Innovation for Age-Friendly Buildings, Cities and Environments
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A COMPILATION OF GOOD PRACTICES Action Group on Innovation for Age-friendly buildings, cities and environments This publication was prepared by the European Commission, DG SANCO and DG CONNECT and Funka Nu based on the material sent by members of the Action Group D4 in September-October 2013. The main contributors were from Funka NU, José Angel Martinez Usero, Frida Westholm, Louise Tengstrand and Eibhilin Manning, Jorge Pinto Antunes, Espen Kristoffersen and Horst Kraemer under the supervision of Maria Iglesia Gomez, Head of Unit Innovation for Health and Consumer and Ilias Iakovidis, Head of Unit for Digital Social Platforms. The publication was presented at the 2nd Conference of Partners of the European Innovation Partnership for Active and Healthy Ageing, which took place in Brussels on 25 November 2013 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 4 LIST OF GOOD PRACTICES ................................................................................. 8 CLUSTER 1. LIVING ENVIRONMENTS ................................................................ 19 CLUSTER 2. ACTIVE AGEING IN THE COMMUNITY ........................................... 115 CLUSTER 3. ACTIVE & HEALTHY LIFESTYLES .................................................. 171 CLUSTER 4. DEMENTIA SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENTS .................................... 204 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................... 221 INDEX OF GOOD PRACTICES, ORGANISED BY COUNTRY ................................. 222 3 ACTION GROUP on "Innovation for age-friendly buildings, cities and environments" INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION This is a collection of Good Practices within the to the Action Plan1 adopted by the group in frame of the Action Group working on year 2012 which sets priority areas of Innovation for age-friendly buildings, cities collaborative work. The collection reflects a and environments of the European Innovation good sample of the work being carried out by Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, an stakeholders working in this area. The Good exercise which ran from July to October 2013. Practices span across 32 regions in 12 Member The collection of the Good Practices reflects a States (Belgium, Czech Republic, France, snapshot of innovative age-friendly practices Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, across the EU in 2013. Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands & United Kingdom) and Norway. The "Innovation for Age-friendly buildings, cities and environments" Action Group has been working to implement innovative solutions to develop environments that are more age-friendly and promote active and healthy living. The 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. The Action Group brings together regional and local authorities from across the EU, European NGOs, technology providers, universities, research centres, SMEs and other stakeholders. 62 Good Practices from the Action Group partners working on age-friendly environments form this collection; they reflect their contributions on behalf of their commitments 1 http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation- union/pdf/active-healthy-ageing/d4_action_plan.pdf 4 ACTION GROUP on "Innovation for age-friendly buildings, cities and environments" For the purposes of this collection, the Good lifelong learning, mobility in the Practices have been clustered in four thematic community, online portals & tools, social areas. The four clusters are: interaction and social engagement and Cluster 1 Living environments. Under empowering older people. Cluster 1 there are 31 Good Practices, Cluster 3 Active & Healthy Lifestyles has which include three sub-clusters 10 Good Practices comprises of two respectively on Ambient Assisted Living, subclusters, Physical Activity and Tourism, Housing and Urban Environment. The which includes practices on social Good Practices range from living labs, to platforms, tourism plans, and wellbeing responding to climate change, to activities. incorporating intergenerational Cluster 4 focuses on Dementia Supportive communication, rehabilitation and urban Environments and has 5 Good Practices planning, including community support and Cluster 2 Active Ageing in the Community. solutions. This cluster brings together 16 Good The Good Practices exercise reinforces the Practices, the three sub-clusters are Age- targets set out in the European Innovation Friendly Businesses and services, Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing Transportation and Voice of the Older Action Plan on Age-friendly environments, and Person. The thematic coverage of the builds an evidence base of practices in the EU. practices includes accessibility services, 5 ACTION GROUP on "Innovation for age-friendly buildings, cities and environments" While our knowledge of the links between researchers and business in the ageing urban planning and public and social health field and through the use of ICT solutions continues to improve, there is an increasing that increase social interaction of older urgency to address the barriers to rapid and people with their families for example, sustained take-up of age-friendly environment improving intergenerational solidarity implementation throughout Europe. The Good whilst also promoting the wellbeing of Practices go in some part towards identifying older people. and addressing some of the barriers outlined in Overall the Good Practices show the vast the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing Age-friendly environments experience the partners of the Action Action Plan: Group have in empowering older people, ensuring their voice is heard in the the complexity, variability, layering and planning and development of services and fragmentation of governance structures support. This collection also emphasises throughout the EU to coordinate the importance of housing to extend the integrated implementation plans; amount of time older people can remain the challenge of achieving and at home but at the same time through ICT empowering the active participation of solutions improving communication older people in the change processes; between older people and their circle of support, and ultimately reinforcing social the lack of sufficient, replicable, evidence- participation. informed practices and guidelines to accelerate the scalability and transfer of The Good Practice also show how the successful innovations; planning and design of urban environments is a key to promote active & the lack of age-friendly environment healthy lifestyles for older people but that implementation expertise to translate age-friendly environments also contribute strategies and policies into better ‘quality to the wellbeing of all citizens, visible pilot of life’ outcomes for older people. projects in the urban environment, are designed in close participation with all This Good Practices collection also provides a citizens, and local initiatives such as good illustration of heuristic areas for future Walking Groups targeted at all citizens. work: The rationale of this Good Practices exercise is to build a bank of information, The collection gives several examples of which can be used as a starting point for ways to innovate living environments, mapping innovative age-friendly services and activities whilst promoting environment practices across Europe. It is older people’s active part in the the intention to try to align this good community, namely through accessibility practice collection work with the recently along design for all guidelines; by ensuring launched Age-friendly Environments in older people are involved in the Europe (AFEE) WHO/European and development of new products and European Commission project. For that services, for example by linking their reason, it is specified whether the good knowledge and experience with practice refers to any of the eight domains 6 ACTION GROUP on "Innovation for age-friendly buildings, cities and environments" of the WHO framework “Global age- friendly cities: a guide.”2 In parallel, the EC-funded thematic network on ‘Innovation for age-friendly buildings, cities and environments’ shall also continue the work of this Good Practices collection and develop a repository for age-friendly environment practices. Strong synergies with this work will be made with the future repository of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing which will host an interactive "map" of all Good Practices across Action Groups so that they can be easily updated, searched and shared. It is expected that this collection will be the first building block towards a unified repository that serves the long-term goal of maintaining a stable and updated repository of active and healthy ageing practices across the EU. 2 http://www.who.int/ageing/publications/Global_age_frien dly_cities_Guide_English.pdf. The eight Age-friendly City domains are housing, transportation, civic participation and employment, outdoor spaces and buildings, respect and social inclusion, community support and health services, social participation, and information and communication 7 LIST OF GOOD PRACTICES Organization Title Country Region Geographical Clusters Page scope ACCEPLAN Improving Spain España. Residential Cluster 1. 85 Accessibility in Madrid neighborhood Living the Urban