Title:جوامع دوستدار سن

این وب‌کست فقط برای مشاهده در دسترس است. برای اعتبار AICP CM قابل استفاده نیست. ۲۰۱۳-۰۵-۲۴ ارائه دهندگان: مارگارت نیل، جانا لینوت و دوریان بلاک سونامی پیری آغاز شده است. بررسی‌ها نشان می‌دهد که اکثریت قریب به اتفاق افراد مسن – تقریباً ۹۰ درصد افراد بالای ۶۵ سال – می‌خواهند در جای خود پیر شوند. با رشد جمعیت مسن تر، میزان مشارکت افراد مسن در زندگی اجتماعی تا حدی با نحوه طراحی جوامع تعیین می شود. ساکنان مسن‌تر می‌گویند که می‌خواهند جامعه آن‌ها سازگارتر با سن باشد. وظیفه دلهره آور است. چگونه برنامه ریزان می توانند جوامع سازگار با سن بیشتری ایجاد کنند؟ ویژگی های جوامع دوستدار سن چیست؟ این جلسه شبکه AARP از جوامع دوستدار سن را ارائه می دهد. این برنامه به شبکه جهانی شهرها و جوامع دوستدار سن سازمان جهانی بهداشت (WHO) وابسته است و برای تقویت سیاست‌های عمومی و برنامه‌ریزی در سراسر کشور طراحی شده است که شهرها را دوستانه‌تر و پذیرای جمعیت‌های سالخورده‌تر می‌کند. تمرکز بر بهبود کیفیت زندگی سالمندان و ایجاد جوامعی دوستانه برای همه سنین است. WHO هشت حوزه از زندگی شهری را شناسایی کرده است که بر سلامت و رفاه سالمندان تأثیر می گذارد: • فضاهای بیرونی و ساختمان ها • حمل و نقل • مسکن • مشارکت اجتماعی • احترام و شمول اجتماعی • مشارکت مدنی و اشتغال • ارتباطات و اطلاعات • حمایت و سلامت جامعه خدمات سخنرانان تجربه روی زمینی تلاش‌های سازگار با سن و مدل‌های حمل‌ونقل پورتلند، اورگان و نیویورک سیتی را به اشتراک خواهند گذاشت تا نمونه‌های عینی از این که چگونه ایالت‌ها و دولت‌های محلی چگونه پیری را تقویت می‌کنند، ارائه می‌کنند.

قسمتي از متن فيلم: All attendees are in listen only mode hi everyone and welcome to the webcast my name is brittany kavinsky it is now 1pm so we will begin our presentation shortly today on friday may 24th we will have our presentation on age friendly communities given by margaret neal dorian block and jana lennon

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Cm credits we’re also recording today’s webcast and it will be available on our youtube channel later today just search planning webcast on youtube a pdf of the powerpoint will be made available upon request and at this time i would like to introduce ramona molhay who will introduce our speakers for today

Margaret neil dorian block good morning everybody and good afternoon for those on the east coast this is ramona malahi and i’m the past chair for the private practice division and today’s session on age friendly communities is really addressing an issue a problem a phenomenon that we all know is occurring now

I think the pew research says that every day ten thousand baby boomers reach the age of sixty five so american planning association through their divisions council has created on the radar which looks at some of the emerging issues for planners and today’s is on the aging of

Baby boomers and aging tsunami we do have a divisions council initiative called aging and livable communities and you can find it on the apa webpage at resources on the radar statistics show us that by 2030 more than 70 million americans which is twice the number in 2000 will be 65 and older

Representing nearly 20 percent of the total u.s population at that time older adults will comprise nearly one in five americans we know that tremendous advances in health care economic security well maybe not totally economic security with the fiscal situation we have now and the delivery of supportive services have

Really done a tremendous job in regards to prolonging life and the experience of aging we want to live longer we live healthier lives and some of us want to work longer as the older population grows we are finding that we people want to live in place we want to

Age in place we want communities that we can live for a lifetime aging in place is really the ability to live in one’s own home and community safely independently comfortably regardless of age income or ability level as the older population grows the degree that we are able to

Live in place or age in place becomes challenging so for those of us in communities in which we are looking at an aging population here are some of the resources that you can use to get a better sense as to what that demographic is all about the profile of older americans

Older americans 2012 key indicators of well-being checklist of essential features of age friendly cities aging in place a state survey of livability policies and practices today’s session is really going to talk about how can we create age-friendly communities age-friendly cities and some and these publications on this page

These resources are really some of the basis of what you’ll be hearing today let me introduce today’s speakers our first speaker will be margaret neal and margaret is the director of the institute on aging she where she oversees the age-friendly portland project and the aging matters locally and globally initiative she does research

Among top among her topics of research are the characteristics and creation of age-friendly cities and communities transportation options for older adults and strategies for promoting healthy aging our next speaker is going to be dorian block dorian is the project manager of the age-friendly new york city initiative age-friendly new york city

Aims to engage all public and private sectors of the city to become more inclusive of older adults the initiative is really staffed by the new york academy of medicine in partnership with the mayor’s office and the new york city council in her role dorian leeds decree has led the creation of

Neighborhood level asian improvement districts really a phenomenal program and she’s worked with city agencies to integrate the concept into their agenda and she advises cities all around the world how to launch their own age-friendly initiatives our last speaker is jana lynette she is a senior strategic policy advisor

On the livable communities team in aarp’s public policy institute there she focuses on a broad array of planning and policy issues including human services transportation coordination complete streets and the travel patterns of older adults today she will talk a little bit from her recent publication weaving it together a tapestry of

Transportation funding for older adults margaret and dorian will talk about the age-friendly communities so all three speakers will give you an idea how planners can the tools that planners have and programs in terms of on the ground addressing the issue of aging and now let me turn to our first speaker margaret neal

Welcome margaret hello i’m very happy to be here um i’m going to share my screen here all right great what i want to do is talk with you about the world health organization age friendly cities project as it is implemented here in portland oregon and what has happened since that time

First just a few more demographics focusing more on global aging issues our world is aging in 2006 11 of the global population was age 60 and over and yet by 2050 it will be 22 and at that time there will be more older people than children age 0 to 14

For the first time in history also another trend that’s important to take account of is that more of the world’s population is living in urban areas whereas in 2007 about 49 lived in urban areas by 2030 the number jumps to 60 and most of that growth is occurring in cities of

Less than 5 million and also in developing regions the world health organization in 2002 created a model which they called their active aging model and essentially what that model portrays is the fact that we have a number of factors that determine how well we age and not just how well we’re doing

