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S T U D Y T O U R

21-23 FEBRUARY 2018

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The Academy on Age-Friendly Environments in Europe B.V., herein after referred to as

AFEdemy, is pleased to announce its first Study tour to Age Friendly Ireland, in particular

Meath, Cavan and Louth County. Our mission is to support and increase the capacity of

regional, local and community stakeholders to design, implement and monitor age-

friendly environments (AfE) policies, practices, places and programmes. AFEdemy will

draw together, organise and deliver a programme of courses, study tours, exchange

programmes and workshops tailored to the needs of their participants. The programme of

the Irish study tour has been developed in close cooperation with Age Friendly Ireland, and

they support the study tour in many ways.

Background: In 2007 WHO launched the concept of age-friendly cities, and since then

many cities and communities have joined the Global Network on Age Friendly Cities and

Communities (GNAFCC). As a member of the global network, cities and communities

pledge to improve the age-friendliness of their locality, committing to put in place policy

and implementation measures to secure development towards age-friendly environments.

In Europe the concept of age-friendly environments is very well received. European

mayors signed the Dublin Declaration on Age-friendly Cities and Communities in Europe in

2013. One of the action groups of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and

Healthy Ageing (2012-2018), is dedicated to fostering age-friendly environments. The

‘Covenant on Demographic Change, Towards an Age-friendly Europe’ was launched in

December 2015. The Covenant strongly connects with the Dublin Declaration and the

supports of GNAFCC. In this context the study tour to Age Friendly Ireland takes place.

In order to get the most profit out of the study tour, we highly recommend the participants

to be as open as possible and share their visions, their current situation (challenges and

needs), knowledge, expectations, etc. with the other participants and the guides of the

study tour. In preparation of the study tour we will compose an introduction leaflet with the

background, expectations and contact details of the participants. Let’s share and benefit

from each other!

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National Age Friendly Programme

The ageing of our population will represent one of the most significant

demographic and societal developments that Ireland has encountered.

The number over the age of 65 is expected to increase substantially,

reaching 1.4 million by 2040 or about 23% of the total population. Across

this same period the number over the age of 80 is set to quadruple. The implications for

public policy areas as diverse housing, health, urban and rural planning, transport, policing,

the workplace and the business environment are considerable.

Minister of State for Mental Health and

Older People, Jim Daly TD at the recent

launch of Carlow Age Friendly Strategy

with CE Kathleen Holohan & Catherine

McGuigan

A now nation-wide network of Age Friendly City and County multi-agency, multi-sectorial

Programmes is now in place. The national Age Friendly Ireland programme, hosted by

Meath County Council, coordinates this nation-wide network and in doing so brings

together, supports and provides technical guidance to the 31 local authority-led,

multiagency Age Friendly City and County Programmes. Under the leadership of the local

authority, local governance is anchored in the multi-agency Age-Friendly Alliances,

supported by broadly representative Older Peoples’ Councils actively engaged as co-

design partners. The Age Friendly City and County Alliances provide the collaborative

framework to involve senior leaders from key stakeholders such as the local authority,

HSE, An Garda Síochána, Chambers of Commerce, third-level institutions, and others, who

have sufficient influence and resources to develop and deliver ambitious and collaborative

Age Friendly City and County Programmes. The National Age Friendly Ireland Programme

entered a transition period at the end of December 2016 with the objective of creating a

national centralised service, embedded in local government, to support the on-going

development, implementation and sustaining of the programmes strategy. The focus for

the new centralised support service will be to lead the national programme, continue to

connect the existing 31 local programmes and to support scaling and mainstreaming of

age friendly practices with a focus on demonstrating how best practice can influence

national policy.

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Under the leadership of Jackie Maguire, Chief Executive, Meath County

Council, the National Age Friendly Ireland programme is being hosted

by Meath County Council to continue the on-going development and

effective & efficient management of the programme.

Over the last eight years significant progress has been made across

Ireland in adopting the global World Health Organisations Age Friendly

Programme framework. To date 31 City & County programmes across

26 counties have established and are committed to embedding age

friendliness through improved sustainable built environments, lifetime housing, improved

public spaces, accessible public & private services, timely and accessible transport,

sustained rural development and improved economic development. Internationally Ireland

is considered as a front runner country in terms of the achievements it has made. Without

the leadership of local government and the collaboration of key agencies at both local and

national level, this would not have been possible.

