. Despite all the positive …