Age-Friendly Communities in

Western Australia -

A Collaborative Approach

Australia

• 2013 3 million people over 65 years.

• 2050 6 million over 60 years; 2 million over 80 years

(1/4 population).

• Over half our growth will

be through migration.

Western Australia – 2012

• 2.9 million people.

• 2.5 million km.

• 17% seniors (60 +).

• 2041 - 25%. Seniors

• Metropolitan 73%.

• Non-metropolitan 27%.

• 50% born overseas.

• Non-English speaking background 18%.

Working together with the

Western Australian State Government

Vision:

“That all West Australians age well in

communities where they matter,

belong and contribute”.

Western Australia

• History of involvement with World Health Organisation

(WHO).

• Partnership with City of Melville 2006/2007 WHO pilot

• Support to WHO re Age Friendly Cities indicator

development.

• Funding of rural community trial - 2007/2008.

Western Australia

• Promotion to local government.

• Promotion across government.

• Funding for 27 local government authorities to undertake research.

• Collective examination of findings.

• Release of Age-Friendly Strategy 2012.

• Facilitation of State Age Friendly Network.

Country/rural local

governments

Metropolitan

local

government

Domains

• Outdoor spaces and Buildings.

• Transport.

• Housing.

• Social Participation.

• Respect and Inclusion.

• Civic Participation and Employment.

• Communication and Information.

• Community Support and Health

Services.

Current status

• 27 local governments (communities) funded by State to

use age-friendly approach.

• 33% of the total seniors population in Western Australian

are living in communities that have adopted an age-

friendly approach to strategic planning.

• Of total number seniors in metropolitan Perth 42% live in

age-friendly communities but of total living in

rural/regional communities only 8% live in age-friendly

communities.

Collective Examination – Data Analysis

Rural communities:

• Need for further consultation;

• Footpath upgrades;

• Lack of community transport;

• Access issues highlighted;

• Lack of appropriate aged housing options; and

• Lack of forward planning by seniors for future options –

“wait and see”.

Collective Examination – Data Analysis

Urban Communities:

• Challenges of integration of actions to City planning;

• Desire for focus on intergenerational projects;

• Sustainability of actions;

• Shared concerns relating to housing, transport, and

health services; and

• Lack of forward planning by seniors for future options.

General findings

• Positive feedback regarding current senior initiatives

(free public transport, fuel cards for those living in the

remote/rural areas, dependable public transport).

• Sense of connection to current local neighbourhoods.

• Highest domain rating for “Respect and Inclusion”.

• Importance of volunteering to feeling valued.

• Importance of local libraries for places of information.

Melville’s Demographics

• 102,000 residents;

• 18 suburbs/neighbourhoods;

• 22% population over 60 years;

• Lone persons households – 27% by 2021

(predominantly older people);

• 32% population born overseas

(19 % non-English speaking); and

• Major cultural groups - Chinese, Italian,

South Asian, Indonesian.

Melville’s Journey…

• 2007 - 2009 Age-Friendly Melville – Directions from Seniors - Initial pilot City for World Health Organisation Age-Friendly Cities project.

• 2009 Membership to World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Network of Age Friendly Communities.

• 2010 - 2012 Age-Friendly Melville – Directions from Seniors.

• 2013 - 2017 Age-Friendly Melville – Directions from Seniors.

Engagement with older people

Main Issues Identified 2012

• Rising cost of living.

• Ability to maintain current property, including gardens.

• Accessible and affordable aged care facilities.

• Community Safety.

• Pedestrian difficulties.

• Appropriate seniors housing.

• Reduction in income.

Our Priorities for 2013 - 2017

• Respect, Inclusion and Social Participation.

• Transport.

• Communication and Information .

• Housing.

• Community Support and Health Services.

Into the City organisation – using existing

plans and strategies to deliver age-friendly

outcomes

• Community Safety and Crime Prevention Plan.

• Health and Wellbeing Plan.

• Volunteer Management Plan.

• Reconciliation Action Plan (Indigenous).

• Emergency Management Planning.

Into the organisation - Being smarter

• Identify what is happening already - Libraries, Waste.

• Use Council funding programs.

• Marketing and branding.

• Collection of data – ongoing evaluation.

• Focus groups – where required.

• Wellbeing Scorecard .