At any given time but those factors determine our cumulative well-being over our life course and they account for differences in life expectancy and health status and well-being and they include social determinants economic determinants health and social services behavioral determinants personal determinants and the physical environment and all of that within the

Context of our gender and our culture so before we get any further let me define what the world health organization uses this its definition of an internal city it’s a city that adapts its structures and services to be accessible to and inclusive of older people with varying needs and capacities

It’s a city that emphasizes enablement rather than disablement and it’s friendly for people of all ages not just age friendly so how does planning well i think a quote that’s particularly useful is one by james jacobs who wrote cities have the capability of providing something for everybody only because and

Only when they are created by everyone that is important because the world health organizations model for an age-friendly city insists on the involvement of older adults in creating an age from a city and then the definition by the american planning association its own definition of what planning is is an important

Indicator of why planning fits in planning is a dynamic profession that works to improve the welfare of people and their communities by creating more convenient equitable efficient and attractive places for present and future generations so the objectives of the world health organization uh age-friendly cities project were essentially to create concrete

Indicators of what an age-friendly city would be and to produce a practical guide so that advocacy efforts uh community planning policy efforts could all be instituted to create more age-friendly urban communities for the cities that participated in the study the goal was to increase awareness of local needs and gaps and

Identify good ideas for improvement again in order to stimulate development of a more age-friendly urban setting margaret um could you uh speak a little closer to the microphone some of the attendees are having a little difficulty hearing okay is that better that’s better thank you okay thanks i apologize

Uh the project sites that were part of the who study were recruited through informal networks of the who project readers connections that they had to name municipal or state governments and through promoting the project at professional conferences in the end focus groups were conducted in 33 cities and 22 countries

And the participating cities were diverse ranging from cities in 19 developing and 14 industrialized countries and there were mega cities involved as well as smaller communities and neighborhoods this is a map that shows where all of the cities participating in the original age-friendly cities project were located and you can see there’s

There’s quite an array of representation all the different continents so throughout the world was represented portland was one of the cities that participated the portland region is used by some as a poster child for regional planning both management and other innovative urban planning practices and policies yet planning for older adults had

Received very little attention we at the institute on aging were actually approached by the world health organization to conduct this study in part because of work that we had done with an arm of the who the pan-american health organization and the institute on evening is one of the oldest aging

Research centers in the u.s created in 1969 we are located in an urban serving university portland state university with a motto of let knowledge serve the city and our mission is to enhance understanding of aging and facilitate opportunities for elders families and communities to thrive so we viewed

Although there was no funding associated with conducting this research we viewed this as a very important opportunity um to be engaged in and contribute to making portland an even better place for people of all ages and countries we did have a history of doing some work in this area

We created what i think may be the first planning document related to an aging society at least in the u.s we wrote a report that was published by the apa in 1994 called planning for immediate society and then we had also been requested by our regional government metro

To look at age-related shifts in housing and transportation demand in order to help metro begin its planning process for our aging region the research design was created by the who through its vancouver protocol as i mentioned focus groups were conducted and everyone who participated in these focus groups which included

Older adult groups informal caregiver groups and providers of service including professional government staff business people and merchant merchants and staff of voluntary organizations each group of people was asked to identify positive and negative features of the city and suggestions for improvement on eight features of urban life which were built upon the who

Active aging framework and this is a diagram that demonstrates those eight domains which basically fall into two categories the built environment which includes outdoor spaces and buildings transportation and housing and then the social environment which includes community support and health services communication and information civic participation and employment respect and social inclusion

And social participation we created a local project advisory council from people here at the university our county our local county aarp oregon elders in action another advisory group a senior housing provider a community college and of course a senior representative and advocate initially what we were engaged in following the research

Which i’m not able to talk with you about today the actual research findings but i will give you a link so that you can see our summary report as well as our full report in case you’re interested so after we conducted that research the current mayor mayor tom cotter had

Initiated a vision pdx effort and this was essentially to create a vision for the city for the next 20 plus years and so using the findings from our study we made comments to the vision pdx effort and those were incorporated in the final report for that effort we also

Joined a healthy aging work group that had been created here in the city then we had a new mayor elected that was mayor sam adams and he initiated his own visioning effort called the portland plan which was overseen by the city bureau of planning sustainability and the portland plan was intended to be

A three-year action plan that was preparatory to revising our comprehensive plan which is a 25-year strategic plan the portland plan was supposed to be completed in spring of 2011 and it was and its goal was to make portland a more thriving and sustainable city for all portland residents

The mayor did create an advisory group for overseeing that effort and invited us to serve on that advisory group essentially our role was to ensure that detention was given to the needs the strengths of older people and people with disabilities basically what it meant was attending a lot of meetings

Countless immune systems and continually raising our hand and saying what about older adults what about people with disabilities so in 2010 the world health organization created its global network of age-friendly cities they did that because there was a lot of interest in this concept of age-friendly cities and there were communities and

Cities throughout the world who were interested in having an opportunity to network with one another share experiences learn from one another so this network was created with this cycle a five-year cycle so you would join the network and in order to join the network you needed to have a plan that involved

Older people in conducting a baseline assessment of age friendliness you needed to develop an action plan and i identify indicators of success then you needed to implement your action plan and monitor your indicators and then based on that monitoring um revise your your actions identify new ones and the cycle then will repeat

The who invited applications from cities to join the network and we approached portland’s mayor sam adams we pointed out the synergies with the portland plan including the consistent timelines it was all really quite convenient we offered to prepare an application to the network we did and we obtained a letter of support from

The mayor and our application was accepted by whi and we were one of nine emission cities to be accepted into the global network um the picture on the right here is a photograph of it that was taken when we presented the formal official acceptance into the who global network to the city council

And since that time we have participated in the first international conference on three friendly cities in dublin ireland that was in fall of 2011 and this fall of 2013 is the second international conference that’s being held in quebec city and you can find information about that

On the web if you just type in international conference um in the fall of 2011 we augmented our advisory council we expanded it uh for the purpose of advising on the portland plan the comprehensive plan and developing our own action plan and this is a list of the representatives on that

Advisory council so we have the university we have our advocacy organizations we have of course the city of portland bureaucratic sustainability but i will point out that they were not on our initial advisory group and that was clearly an oversight multnomah county aging disability service we have the offices of the mayor

And the city catholic commissioners represented and a number of other groups so the goal of the portland plan as i mentioned was to make cleveland a more thriving and sustainable place for all residents and this is just a picture of the draft of that plan and the plan was released in march 2012

And the prank came out and there was nothing in it about older adults nothing and we couldn’t believe it um and so after some initial frustration we realized that really our only recourse was to write comments in which he wants to do the plan so we did we

