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Creating Aging-FriendlyCommunities

Andrew Scharlach, PhD

Kleiner Professor of Aging

University of California, Berkeley

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Preparing for an Aging America

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What Do Aging Boomers Want?

Remain in their own homes orneighborhoods

See friends, social networks

Get to shopping, health care

Be safe

Be healthy

Be involved in the community

Maturing of America Survey, Part 2.

(National Association of Area Agencies on Aging)

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Concepts for Healthy Aging

Continuity

Compensation

ControlConnection

Contribution

Challenge

Lehning, A., Chun, Y., & Scharlach, A. (2007). Structural barriers to

developing aging-friendlycommunities. Public Policy & Aging Report,

17, 15-20.

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Aging-FriendlyDomains

Physical infrastructure (hardware) Built environment

Technological innovations

Goods

Social infrastructure (software) Services

Social capital development

Social participation

Individual empowerment

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Aging-Friendly

Transportation

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Aging-Friendly

Housing

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Mixed Land UseEighth and Pearl, Boulder, Colorado

Source: EPA Smart Growth Award Winners

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Models for Creating

Aging-Friendly Communities

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Neighborhood-Based Services

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Community Partnerships for Older Adults

S i M b hi A i i

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Senior Membership Associations

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A society for all ages is multigenerational.

It is not fragmented, with youths, adults andolder persons going their separate ways.

Rather, it is age-inclusive, with different

generations recognizing and acting upon

their commonality of interest.

A Society for All Ages

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, October, 1998

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THANK YOU!

Andrew E. Scharlach, Ph. D.

Eugene and Rose Kleiner Professor of Aging

School of Social Welfare