Some of our senior services

• Priority waste removal service for frail seniors

(driver taking rubbish bin to kerbside for pick-up).

• Library books delivered to homes.

• Healthy Lifestyles forums.

Some of our senior services continued…

• Community buses.

• Seniors Information Directory booklet.

• Seniors Assistance Fund (funds for emergency assistance).

• Senior Safety Guide Booklet.

• Intergenerational activities.

Mystery bus tours – Public transport

education for seniors

Information forums for seniors

Cultural activities for seniors

Specific cultural activities for seniors

Specific cultural activities for seniors

“Living Longer, Living Stronger”

programs for seniors

Story telling program

Free computer classes for seniors

Grants to support community events

Men’s cooking classes

Intergenerational project – school

students teaching “texting”

Home maintenance classes for

older women

Seniors mall walking group

How do we measure our success?

• Ongoing evaluation with

surveys at Seniors events,

forums and other community

events.

• Community Wellbeing Survey.

• Wellbeing Scorecard.

“Everyone benefits in communities

where older people thrive”.

-World Health Organisation World Health Day 2012

More information:

www.melvillecity.com.au

(Age-Friendly Melville)

www.dlgc.wa.gov.au

Christine.young@melville.wa.gov.au

An Evaluation of Age-Friendly

City Initiatives in Indonesia

Ni Wayan Suriastini (SurveyMETER)

Bondan Sikoki (SurveyMETER)

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Presented at 2nd APEC Conference on Age-friendly Cities

and Age-friendly Economy, Taiwan, 16-17 October 2014

Objectives

To document assessment of age friendly cities

from the perspective of ageing and pre ageing

population, local government staff, village office

staff and interviewer observation

To provide recommendations to policy makers on

steps towards achieving age friendly cities

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Components of the Study

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Survey and Observation

• Individual, female & male age 40 + , 2.100 persons

• Village staff, 140 villages

• Local government staff, 14 cities

• Interview observation, 48 peoples

In depth interview

• Local Government Planning Board (BAPPEDA)

• Other stakeholders

FGD

• Male and female ageing and pre ageing population

Study Location: 14 Cities

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Study Area per City

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Western area (2 enumeration areas, 30

respondents)

Northern area (2 enumeration areas, 30

respondents)

Southern area (2 enumeration areas, 30

respondents)

Eastern area (2 enumeration areas, 30

respondents)

Central area (2 enumeration areas, 30

respondents)

Sampling: Age, Gender, Education, and

Activity of Respondent

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70+

years

16,7%

60-69 years 30,0%

50-59 years 30,0%

40-49 years 23,3%

Respondents are person

age 40+ with minimal

education senior high

school and currently/ever

working or currently/ever

active in community

program.

Male : 50%

Female : 50%

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No Dimension Number

Total Indirectly Directly

1. Outdoor space & building 15 5 10

2. Transportation 22 14 8

3. Housing 8 3 5

4. Social participation 10 2 8

5. Respect & social inclusion 9 1 8

6. Civil participation & employment 8 0 8

7. Communication & information 11 3 8

8. Community support & health

services 12 2 10

Total 95 30 65

Creating a Composite Index

Number of Indicators per

Dimension

Creating Performance Level Measurement Toward 2030

Percentage Performance level

< 25% Red

25 % - 49 % Orange

50 % - 74% Yellow

75 % - 100% Green

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Goal 2030: performance level green for all indicators,

dimension index and total index

Dimension Index 14 Cities

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0

20

40

60

1.Outdoor space &building

2.Transportation

3.Housing

4.Socialparticipation

5.Respect & socialinclusion

6.Civil participation& employment

7.Communication& information

8.Communitysupport &  health

services

• The leading

dimensions are

social participation,

community support

& health service;

communication &

information.