Wrote very extensive comments and as did other uh aging and disability groups who were part of our advisory council and then the bureau of planning and sustainability requested a meeting with us and realized i mean they said that that somehow we could just slip through the crafts this need to focus on

Portland as a place for all generations the planning commission had also requested that we present our work to them and the end result was that the portland plan now in fact does specifically address how portland can become a more age-friendly city and it does it in this page here

Called portland is a place for all generations and it outlines specific action items and those include uh developing an age-friendly city action plan which we’re still in the process of doing but with all of our partners expanding the availability of accessible housing concentrating on the creation of age-friendly accessible community hubs

Fostering safe and accessible civic corridors increasing access to their services within medical institutions and i would add here that there is increasing attention to rather than creating ever larger hospitals and and medical complexes that attention be paid to neighborhood clinics and i think that’s a direction that we’re hopefully

Going to be moving in an apartment area another action step was to create intergenerational mentoring networks and finally to bolster the framework for equity which uh in this new office of equity that was created uh aging and disability has a place a focus area of that office so now the city’s updating its

Comprehensive plan and that plan covers goals and policies related to land use and physical environments so not so much on the social side of it in the creation of that plan ten policy expert groups were formed and we are serving on the neighborhood centers transferred through

Just to give you a sense for us a few of the things that we’ve been involved in to create a more age-friendly city um specifically our approach let me just say that our approach generally has been to create an age-friendly city working through existing planning mechanisms so that’s why we became so

Involved in the portland plan and now in the comprehensive plan because it’s horrible that that is a way to most sustainably and assuredly create a city that is humanly competitive and abilities and i have to say that as a researcher i never would have imagined the advocacy role that i’ve played in

This effort but it’s been very rewarding working very closely with the bureau planning sustainability and other city bureaus toward this and but we don’t have a lot of very glitzy projects to deal with but i’ll show you a few so the office of equity and human rights

I said was created and aging and disability is now a part of that in collaboration with the commissioner of the office of equity and human rights city council chambers were improved to provide better access to people of all ages and abilities there were problems with doors being able to be opened by

People in in using wheelchairs there were pathway obstructions there wasn’t the availability companion cd and those things have now been remedied uh there have been a number of infrastructure improvements the portland bureau of planning worked with aging and disability advocates to better serve pedestrian cyclists and transit unit users

The previous design or the initial design was really considered dangerous for a mix of those users and it really didn’t have clear separated uses so the before picture is the one on the bottom and the after is the one on the top there were also some transit improvements were made this top

Photograph shows the ramp that extends from the portland streetcar down to the street level and it’s not it’s not a huge elevation but a ramp is needed and that ramp had a lip on it and it turned out that those that was essentially a federally mandated design but through

Aging disability advocates an amendment with the federal transit administration was made so that that lip would be eliminated because it was really wheelchairs and uh were hanging up on them people with walkers were tripping over them uh they actually turned them up out to be really very dangerous so those clips have now

Been eliminated from the streetcar um so we’ve we’ve had a number of successes i talked about one at least initial failure which was when the portland time came out and didn’t talk about it but i just wanted to highlight a few of the barriers to creating an age-friendly city just so

That we can all be aware of those and then begin to strategize on how we can overcome them so there are multiple jurisdictions that provide different services so at least here in our region so the city is in charge of the infrastructure and parking and house planning division

The county oversees social services and aging services including a 24 7 helpline which is staffed by life development which people through as extremely age-friendly um and then our region uh transportation is overseen at the regional level and also there are long-term planning efforts that go on there and that’s through metro

Um here as in i think probably most other cities in the u.s we have a severe lack of government resources for maintenance for development and redevelopment citizen participation is both a plus and a minus in in our case here in portland there was pushback when the new mayor sam adams created his

Initial portland plan and people had just finished participating in the former mayor’s visioning effort vision pdx and it just seemed like such a waste to so many people and then there was concern about uh there has been from citizens about how how to ensure um appropriate action will

Be taken when participation is requested and that’s of course a new problem um you’ve heard me name two mayors we now have a third one charlie gales is our turn there and those transitions in government leader can leadership can be really very challenging um and then there are competing agendas of

Stakeholders so elected officials have a set of agenda researchers have uh have their own agenda private sector and planning for older adults can really vary as a priority across all of the different needs of a of a citizenry for education economic development homelessness by friendliness is a large issue here in portland

Planning for older adults needs to take place in that context and then finally our university government community partnership is involving the traditional role of the university is to do research and to some extent provide expert advice we’ve now stepped into the realm of advocacy partnerships are crucial

As advisors and advocates but the bottom line is that the government has to implement whatever actions are developed and so that is that is a potential uh a barrier especially when governments are short on funds but we also know that there are continuing infrastructure improvements and if we can just take into account

Deep friendliness as we’re needing to make those improvements anyway then that is one way to um slowly surely increase age-friendliness of the community and additional translational research is needed but funding is required and it’s like government resources can ensure supply so our role at the university has essentially been to conduct the baseline

Research and dissenting findings to engage with the mayor’s office to write the network application and service liaison to the network to engage with and serve as a resource to the bureau of planning and sustainability staff to find and collaborate with community partners to take a pretty active role in the

Portland plan and prepare detailed comments contribute to the comprehensive plan now preparing our portland after action plan and developing indicators of progress and really be persistent and collaborate and collaborate and collaborate here are some resources through our through our efforts here the top photograph here is a summary of findings

That we thank aarp oregon for helping us create copies of we recently published an article in metroscape which is a newsletter magazine published here at portland state it’s called planning for an aging society here’s a picture of an appointment plan and a link to it and the draft

Comprehensive and you can see where we’re at with that now so thank you very much for your attention and look forward to questions at the end of our session today and i turn you over to durian block hello everyone it is my honor to speak to all of you today

And i believe that my presentation will be very complimentary to margaret’s presentation basically new york city has been working since 2008 to implement the world health organization’s age friendly cities initiative in the city here and much of our work has overlapped with margaret’s work but some of it is different and i think

There’s strengths in each of the models and so i hope that you take away that message as you’re hearing both of us today and so just to give you an overview you saw the map that margaret had earlier which showed the original age-friendly cities and that were involved in the research

Process this map which is a little bit you can’t quite pinpoint individual cities so we have them written out shows which of the communities are involved at this moment in the network and they really vary in size so at this moment it could be there are networks across entire countries for example in

Quebec there is a whole network of communities that are involved and in portugal and in france but then there are also individual large metropolis as there are counties and regions who are also involved in that each friendly cities network there we go i’m sorry i had a problem advancing my slide

