1. Age-friendly cities – key milestones
WHO research and guidance 2007
Global Network of Age-friendly Cities 2010
Age-Action Alliance 2011
Ageing Well resource 2012
UK Urban Ageing Consortium 2012
UK Age-friendly City Network 2012
WHO affiliation 2013

2. WHO Age-friendly City domains
Social participation
Respect and social inclusion
Civic participation and employment
Housing
Transportation
Outdoor spaces and public buildings
Community support and health services
Communication and information

3. Promoting awareness of older people and their needs.
The Dublin Declaration
Promoting awareness of older people and their needs.
Ensuring the views of older people are listened to and valued.
Adopting measures to develop places that are inclusive to all but particularly for older people.
Promoting and supporting the development of inclusive communities that include housing for older people.
Working to establish public transport systems that are available and affordable for older people.
Promoting the participation of older people in the social and cultural life of their community.
Promoting and supporting the development of employment and volunteering opportunities for older people.
Ensuring a comprehensive and integrated range of affordable, easily accessible, age-friendly and high quality community support and health services is available to older people.

5. Creating age-friendly cities and communities goes beyond active and positive living and health needs, public health outcomes and the persistence of health inequalities. Through the adoption of an age-friendly approach to planning and decision making in all areas of public life, we are actively creating an environment that facilitates citizens’ social engagement regardless of their age.
“It may have been well-meaning, but we now talk and think about maternal health, child health, old people’s health, this artificial compartmentalization marginalises older people. By making us think about how we all link to each other, regardless of our age, age-friendly cities show us a different, more connected, future.” (Beard …quoted by Parry 2010)
The opportunity for Wales to take a leadership role in Europe on developing Age-Friendly Communities