• Low performance

dimensions in

Indonesia are civil

participation &

employment;

housing, building

and open space

Baseline Performance Level

Index Performance

Level

Total 42.9 Orange

1.Outdoor space &

building 35.2 Orange

2.Transportation 40.1 Orange

3.Housing 31.3 Orange

4.Social participation 55.6 Yellow

5.Respect & social

inclusion 48.7 Orange

6.Civil participation &

employment 16.9 Red

7. Communication &

information 52.2 Yellow

8. Community support

& health services 53.8 Yellow

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• The readiness Indonesia’s

cities to be age friendly

cities is 42.9%

• The Skewness and

kurtosis test indicates:

Age Friendly Cities

Indexes are normally

distributed

Can be used to

assess the

differences in

achiement between

cities

Total Index By City: Small cities are more

progressive than big cities

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0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Jakarta Surabaya Bandung Medan Semarang

Makasar Mataram Yogjakarta Denpasar Balikpapan

Payakumbuh Depok Surakarta Malang

5 Biggest Cities Small Cities Oil Industry CityMedium Cities

Dimension Index: The 5 Biggest Cities

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0

20

40

60

80

1.Outdoor space & building

2.Transportation

3.Housing

4.Social participation

5.Respect & social inclusion

6.Civil participation & employment

7.Communication & information

8.Community support & health services

Jakarta

Surabaya

Bandung

Medan

Semarang

Surabaya & Bandung are leading.

Surabaya for 8,1,2 dimension. Bandung

for 4,5,7 dimension

Dimension Index: Medium Cities

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0

20

40

60

80

1.Outdoor space & building

2.Transportation

3.Housing

4.Social participation

5.Respect & social inclusion

6.Civil participation & employment

7.Communication & information

8.Community support & health …

Makasar

Mataram

Yogjakarta

Denpasar

Makassar has the lowest index

and Yogyakarta is leading

Dimension Index: Small Cities

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0

50

100

1.Outdoor space & building

2.Transportation

3.Housing

4.Social participation

5.Respect & social inclusion

6.Civil participation & employment

7.Communication & information

8.Community support & health services

Payakumbuh

Balikpapan

Depok

Surakarta

Malang

Surakarta & Payakumbuh are leading

for 4,5,7 and 8 dimension

Proposed Step Toward

Age Friendly Cities in 2030

Planning (Year 1-2)

Implementation (Year 3-5)

Evaluation (End Year 5)

Program Continuation (Year 6-17)

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Proposed Performance Level at Each Step:Measurement

Toward Age Friendly Cities 2030

2018 2023 2028 2030

Total Orange Yellow Yellow Green

1. Outdoor space & building Orange Yellow Yellow Green

2. Transportation Orange Yellow Yellow Green

3. Housing Orange Yellow Yellow Green

4. Social participation Yellow Yellow Yellow Green

5. Respect & social inclusion Yellow Yellow Yellow Green

6. Civil participation & employment Orange Orange Yellow Green

7. Communication & information Yellow Yellow Yellow Green

8. Community support & health services Yellow Yellow Yellow Green

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Discussed With Stakeholders

Strategies Toward

Age Friendly Cities 2030

Examine the Descriptive Statistic

of Each Indicator

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Indicators Distribution By Performance Level No Dimension Red Orange Yellow Green N

1. Outdoor space & building 26.67 73.33 0.00 0.00 15

2. Transportation 27.27 40.91 27.27 4.55 22

3. Housing 50.00 50.00 0.00 0.00 8

4. Social participation 0.00 30.00 70.00 0.00 10

5. Respect & social inclusion 11.11 33.33 55.56 0.00 9

6. Civil participation &

employment 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8

7. Communication & information 9.09 27.27 54.55 9.09 11

8. Community support & health

services 0.00 33.33 58.33 8.33 12

Total 25.26 38.95 32.63 3.16 95

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Proposed Strategy

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Stakeholders Indicator %

Community in general

Traffic regulation imposed and driver to give priority to pedestrians

30,9

Private Existence of special service for ageing population

12,6

1:Start with the easiest indicators, require low fund, has low

index score and involved all stakeholders

2:Advocation toward age friendly

cities 2030 need to be promoted at

national level as well as local level

The results of this research has been diseminated to

the city, provincial, national governments,

International community since May 2013

With Payakumbuh City

Stakeholders, May 6, 2013

With Denpasar Mayor & Other

Stakeholders, June 12, 2013

With Depok City Stakeholders,

June 25, 2013

With Yogyakarta City

Stakeholders, June 13, 2013

With Balikpapan City Mayor & Other

Stakeholders, July 2, 2013

with Bali Governor & Other

Stakeholders, July 5, 2013

The Response of the Stakeholders

• The response of the government have been very encouraging

• They are very welcome to the initiative, agreed to the recommendation

suggested and will follow up with real actions using the results of this

study

• They will use the result of this study as a reference for city planning

formulation; to start with indicators which has low score and do not

require a lot of fund

• They are also planning to integrate with other programs that are

complementary programs such as child-friendly city, welfare city, and

inclusive city

• A number heads of city government , such as as Payakumbuh and

Denpasar eager to achieve it even before 2030

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Response: Balikpapan City

Placed Bidding in July

2014 to Creating

Action Plan Document

on Balikpapan City

toward Age Friendly

City

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Response: Denpasar City

Inisiate Intergrated

Child Friendly City,

Aged Friendly City and

Green Open Space in

Healty City planning,

11-13 September

2014.