So in new york the initiative is a joint partnership between the new york academy of medicine which is where i work we’re a non-profit organization that has been working in the city since 1847 together with the office of the mayor and the new york city council and

That partnership is very important to us because it brings together two bodies of government and two branches of government and also brings together the private sector and we also have a commission that is led by private business people and so our main focus of the initiative is that it

Should be seen as a governmental initiative but also seen as something that belongs to the whole city and that we all need to respond to the aging of the population the project began by first consulting older people in new york just like the work in portland did and we’ve spoken to

More than 2 000 older people over several years we continue to have these consultations now as each part of our program continues we’ve talked to people in over 14 neighborhoods in five different languages and and focused on 10 different immigrant groups in new york about 43 percent of the older adult

Population in new york city was born in another country so this is a very important component of our work what we learned from people in these consultations is that they love new york city and they want to stay here they want to continue living the lives that they’ve always lived and that the

Strengths that they see in this city are are many of the same strengths that people of all ages see but they become even more important with age how our large public transportation system our wonderful health and social services our cultural institutions our density of resources the fact that

You can walk and pretty much find what you need in many of the city’s neighborhoods but then at the same time the challenges that we heard from people or around affordability is a major problem in new york city and also mobility accessibility issues also issues where people who don’t speak english as their

Primary language and also the changing social networks which are happening all around the world and around this country that people no longer live in the same place where their whole family lives and as people age that it becomes even more difficult because people’s spouses partners friends pass away move away

And how do people adjust to that shift so after we put all the information together that we heard from people in the city we put out a report around those findings and then the city government in new york city said okay we’re going to assess the age friendliness of every one of our

Departments so here up on the screen you have some of the logos of the many agencies that make up new york city government and what we asked people to do was for example the parks department to you know when they first looked at this they said okay we’re worried friendly we

Have parks and older people use our parks and we even have some special programming for older people and we said okay but think about information what about when you have an event can someone find out that that’s happening do they have to just passively look at the internet what

If they don’t use the internet is there are you connected to community organizations to publicize things are you making sure that you’re using different formats is there lighting is there seating what about transportation to the park if i can’t get to the park i can’t use it

And so across every department we have that sort of review as a result the city government put together 59 recommendations to expand new initiatives that had to do with age friendly now some of those initiatives were things that the city was already working on but certainly benefited older people some of them were

Aspirational like to create more affordable housing and there’s some advances that are being made in that area and then some were these really kind of mid-term medium-term exciting new things so which i’m going to tell you about today we rolled these into the top seven strategies for planning an age friendly

Community which we’re hoping may help you as you’re moving forward in your work so our first strategy is plan for an aging population when making needed or required upgrades so some of the things that we’re doing in new york city around this area are looking at taxis this is a very

Controversial thing in new york we recently had the city recently had a taxi that was designed that as the other taxis get phased out medallion holders are are forced to buy these new taxis and making sure that they are age friendly and we’ve been advocating in various ways to

Try to make that happen also to look at street furniture when you’re placing benches when you’re placing lighting are you thinking about older people when you have recreation centers that are public facilities are you thinking about the exercise equipment that’s needed that’s appropriate for older people are you considering universal design standards

In all that you’re building our second strategy use or modify existing resources in creative new ways so for example we have these school buses in new york city which is a resource that communities all around the country have of course and the drivers are being paid throughout the entire day

And the buses are there all day and yet there’s a period of time in the middle of the day when they’re not being used by anyone and so how do we potentially use those buses to help transport older people now they’re not an ideal form of transportation because they have steps

To get up to them and there’s smaller seats and you know the shock absorption is not fabulous but at the same time um it’s a wonderful resource and so in new york we have hundreds of trips every year where groups of older people that are connected through a special partnership

With our department of education and our department for the aging they’re allowed to use the school buses similarly in new york city we have a paratransit system as most communities have and our paratransit system has many problems it’s called accessorize having to do with delays having to do with

People having to wait outside on the streets to be picked up and so we had a special pilot in several neighborhoods where older adults who could use a taxi so maybe it doesn’t work for everyone if you needed for example personalized assistance and use a wheelchair um but you could be

Reimbursed for your taxi rides instead of taking accessoride and this saves the government money because in fact it costs upwards more than 70 dollars per person per trip for the government to use accessorize some other things that we did these are some of the most notable improvements

That you can probably see if you come visit new york city and walk around or perhaps you are on this webinar and you are living in new york city there are basically low cost improvements put to pedestrian safety so we’ve extended pedestrian crossing times at hundreds of intersections and changed vehicle

Turning rules painted new street lines this has all been wrapped together into a program the city calls safe streets for seniors which is run by our department of transportation and basically what this program does is it identified 25 neighborhoods throughout the city with the highest numbers of pedestrian injuries and

Fatalities then went into those communities had consultations with the people who lived there and chose key intersections to redesign there have been more than 100 intersections that have been redesigned redesigned through this process a lot of the funding for this comes through new freedom dollars which janna who is our

Next presenter can talk a little bit about and are available to communities throughout the country so an example of of one of the street redesigns if you look at the bottom of this slide over here this is the old intersection in chinatown in the bowery area and as

You see it’s a very very long crossing and many different competing needs all at once and under the safe streets for seniors program a new pedestrian island was built in the middle to give people a resting place also if you look parking was removed and there’s a new bike lane added over here

And there were many other changes also to the lighting and to curbs being bumped out now this is happening throughout the city this is a higher cost change because of the pedestrian island being built in but in many of the other intersections that we’ve been working with it often is just

Moving a stop line further back changing the timing of the intersection in this case it reduced pedestrian injuries by 50 and if anyone’s interested in learning more about this program you can go to our department of transportation to their safe streets for seniors website and see many of the results they’ve had in

Different neighborhoods in the first five neighborhoods where this was implemented pedestrian injuries were reduced by between nine and sixty percent this was um in the next year and non-pedestrian crashes were reduced by 23 to 46 percent we’ve had even more exciting results we had a recent an intersection that was

Completed over a year ago that had a 90 decrease in pedestrian injuries and so we’re very excited and proud of this program our third strategy that we want to offer you is to ensure that older adults know about existing opportunities and resources so what we found in new york city is

That we’re actually incredibly rich in terms of the resources that we have and we believe that all communities are this way that you have educational institutions and businesses and all kinds of services and the main problem is making sure that people know that these exist and this is a special

Especially important for older people so we reached out to all of the cultural institutions in new york city which is several hundred more than 300 and we put together these cultural guides for seniors and basically they list accessibility options affordability options you know where when can you go for free or discounted

Tickets and also special programming for older people and these guides are available online they’re also available in print in certain locations and um they were an intervention in themselves because by having to fill this out cultural institutions who that weren’t who were not thinking about seniors began to think about them