Governance is anchored in a National Advisory Group made up of senior stakeholders who

will provide the oversight for the National Age Friendly Programme and include Local

Authority Chief Executives, Department Assistant Secretaries, HSE National Director, An

Garda Siochana Assistant Commissioner and Chambers Ireland. The strategic objectives of

the programme going forward will be to:

• Provide the national catalyst for the provision of technical guidance to support each

Age Friendly City and County Programme in moving through strategy development to

advanced implementation

• Inform and influence policy and service development at both national and local level

• Optimise programme quality and impact by supporting wide-scale application of

innovative, effective and sustainable age-friendly practices

• Support the national structures including the National Network of Older Peoples

Councils to ensure that the collective voice of older people representing the diversity

of older people in Ireland is reflected.

The National Network of Older Peoples Council is a representative body

of Chairpersons from Older Peoples Councils across Ireland and

convenes nationally to surface national issues, share learning & best

practice, network, forge relationships and support the communication

of the programmes work. The National network is chaired by Bob

Gilbert, Chairperson, Cavan Older Peoples Council.

Jackie  Maguire,    Chief  Executive,    Meath  County  Council  

Bob  Gilbert,  Chairperson,  National  Network  of  Older  

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Over the past 8 years we have consulted with over 20,000 older people which has led to

the implementation of a huge volume of good practice at local level. Through our

partnership approach with the Department of Health & HSE the Healthy & Positive Ageing

Initiative (HaPAI) has conducted a baseline with 11,500 older people across Ireland and

produced a set of Positive Ageing indicators. The opportunity is to use this data from the

baseline to support the scaling up local models of good practice into the consistent

application of proven age friendly initiatives across the wider network of Age Friendly

Counties. The contribution of older people in this collaborative approach has facilitated this

unprecedented success. The programme looks forward to continuing this growth in

partnership with older people to ensure Ireland is truly age friendly for our current

population & future generations.

Catherine McGuigan

National Age Friendly Ireland Programme Lead

 

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Programme Study tour Age-Friendly Ireland FEB’18*

DAY 1 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2018 14:00

16:00

18:00

• Departure hours from terminal 1 and terminal 2 at Dublin Airport

• Transport to Bellinter House, Navan

• Check-in Hotel

Flexibus, Dublin

Airport

15:00-19:00 Check-in Bellinter House, Navan Bellinter House

19:00-20:00 • Welcome by AFEdemy ltd., Javier Ganzarain and Willeke van

Staalduinen

• Tour de table

• Introduction Study tour by Javier Ganzarain

• WHY Age-friendly environments by Willeke van Staalduinen

Bellinter House

20:00-21:30 Dinner Bellinter House

DAY 2 THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2018

07:00-08:30 Breakfast Bellinter House

08:30-09:00 Transfer to Summerhill, Meath Co. Flexibus

09:00-11:00 • Third Age – A national voluntary organisation celebrating the

third age in life when people may no longer be in paid

employment, but can remain healthy, fulfilled and continue to

contribute to society.

• Overview of Ireland’s Age Friendly Programme by

Catherine McGuigan, National Age Friendly Programme

Manager, WHAT and HOW to realise age-friendly environments.

Including introductory video about Men’s Sheds in Ireland

(http://menssheds.ie/).

• Presentation by Liam Carey, Overview of Third Age and its

various programmes, e.g. Senior Line (national confidential

listening service by trained older volunteers for older people),

Fáilte Isteach (older volunteers welcoming migrants through

conversational English classes), Sage (Support and Advocacy

Service)

• Tour of Third Age

Summerhill

11:00-13:00 • Transfer to County Cavan with a short stop off at Avoca Store,

Café, Food Market and Garden Centre (Dunboyne, Co. Meath)

• Lunch package in the bus

Flexibus

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13:00-16:30 • Visit to Conn Smith Memorial Park to include Bóithrin na

Smaointe (Memory Walk) and Lavey Lake

Conn Smith Memorial Park is a multi-generational shared play

space, ‘A great place for all the family to get involved’.

The ‘memory walk’, Boithrin na Smaointe, was installed by the

Cavan Alzheimer’s Association. We will also visit Lavey Lake

where the area has been upgraded with flowers and benches,

wheelchair accessible areas and a walkway along the shore front

of the lake. Lavey community have also been successful in their

campaign, which has been spearheaded by the older people to

introduce the new bus shelters that are in place.