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Response: Jakarta City

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Age

Friendly

City

Campaign

, March

2014

Proposed Strategy 3

Creating Local Action Plan

Toward Age Friendly Cities

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Example: Denpasar City

Comittment Task Force Local Planning

Community

Private Sector

Toward Child Friendly City 2010-2015

Age Frindly city 2015-2025

City Mayor

Local parlement

Local Goverment

Community leader

Private sector

Sub-distrct head

Village head

Community

Parents

Children

Representative

Ealderly

Representative

2020 Age Friendly

City 2030

Stakeholders

Proposed Strategy 4

Institutional Strengthening

•The existence of legislation and policies to support

the Aged Friendly City

•The existence of regulations on Age Friendly City

•Other laws and regulations and / or policies on

Aged-Friendly city

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Summary Indonesia’s cities is still far for being ready as age friendly cities. But this

study has created awareness among policy makers about the important of

considering aged friendly environment in a city planning

Small cities are more progressive than big cities

Low performance dimensions in Indonesia are civil participation &

employment, housing, building and open space

The leading dimensions are social participation, community support &

health service; communication & information

The results of the study provide assessment, data and recommendation

that can be used for city planning towards 2030

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Recommendation

Strategy toward age friendly cities 2030, could

start with fixing low performance indicators, that

does not require a lot of funding and involving all

stakeholders

The strategy need to be promoted at the national

and local level

Creating local action plan toward age frieldly cities

Institutional Strengthening

Above all commitment from local government and

other stakeholders are needed to enable reach the

dream of age friendly cities in Indonesia by 2030

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THANK YOU

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Active & Healthy Ageing

Are we being ambitious enough? Deliverables under the EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing

Health in Europe 2020

Europe 2020 flagships for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

Innovation Union

New Skills and New Jobs

Digital Agenda

Youth on the Move

New Industrial

Policy

Platform against Poverty

Resource Efficiency

• innovation for tackling societal challenges, e.g. ageing and health

• innovation for addressing the weaknesses & removing obstacles in the European

innovation system

Innovation Union

• ICTs for tackling societal issues - ageing, health care delivery

• sustainable healthcare & ICT-based support for dignified & independent living

Digital Agenda for

Europe

European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing

APPROACH: • Ownership of key stakeholders

• High-level political commitment

• Very large-scale deployment & innovation

• Awareness and best-practice sharing across Europe

• Combining demand and supply sides of innovation

• Building on existing instruments and new ones

••• 3

Sustainable &

efficient

healthcare systems

Growth & expansion of

EU industry

Health & quality of

life of European

citizens

+2 Healthy Life Years by 2020 Triple win for Europe

Priorities

To make an impact on new paradigm at EU level we need to…

Operate in real world

Learn from experience

Share & scale-up best solutions

Allocate funding

Influence policy at EU level

Support research

Collection of Good Practices Scaling-up innovative solutions

500 Commitments

32 Reference Sites

Alignment of EC funding

Advocacy & visibility

Improving prescriptions and adherence to treatment

Better management of health: preventing falls

Preventing functional decline and frailty

Integrated care for chronic conditions, inc. telecare

ICT solutions for independent living & active ageing

Age-friendly cities and environments

EIP on Active & Healthy Ageing

specific actions

Deliverables Mapping of best practices Better professinal coooperation Practical toolkits

Implementation on large scale

Innovation for Age-friendly buildings, cities & environments Action Group

• implement innovative solutions to develop environments that are more age-friendly and promote active and healthy living

• multi-disciplinary group is working at a regional and local level, as well as in an EU context, to analyse integrated approaches to urban design, housing, services and businesses and explore new ways to promote active and healthy ageing

Action Group Innovation for age-friendly buildings, cities and environments –2012-2015

• Adapting Environments to the challenge of ageing populations

• Understanding how ICT and Service innovations can help shape supportive environments ;

• Running pilots to analyse integrated approaches to urban design, housing, health and social services, age-friendly workplaces, ICT and smart environments;

• Setting up mechanisms to engage the older person and ensure their participation in society;

• Exploring new ways to promote active and healthy ageing with age friendly environments.