We also surveyed new york city’s colleges and universities to find out what they offer for older people so this is not just courses which are incredibly important but can i walk onto your campus you know without a security card can i use your gym or your library or your computer lab

If i’m looking for some job training can i find that and that’s all been put together into a database which you can access at agefriendlycollege.org which we have been training older people around the city to use our fourth strategy engaging different professional networks and thinking about what they can do to help

So some examples of ways that we’ve done this the american institute for architects in new york city they have a new york chapter and they have started a design for aging committee where the architects come together monthly to hear different speakers and to meet to discuss this

Issue they just held a big event this past weekend charette called booming burrows where they had five different groups of experts across different disciplines work together to design solutions for housing and different kinds of housing models in new york so looking at single-family homes at walk-up buildings high-rise buildings

And then to present those findings and those creative solutions back to an audience and judging panel that came that day you can go to boomingboroughs.com to read more about that we worked with librarians across the city what we discovered was that branches of libraries each had their own special

Best practices and things that they were doing to better include older people but that they were not communicating with each other about those things so we’ve held several events to help them do that and also they’ve created a best practices guide for librarians in new york city we worked with attorneys in

Across new york state actually around an event that was not just focused on elder law which is a very specific profession but the idea that lawyers should be looking at all parts of law whether it’s housing whether it’s business law whether it’s i want to be an entrepreneur and i’m an

Older person and thinking about how they need to customize their services for older people we try to present this as an opportunity because it is an opportunity for these professions to make money to become better at what they do and not as just something that they should do to be socially responsible

Our fifth strategy is to help businesses better serve and attract older adults and this ties into what i was just saying what we heard from older people is that their main contacts in the community are often the local businesses that they frequent and that those businesses are incredibly important to their lives and

That older adults are often an untapped consumer base we have found that even the even in even people who do not have very much money they tend to spend their money locally and are very loyal customers and we try to communicate that to businesses throughout the city so we have guides

That we first went door-to-door with teams of people to a thousand businesses around the city and got people to sign on to be age friendly businesses but then since then we’ve actually worked with more than 30 merchants associations and chambers of commerce in new york city to help have training sessions and help

Spread these materials to build awareness around these issues we have a guide for making your business more sound friendly for older adults to looking at your signage and print materials and then just to give you some quick examples from specific businesses that you see here picture the the apple store

For example on the upper west side in manhattan there can appear very unnice friendly they have a line that goes out the door there’s not great seating it can be very intimidating to navigate and they’ve started to open in the morning before the store opens to have specific very basic computer

Classes that mostly attract older people and they offer coffee and some more comfortable chairs and brooklyn swirl this middle photo is of a frozen yogurt shop in brooklyn where they offer special deals for grandparents and grandchildren who come in together and fairway this a very popular supermarket in new york city they have

Personal shoppers for people who when you come in at no cost you can have someone take you around the store and reach things high and low on shelves and help you find what you need our sixth strategy is to use private sponsorship for the benefit of your community

So one great example of that in new york is we have these fabulous new bus shelters which is the photo of one here where you can actually see out if a bus is coming because you have this clear glass panel and also you have you know some shelter from the

Weather elements and a bench and much more clear signage and the advertisements on the bus shelter pay for that similarly we had a local neighborhood insurance company pay for chairs to give out to local businesses and we have new benches that are having the same thing in new york city

Our seventh strategy is to mobilize local communities to get additional and new kinds of resources involved in making neighborhoods better for older adults so um some of our local examples what what does that mean we have these new things called aging improvement districts and basically it’s um taking

Our age-friendly process that we did at a city level and bringing it to a neighborhood so asking older people in a neighborhood conducting community consultations what are the strengths of your neighborhood what are the challenges of your neighborhood and then bringing together an advisory group across sectors to think how do we

Address some of these issues we also work locally with specific cultural institutions on how they can become more age friendly and i’m going to speak in a moment about some fabulous things we’ve been doing around swimming pools an example that came out of our aging improvement districts we also have

Created these grocery guides at a neighborhood level where we have gone out and talked to the grocery stores about what they offer for older adults and again it’s an intervention in itself asking the stories about what they’re doing so this is one of my most favorite components of

Each friendly new york city is that when we went out and talked to older adults in east harlem they said to us we would not go swimming in a swimming pool that looked like this i haven’t been swimming in decades because there’s no way i’m going in that

Public pool when there’s kids doing cannonballs over my head and i’m going to slip on the floor and all kinds of other obstacles and issues but you know what maybe if there was a special time for older people i would go to that pool and so we shared that information at a big

Event where there were older people present and where we also had the parks commissioner there amongst other city leaders and the parks commissioner felt pressured and stood up and said next summer we’re going to have senior only swim hours in the morning before the pool pool opens for older

People and so that happened in east harlem in one community and then it was so successful that first summer that it’s now been replicated in 14 communities and now we also have wellness instructors that are leading activities at the pools in each of those places and we have

Just it’s just amazing older people that who said they just feel like entirely different people and they’ve never it’s a social experience it’s an experience to improve their health it’s one of the most exciting days for me is when i get to go back to the pool every summer and see this happen

So last summer we had fitness pre and post fitness tests and we found out that 80 percent of older adults who participated across the summer showed improvement in various physical fitness tests and we have those results if that’s helpful to anyone who’s looking to implement a similar program

Some of the guiding principles behind our work is that an aging population is an opportunity not a crisis that older adults are experts on their own lives and needs and that all sectors of the city or community that you’re working in must be engaged in order to create an age friendly community

An agent everything approach is key to planning and that both top down and bottom up stretch strategies are needed meaning solutions need to come both from policy makers and from those who are affected by the policies and that we need to use win-win solutions we need to think about what

Will benefit government what will save the money what will benefit business in order to make sure that they’re going to be want to be partners in this many of the challenges and many of the changes needed i’m sorry are low or no cost and that pace matters that people

Need to see results in order to believe in the process moving forward at the new york academy of medicine we provide technical assistance to communities and cities around the world who are interested in taking on these initiatives and so if you are interested in that or interested in learning more

About our work please feel free to contact me my email address is here on this slide you can also follow us on twitter at agefriendlynyc or view any of our tools and resources on our website thank you oh i was muted so sorry about that um

My name is jana lynette and i’m with aarp’s public policy institute and i’m going to switch gears slightly here first i want to give an applause out to both dory and margaret both portland and new york city are among the first u.s communities involved in the who age-friendly cities network

And thus they have a lot of experience in looking for solutions to make our communities more age friendly and they have a lot of great examples of of how we can do that so that was wonderful so anyway i want to um let’s see okay i’m gonna focus my presentation in at

