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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