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Sustainable Age-friendly CommunitiesConor Skehan, School of Spatial Planning, DIT
KILKENNY AGE FRIENDLY COUNTY SEMINAR
Friday March 26th 2010
We are not planning for the already old...
We are planning for – the New Old- Ourselves!!!
Changing Value Systems
Modernisation Post-Modernisation
THEN NOW FUTURE
Centrist Regional Autonomous
Control Consult Co-operate
Uniform Cluster Specialist
Certainty Accommodation Innovation
Grow Sustain Enjoy
Baby boomers will be
Changing Needs
• Grey Panthers [powerful & politicized]
• Wealthy, healthy and demanding• Obsessed with self-expression and
fulfilment
• Wealthy• Healthy• Powerful• Fun-loving• Creative• Challenging
A Good DeathTo experience the end of life with as much composure, dignity and
resolution as possible with minimal and appropriate levels of
discomfort and anxiety
MeaningfulTo be able to participate in society
in ways that provide a sense of achievement and contribution
ComfortableTo be able to identify and pursue
challenges with minimal and proportionate physical discomfort
or compromise
ContentedTo be able to pursue interests and
activities with minimal and proportionate consideration of the
affordability or convenience
Desirable Outcomes of Ageing Well
StimulationOpportunity
Belonging
ExperienceEnjoyment
Security
MobilityLegibility
WHAT CAN PLANNING PROVIDE?
Planning for Age
The canary in the coalmine
Old Planning• Predict-plan-provide• Identification-segregation-
transportation
• Prescriptive• Conservative• Administrative
Emerging Planning• Joined-up-living• Accomodation-
concentration-transportation
• Spatial• Positive• Flexible
PLANNING = Preparing for the Future
Planning for Age - The Choices
Planning for the already aged• Coping• Problem Solving
Plan for the future old [us!]• Encouraging early, wise
movement• Meeting the Needs of the New
Aged• Experience• Enjoyment• Stimulation• Opportunity• Security• Mobility• Legibility• Belonging
Planning for Age - The Choices
Cope with today• Change Places – towns,
villages, streets• Change Homes• Changes Lives• Address Issues
– Transportation– Security– Welfare– Health
- COPING -
Plan for tomorrow• Change Minds• ‘Think Twice – Build Once’• Provide for future needs
- PLANNING -
Convenience Variety Security Legibility Amenity
Inner Urban -
Urban Villages
Inner Suburbs
Suburbs
Outer Suburbs
Villages
Countryside - -
Where’s the best place to age?
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Planning for AgeSpatial Planning for Change & Continuity
Plan for Change• Stimulation – seeking and solving Challenges• Opportunity – to meet change with Change• Safety – security, care, Certainty
Plan for Continuity [Ageing in Place]• Mobility – easier Movement• Legibility – not being Lost• Company – Belonging
Conclusion 1The Planning Challenges
Conclusion 2The Challenges
Move emphasis from exclusive quantitative to more qualitative
Moving on from having enough, or being good enough
To being good fun!
Move from Specialisation to IntegrationWhat’s good for age will be good for all