Least the first part of it on talking about transportation services and margaret earlier presented this flower example from the who and others that have looked at the various domains or elements that comprise an age-friendly community now transportation as margaret mentioned is really part of the built environment but

It’s also part of the service environment and it’s an enabler it helps people engage in the social and civic environment of the community so one of the questions i get from planners and from others at the local level is what are good transportation solutions for older adults and how can we fund

Those solutions in our communities so i’m going to build upon a recent publication that i’ve done entitled weaving it together a tapestry of transportation funding for older adults and provide some examples of of how that is done and toward the end of my presentation i’m going to just give a

Quick synopsis of aarp’s involvement in the who age friendly communities effort so first off what is specialized transportation which is the focus of my presentation today well specialized transportation is transportation that’s provided either through volunteer drivers uh through discounted taxi programs transportation provided in vans or small

Buses but the focus is for those who have difficulty using the fixed route public transportation system either because of disability age related conditions or income constraints certainly the transportation element or domain as part of the age friendly communities program is much larger than specialized transportation it includes the fixed route system it

Includes things like complete streets that look at the design of the environment but for the purposes of my presentation today i want to focus just on the service side of transportation so why specialize transportation well first 21 of older adults do not drive that’s 8 million persons

Age 65 and older in our country and of the trips that these older adults take on public transportation 60 percent of their public transportation trips are on specialized transportation in terms of the numbers of older non-drivers even though women’s licensing rates have increased over the past decades and we’re now seeing men’s licensing

Rates slightly on the decline just because of the sheer size of the female cohort of this population older women outnumber older men as non-drivers three to one so it is a surface that is certainly important to both genders but in particular a service that many older women are taking advantage of

Now another thing to be aware of in communities is that disability rates at least between 1984 and 2004 have been on the decline at the same time rates of institutional use have been on the decline meaning that fewer older adults are moving into nursing homes as they age they’re

Staying put in their homes and communities which increases the demands for transportation service and other types of services that are provided by local government and others so again i’m going to walk through specialized transportation how it’s funded and then provide some case studies i’m pulling from my most recent publication weaving

It together a tapestry of transportation funding for older adults and if you go to the full publication what you’ll find is a very detailed summary of the federal funding programs for specialized transportation as well as very detailed case studies of seven providers from throughout the united states as well as detail about

Their funding sources from the federal state and local levels so just to give folks a good sense of what specialized transportation services look looks like let me start with the the types of institutional structures for specialized transportation providers the first category are traditional public transportation providers and the three

That we selected for our paper include three rural public transportation providers river cities public transit from south dakota people rides from iowa and pellivan transit from oklahoma all of these providers are providing general purpose demand response rural public transportation service meaning that anyone in the community can call up

For an advance reservation to get a trip from their home to a destination within the service area but in addition to this general purpose public transportation service they’re providing they’re also reaching out into the community to to piece together other ways to serve that community through primarily service contracts so for instance

River cities offers medical routes that takes a folks from the center of the state and pier to sioux falls in rapid city on the edges of the state it’s outside their service area but they feel that the rural population needs to access the medical facilities in the larger cities and

They’re providing that uh public transportation to get there river cities and pellivan are both providing deviated fixed employment route type of service meaning they have a route set up in a rural area but folks can call so that a bus deviates off that route and picks them up closer to home

And that is largely funded at least in the past through the fta job access reverse commute program to try to help link lower income employees to jobs elsewhere in the county also river cities and pellivan have reached out to the indian nations in their states and they are under contract to provide

Tribal transit service in the state and all three of these rural public transportation providers are also acting as medicaid non-emergency medical transportation providers so a second type of institutional structure of specialized transportation providers is that that is really um managed out of a human service agency or non-profit organization that specializes

In serving older adults and persons with disabilities in the community so the one case study we looked at that falls into this model is the seniors research center of colorado the denver area it as a rural public transportation provider it provides demand response door through door transportation the

Door through doors a little different and that the there’s actually a driver who will stop the vehicle and help a person from the vehicle into their home or at least to the door which provides an elevated level of service for folks who need that they also have a volunteer driver program

They are under contract with one of the local jurisdictions in their service area to run the complementary ada paratransit service that is required under the americans for for disabilities act for fixed route systems and they all also offer mobility management which is really personalized service to help link

An older adult or person with disability in the community to understand what the various options of transportation are that exist and help them identify which is the best option to meet their needs and finally the other category of institutional structure is kind of other each of these three takes a different

Form there’s darts in rural mississippi which functions very much as a traditional rural public transit transit provider but they’re housed out of a community health center community health centers provide medical care to the lowest to income individuals in the community who are uninsured and vulnerable and the reason darts

Was initiated out of this community health center is because they found they were not able to get their clients their clients weren’t able to get to health services and so they went to their state dot and asked about grants and were able to secure a federal uh transit grant for

Rural public transportation service so not only are they serving their own clients but they’re also performing as the general public transportation provider in the region now medical motor service is a non-profit organization and it is providing demand response public transit service it also has contracts with senior and adult space centers to

Provide transportation to and from centers for their clientele it has negotiated a contract with the local wegmans which is a supermarket where they’re providing a shuttle service from senior housing to the grocery store on you know one day a week they also offer mobility management and are a very large medicaid non-emergency medical

Transportation provider and then finally marine access mobility management center is housed in the count the marin transit the local fixed route transit provider and its focus is on meeting the needs of older adults persons with disabilities they provide mobility management service travel training teaching folks how to use the fixed route public

Transportation system they also offer under contract ada paratransit service for one for a neighboring jurisdiction as well as a taxi discount program and a volunteer driver program so what we learned from interviewing each of these providers is that what we see for those who are growing their service and

Really ex you know expanding the service and the number of people they’re able to serve in the community that it depends on a real tapestry of funding sources diversity of institutional types and it requires lots of innovation and energy from the providers themselves to reach out into the community and form partnerships

Now i will say that i need to differentiate between your typical perhaps traditional specialized transportation provider and its funding sources and those seven that we interviewed which i would say are exemplar systems here in the united states i think your traditional provider follows the model of receiving a federal

Grant in combination with some local general funds in order to meet the federal match requirements but for those systems that are following this mode i would say they’re not able to grow their services because for the most part federal funding has remained stagnant there was some increase in federal

Funding under map 21 the surface transportation law but by and large its public sector funding for specialized transportation services is fairly stagnant so it does require reaching out into the community and looking for other sources of funding now the just talking a little bit about the the key federal funding sources of course

