How Age Friendly is This City? Strategies for Assessing Age-Friendliness

The Age-Friendly Cities framework, created by the World Health Organization (WHO), has emerged as a community-based response to the challenges of demographic aging and increasing urbanization. In 2010, London, Ontario, became the first city in Canada to join the WHO Global Network of Age-Friendly Communities. Network milestones require the measurement of the baseline age-friendliness of the community. The objectives of this thesis are: 1. Determine the best available assessment tools for measuring the age-friendliness of a community, and 2. Establish the baseline age-friendliness of London, Ontario. A scoping review was utilized to collect and assess available surveys and questionnaires. A quantitative survey of older adults in London was used to determine the baseline age-friendliness of the city and provide a template for other cities and communities. Findings indicate there is a paucity of tools available for AFC, and London is a moderately age-friendly city with specific areas for improvement.

Name thesis:degree_name

M Sc

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Grantor dc:publisher

The University of Western Ontario

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Dellamora, Michelle

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Zecevic, Aleksandra

• Age-friendly
• World Health Organization
• Age Friendly London
• baseline assessment
• Community Assessment Survey for Older Adults (CASOA)

Language dc:language.iso

en_ca

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14721/36888

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:uwo.scholaris.ca:20.500.14721/36888