Good Practices Age friendly-environments 2013

62 good practices- 32 regions, 12 Member States

Cluster Living environments - 31 good practices: Ambient Assisted Living, Housing and Urban Environment.

Cluster Active Ageing in the community - 16 good practices: Age-friendly businesses, Voice of Older People, Transportation

Cluster Active & Healthy Lifestyles - 10 good practices, physical activity and tourism

Cluster Dementia Supportive Environments -5 good practices community support and solutions

Link: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/eipaha/library/index/show/filter/actiongroups/id/729

• Urban Environments-integrated assited living areas integrating a number of sectors including transport, housing, health & care in the Netherlands

• Ambient Assited Living Solution operation evaluation and replciation of anew ICT enabled assisted living scheme in Spin

• Housing- adpating social housing in France using innovative financing

• Age-friendly businesses and services- recognition scheme of SMES to provide more age-friendly services in Ireland

• Voice of Older Person- engaging older people in older people's fora in the UK

• Transport-development of personalised transport scheme in Portugal

• Tourism- tourism packages targeted at older people in Spain & Portugal

• Physical Activity- walking groups in communities in Italy

• Dementia supportive environments-programme to support people stay active in the community for longer in Ireland

Actions: close up

Mutual learning

• We may not be very strong in everything

but we are in some

• Where we have a gap

others are experts

• Collectively

we know a lot & we have a rich range of good practices

Learn by others' success…and mistakes Avoid duplications time and resources-consuming Shorten the learning curve to adapt a good practice

Challenges Identified

• Lack of funding

• Lack of coordination among different levels of government

• Lack of political commitment in this field.

• Lack of knowledge and expertise of age-friendly environment concept

• Lack of older people involvement in the development of age friendly programmes

Lessons learned

• Local & Regional Authorities-sharing experience on stakeholder alliances and in partnership with older people 50+ forums-finding partnerships and funding opportunities for initiatives

• Becoming an age-friendly environment is high on the agenda of a majority of towns, Priority = adapting public space (cities& towns), social inclusion (regions)

• Highlighting good-practices -promote an online repository for good practices and evidence-based guidelines

Outlook

• Draft guidance tools on urban design, housing, transport, tourism, ICT solutions

• Adapting and developing principles and a guide on age-friendly environments in an EU context

• Age-friendly Environments Innovation Network (AFE–Innovnet) Project (Launched February 2014): Thematic network (TN) support LRAs & other stakeholders –Mobilisation of stakeholders

• WHO/EC Age-friendly Environments in Europe Project (Launched end of 2013): Adapting WHO age friendly environment guidelines to an EU context

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EC/WHO Age-friendly environments in Europe (AFEE)

A joint project between WHO/Europe and the European Commission, DG

Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion

Goal: creating tools and guidance for local and regional authorities to make

strong commitments to become more age-friendly and to measure their

progress towards this objective

• Avoid fragmentation between the age-friendly environments initiatives

• Adapt the WHO age-friendly environment guidelines to an EU context (In

line with the D4 Action Areas & cities active in the EIP)

• Developing a monitoring system (EIP monitoring)

• Learn from the case studies (notable practices)

Link: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Life-stages/healthy-

ageing/activities/age-friendly-environments-in-europe-afee

AFE-INNOVNET Thematic Network

• Set up a large EU wide community of local and regional authorities and other relevant stakeholders across the EU who want to work together to find smart and innovative evidence based solutions to support active and healthy ageing and develop age-friendly environments across the EU.

Link: http://www.afeinnovnet.eu

This project is funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP), grant agreement n° 620978

Objectives

More than 140 members in the network

Applied to be the Affiliated Programmes to the WHO

GNAFC

Supporting a participatory aoppraoch

Developing a repository of notable and replicable practices

Facilitating pilot projects clustering

Webinars: Still available via You Tube -

http://www.afeinnovnet.eu/library

Further Details

Short video EIP on AHA