There’s the federal transit administration the fifth section 5310 program is enhanced mobility of seniors and individuals with disabilities program under map 21 it was merged with the new freedom program it still remains under the title of 5310 there’s also fta’s fairly new veterans transportation community living initiative and that program is pulling

Funding from other fta grant programs into this program in order to provide financing for technology improvements for public transportation systems that that will help them coordinate their services across a region or across the state so river cities transit in south dakota and pellivan transit in oklahoma are both recipients of this grant funding

Outside of fta under the health and human services department there’s the administration for community living the administration on aging which administers the title 3b funding from the older americans act and there’s lots of flexibility for states and how they want to use that money for senior services

States are have chosen at least in 2010 to spend about 72 million dollars nationally on senior transportation and that funding is largely directed toward frail older adults those in most need of transportation services so it’s very common for an area agency on aging to get section 5310 money from fta to fund

The their capital their buses in combination with title 3b funding to actually operate the service and then finally the centers for medicare and medicaid service provides an enormous amount of money for specialized transportation in particular medical transportation through the medicaid non-emergency medical transportation program and that provides funding only for medicaid beneficiaries who

Are seeking to get to medical type of appointments so it’s not general purpose transportation whatsoever and then finally cms also has the 1915 c home and community based services waivers where states can choose to use this funding for transportation services which enable older adults to remain in their homes

And communities as opposed to moving into institutional settings so what we found in looking at the revenue sources from these seven providers is that each provider had at least 10 funding sources three showed 45 funding sources and one people rides of iowa 57 funding sources primarily through service contracts

So the local funding share it doesn’t just comprise local government share it also includes the private sector contributions toward the public transportation service so what do some of those contributions look like well for example pellevan has reached out to their local jiffy lube jiffy lube is changing the oil in

The pillavan vehicles at a discounted rate and televan is counting that discount as local match for federal transit administration grants fta provides a lot of flexibility in how you meet that local match and that’s one of the ways now sort of the opposite situation darts in mississippi has used an aura

Grant the american reinvestment and recovery recovery and reinvestment act grant to expand its maintenance facility so that it can change do maintenance on commercial vehicles and raise some additional revenue in the process of doing that so kind of functioning as a private sector entity in and of itself

So lots of uh creativity but it’s also very common for these private providers to reach out and form partnerships or have assigned service contracts to run a transportation service for various government agencies or non-profit organizations as well so just a little bit on state funding sources in total for the seven providers we

Interviewed state funding was very low at seven percent on across the board with some states iowa being higher at i think close to 25 of its total revenue sources there are two states that i want to draw attention to as offering a model for sort of a state commitment towards sustainable funding

For public transportation service first oklahoma has a state revolving fund that’s financed through the motor fuel fuel tax and in general fund and then through that they’re able to distribute transit grants and it’s based in part on a previous year’s mileage which really incentivizes transit providers to go out

And seek these service contracts and and provide more rides etc now iowa devotes one twentieth of the first four cents of the state sales tax collected on the sale of motor vehicles and motor vehicle accessories to support public transportation and also distributes those grants based on performance and i was actually only

One of six states with public transportation service in every county and they’re in part able to do this through an institutionalized sustainable funding source now just to draw quick attention to two providers marin access mobility management center back in 2010 voters in the county approved raising their local vehicle registration fees by 10

Through a referendum which isn’t too uncommon to have a referendum to raise money for transportation and becoming increasingly common even to raise money for public transportation but it’s the only county i’m aware of where a portion of that revenue 35 percent is dedicated to senior transportation and transportation for persons with disabilities by

Directing it to marine access mobility management center and then river city’s public transportation it has grown its ridership by a factor of 25 in the past 10 years back in 2001 it was providing only about 12 000 rides today it provides more than 300 000 rides to

People from its service area and within its peer service area which is um just around the capital city and the area surrounding the capital city very small area it’s able to provide 24 hour a day 365 day a year service which is almost unheard of for a rural public

Transportation provider now it’s aim it has been able to grow its services not from having incredible local or state support but really by reaching out to the surrounding counties to offer its services and bring them in under service contracts to to provide the service that that it offers

And has a number of other innovations as well so just to start wrapping up some tips for planners i realize that many of you are not public transportation providers directly but i do think understanding specialized transportation and understanding the need and relating it to the planning work that you’re doing is very important

So making sure that it’s integrated into your comprehensive plan or other transportation and transit plan elements reaching out to human service professionals again to understand the need and opportunities for coordination and partnerships now i’d like to turn my attention to talking just very briefly about aarp’s role in the age friendly communities network

Uh last year we became the u.s affiliate for who’s age friendly communities program and as part of that we’re helping who identify appropriate communities and facilitate their application to join the network there’s a lot of benefits for joining this network basically get to be part of a global network of participating communities

For states where aarp is involved you have access to our state office staff who are excellent at helping to convene various stakeholder groups in the community and really start a good quality discussion so these are the state offices we that are currently involved in promoting this network we have nine state offices

Including this district of columbia so and really if you’re interested in joining i would recommend that you begin by reaching out to this aarp state office in your state and see if they are interested in helping to facilitate your the the application process now even though we only have nine state offices

Officially involved at this point in time we have 36 state offices who are working on some aspect of livable communities and those would all be likely states to want to get involved in the age friendly communities program now even if the aarp state office is not resourced

To help the application along you can always reach out directly to who to move things forward so there’s no fee to join really what we’re looking for is a letter of commitment from the highest level of government saying we want to be part of this network and we

Want to commit to becoming more age friendly and with that commitment and certification then a community moves over the course of the next two years to establish a citizens advisory committee comprised a part of older adults in the community and to establish a robust and concrete plan of action that responds to the

Needs of older adults so i guess with that i will turn the mic back over to ramona who will help us facilitate the question and answer period hi jana um actually this is brittany again and i will go ahead and read through some of the questions we’ve been receiving

So as you can see the contact information for all of our speakers today is available right now up on the screen so go ahead and feel free to jot it down and i’m sure they will be happy to answer any emails you send them our first question comes in from laura

And she’s asking what is the age that one is considered old or an older person so why don’t i let me uh let me give that a first shot i think it’s really defined by the individual and we know that um none of us think we’re old we have a

Great anecdote at aarp where we did focus groups in rural alabama and the focus group facilitator asked the group had they thought about what would they would do if they had to hang up the car keys and this 92 year old woman said well when i get old i think i’ll rely on

The neighbor girls down the street to give me a ride but it was that concept that even at 92 we don’t necessarily consider ourselves old for the purpose of a lot of the research that i do just in part driven by the data sets that are available i

