LAUNCH OF CARLOW AGE FRIENDLY CAR PARKING SPACES On a wet and windy Monday 9th November the launch of Carlow Age Friendly car parking spaces took place at Kennedy Avenue, Carlow by Cathaoirleach Charlie Murphy accompanied by Kathleen Holohan, Chief Executive of Carlow County Council, Paul Maher, Chairperson of the Older Person’s Forum and Mary […]
St Munchin’s Community Centre Limerick St Munchin’s Community Centre Limerick celebrate their 10th Anniversary. Take a look at this great short video which encapsulates their story so far. http://youtu.be/Hdzjy-Quf5U
Cathaoirleach Award Congratulations to Galway’s Older People’s Council on winning the Cathaoirleach Award for producing the Galway Directory of Services for Older People. Well done!! Galway’s Older People’s Council launched their Directory of Services for Older People
Listening meetings are designed to engage with targeted groups to look at how they experience health care services at a local, regional and national level. In October and November 2014 a series of Listening meetings where held between the HSE and five Older Peoples Councils. The HSE Quality Improvement Division met with older people from […]
What Age Friendly Cities & Counties can achieve For Ireland to become truly Age-Friendly all Sectors of Society, Government, Service Providers, Local Authorities, Police and the General Public must be involved. We all have our part to play. In this document you will find examples of the kinds of creative and ambitious, but also practical […]
A synopsis of key learnings gathered to date from 2009 – 14. This report brings together many of the practical learnings and solutions introduced to date through the Age Friendly cities and Counties Programme. Download our report here AFI Story So Far-29615
Age Friendly Ireland launched its Statement of Strategy 2015-2017 on 16th September at an event hosted by Conn Murray, Chair of the County & City Management Association (CCMA) and Director, Age Friendly Ireland at the Local Government Management Agency. Download our Strategy AW_AgeFriendly_StatementStrategy
Housing Summit explores options for older person’s housing October 7th, 2015 Dublin City Council hosts a Housing Summit on Wednesday 7th October, 2015 beginning at 9.30 a.m. in the Wood Quay Venue, Dublin 8. This meeting of senior decision makers from the Departments of Environment, Health and Local Government and the voluntary sector will examine […]
HEALTHY & POSITIVE AGEING INITIATIVE PRELIMINARY REPORT Minister’s Foreword Positive and healthy ageing are in everyone’s interest In the past, policy relating to older people tended to deal almost exclusively with health and social care issues, focusing on burden and costs. With the launch of the National Positive Ageing Strategy, this Government sought to change […]
As Chairperson of Age Friendly Ireland I would like to warmly welcome you to the fourth edition of Age Friendly News. This edition contains the launch of a key document ‘Age Friendly; The Story So Far’ which provides an overview of some of the many relevant programme practices that have emerged through the Age Friendly […]