• Visit Cavan Age Friendly Businesses and Cavan Older

Persons Council

We will visit a number of businesses to see the changes they

have made and chat to both customers and businesses owners to

see how the training has improved the footfall of older people to

their shops / services and how these customers feel that it has

made a difference to their shopping experience.

Overview of Cavan Age Friendly Programme by Sinead Tormey.

Cavan Co.

16:30-17:45 Transfer to Bellinter House Flexibus

20:00-21:30 Dinner Bellinter House

DAY 3 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2018

07:00-08:30 Breakfast and check out Bellinter House

08:30-09:00 Transfer to Flexibus Office at Navan Flexibus

09:00-10:00 Visit to Flexibus (Meath Accessible Transport), Providing

innovative transport service models that meet the needs of all

people in Counties: Meath, Louth and Fingal

Presentation by Miriam McKennan

Flexibus Office

10:15-10:45 Transfer to Newgrange at Drogheda Flexibus

10:45-12:00 Visit Newgrange is a Stone Age monument in the Boyne

Valley, County Meath, Ireland.

It is the best know Irish passage tomb and dates to c. 3200 BC during

the Neolithic period, which makes it older than Stonehenge and the

Egyptian pyramids. Newgrange is a large circular mound with a stone

passageway and chambers inside. The mound is ringed by

'kerbstones' engraved with artwork.

http://www.worldheritageireland.ie/bru-na-boinne/built-

heritage/newgrange/

Newgrange

12:00-12:40 Transfer to Dundalk Local Authority Flexibus

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12:45-13:45 Working lunch with presentations on Social, Economic,

Environmental Impact Tool

Age-friendly Housing

Dundalk, Louth

Co

14:00-15:00 Site visit Great Northern Haven,

A purpose-built development of sixteen ‘smart’ apartments built to

enable independent living and enhance the quality of life of older

residents.

https://www.dkit.ie/news/great-northern-haven-best-practice-

model-independent-living-older-people

https://www.netwellcasala.org/great-northern-haven/

Dundalk, Louth

Co

15:00 - 17:00 Action plan, WHY, WHAT and HOW age-friendly environments and

wrap-up, led by AFEdemy ltd.

Lessons learned and making your action plan.

Available guides and standards.

Dundalk, Louth

Co

17:00-17:30 Bus transport to Airport Dublin Flexibus

* Times are indicatory. The organization reserves the r ight, under exceptional

circumstances, to modify the program and the condit ions.

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REGISTRATION FORM

Study tour to Age Friendly Ireland 21-23 February 2018 Participation fee: 650,00€ per person, VAT excluded.

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BOOKING TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF AFEdemy

By booking or participating in a tour and any related products or services (herein after

referred as “service”) with AFEdemy you agree to these Terms & Conditions

The study tour to Age Friendly Ireland includes 2 nights at Bellinter House (Navan),

breakfasts, lunches and dinners, transport within Ireland, transfer to and from Dublin

Airport, site visits and entrance fees. Costs 650,00€ per person, VAT excluded.

General payment terms

50% of the total sum is due 14 days after reservation and in case of the Age Friendly Ireland

study tour before January 10, 2018. The final sum must be paid before January 31, 2018. If

the reservation is done less than 21 days before the beginning of the study tour, the whole

amount of reservation has to be paid immediately. In any case, all due amounts are to be

paid before the beginning of the study tour.

All payments will be done following this method of payment:

Method of payment Bank transfer within 14 working days Bank name ING

Beneficiary Academy on Age-Friendly Environments in Europe B.V. International Bank Account Nr (IBAN) NL87 INGB 0007 7642 74

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General terms of cancellation

In case of cancellation, we use the cancellation policy as mentioned below. There are no

extra charges if the participant will be replaced by a colleague of the same company,

unless, change fees from 3rd parties apply, which shall then be paid by the company itself.

Notice of cancellation by email only Date Return percentage of the paid amount

Notice until 50 days before 02/01/2018 80%

Notice until 40 days before 14/01/2018 60%

Notice until 21 days before   30/01/2018 0%

In case AFEdemy has to cancel the tour, participants get refunded the whole booking

amount, minus 95,00€ per person administration costs.