Typically look at 65 and older aarp really promotes membership for all people 50 and older but we don’t think that 50 and older is necessarily old so it’s really all over the map and and the final comment i would say that just as margaret pointed out early in her presentation age friendly communities

It’s not so much about being elder friendly but being friendly to persons of all ages we’re trying to make communities that work for everyone all right great thank you our next question comes in from ben portland and new york city provide great examples of what large cities with extensive resources can do what

Recommendations do you have for smaller communities or sparsely populated rural areas also what is the role of volunteer organizations relative to what municipal government does to provide services for seniors and to make the built environment more accessible i would love to take this one this is dory block in new york um

You know i think that while the solutions may be very different the process can still be the same in all different communities and we’ve advised you know many different communities and regions i was just out in kansas city missouri and advising their uh regional council on their age

Friendly initiative and the process of talking to the people in your community both older adults who and considering them to be experts on their own lives and needs and then the experts that do exist in your community and then taking that information and bringing it to the people who can

Create change to try to to try to create some of that change is the same process that would happen anywhere and so i think my first advice would be to first ask people what they need and what is working for them and then to try to bring the existing resources together to address

Some of those issues i don’t know if um any of the other presenters have thoughts on that i just have a resource i’d like to share with people um who are interested in rural and remote communities there was a symposium held at the university of manitoba this past fall

And the proceedings are out and it’s called making rural and remote communities in places more age-friendly why and how and if you just type www.age friendly you’ll get to where you need to be and i would just add the paper that i talked about today weaving it together it’s primarily focused on rural

Solutions at least for transportation sector all right great um our next question comes in from armando how can airport waiting lines at security checkpoints and at passport control booths be made more age friendly are any of these cities airport authorities looking into this uh this is jana let me try i love that

Question a it’s an excellent question and um is it the federal aviation administration that manages airport accessibility um whichever federal agency is responsible has recently instituted new guidelines for the security lines for persons 75 and older that they no longer have to remove their shoes or remove their jacket which

Somewhat helps make things more accessible there’s also an agency within that department that accepts basically complaints from the community where airports are not physically designed for accessibility and then they will investigate those types of things and i can look for that information here and see if i can’t get that out to people

Okay sorry margaret i was just gonna say that i think it is a really great question i’ve done a fair bit of international travel recently and even and domestic too and i i think it’s a huge problem and janet if you find the name of the complaint office we should probably all

Write to them i i will say it’s an office of two or three is all so it’s not very well resourced right it’s so far we haven’t uh we haven’t addressed the issue in portland and portland is supposedly considered one of the best airports in the us but it is it

It remains far from being age friendly or disability friendly in terms of lines and places to sit and all of that so a huge arena for improvement there the same thing in new york it’s a major issue and we haven’t done anything to really address it so i think

This as a reminder to move it up in our list of things to address okay our next question comes in from scott margaret could you repeat what you said was the failure in portland’s effort and then could the panel talk a little bit about their view of complete streets and

Whether and in what ways the complete street approach has been found lacking with regard to this part of our population uh i no i don’t think our effort was a failure i think that what we have that we have done is has been slow and that’s because we’ve been really working toward

Making policy changes um and getting those modified uh into our portland plan into the comprehensive plan and it’s a much slower process then than you might think in the long run i’m convinced it will pay off and will be well worth the effort but it’s it’s just been a little

Slower than maybe i would have expected or hoped for in terms of complete streets the comprehensive plan initially start and portland plan initially started talking about a 20-minute neighborhood and that concept was rejected by aging disability advocates because it placed this time frame on on getting around getting from the senate say

Getting from your home to the services that you need and so now there the movement has been toward this concept of the neighborhood hub without uh time limitations on how to get there obviously it takes longer if you walk if you roll you can get there pretty quickly sometimes public transportation

Obviously takes longer than driving so that concept didn’t work i would say this is jana that aarp is a strong promoter of complete streets policy adoption and implementation we have a number of state offices who have pushed this and have successfully gotten legislation passed at the state level as well as local

Complete streets policy and it says it works as well for older adults as explicit thought is put into the needs of older adults in the complete streets network i think dory gave examples of new york city safe routes to seniors program and by and large the improvements that

Are being made with seniors in mind benefit all other classifications of people in the community it’s it’s reducing pedestrian injuries for people of all ages so there’s a lot of synergy between what we designed for older adults and beneficial to the larger community but we do

Think there is a need in adopting those policies in an implementation to really think through the particular needs of older adults for example sidewalk design and materials choice as we age our eyesight tends to diminish and we tend to have reduced balance and if sidewalks have been bricked and they’re

Not well maintained and it’s not a perfectly smooth surface it can increase the the risk of falls which is a huge concern for older adults and something that is actually very they have the right to be concerned that hospitalizations from falls is like the number one reason that older adults

Go into the hospital hospital for non-otherwise medical reasons so it does require thinking through the the specific design treatments materials as well as making sure there are benches places to rest for older adults in the community in new york we partnered with aarp to support complete streets legislation and one of

The limitations of course is that in our legislation is that it’s only for new construction and new projects so of course the other limitation is that people are not mandated to create complete streets in streets where there’s no new project going on and you know if you live in a

Place where it’s uh more historic and there aren’t as many new projects then you’re not uh reaping the benefits and so we have to work on other ways to address those streets issues all right great i think we have time to take just one last quick question this

One goes out to miss block how are you involved in city environmental quality review on individual projects we are not involved in reviews on individual product projects at this point it would be something that we would love to have and we’ve also been working on health impact statements on all

Projects in new york city but that has yet to take hold what we are doing in new york is working to have age-friendly concepts built into our mayor’s management report which is basically a report that every department has to put in um on the progress of its work and we’re

Hoping that to create an age friendly layer to that to the twice yearly reports that have to come out from the city and that’s our the best that we’ve done in terms of integrating any kind of review into ongoing work but otherwise we haven’t gotten to that place yet okay

Well thank you all so much for giving a great presentation thank you ramona for organizing this presentation the private practice division i’m going to go through just a few reminders on how to log your cm credits for attending today’s event so i’m going to go ahead and

Switch it back over to my screen so if you missed this in the beginning i’ll just go back over how to log your cm credits and with this we’ll end our webcast thanks everyone okay and to log your steam credits for today’s event um go to www.planning.org

Cm and select today’s date which is friday may 24th and then select today’s webcast which is age friendly communities the event code is also listed on the screen that’s two three three zero six um this webcast is available for one and a half cm credits also we are recording today’s event so

It will be available and you can find this webcast on our youtube channel which is planning webcast and with this this concludes our session for today and i want to thank everyone again for attending

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Time: 1369422383
Date: 2013-05-24 23:36:23
Duration: 01:32:10

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