The 4 Stage Process | Working towards being Age Friendly
Engage & Understand
- Set Up a local steering group
- Perform participatory age-friendly assessments
- Conduct a baseline assessment with a healthy ageing profile (to include a walkability audit)
- Present & disseminate the assessment
Plan Strategically
- Unite partners behind a common sision
- Analyse strengths and weaknesses and define priorities
- Develop a comprehensive strategy, defining overall goals and time frame
- Define objectives and get approval
- Define responsibilities
Act & Implement
- Design an operational plan
- Consult on the action plan and involve older people at all stages
- Secure support and resources
- scale up successful action
Evaluate & Monitor
- Create partnerships with universities and research institutions
- Monitor processes continually
- Undertake outcome and impact evaluation
- Sustain and improve action informed by evidence
- Learn from successful action in national and international networks