ONTARIO SENIORS’ SECRETARIAT

AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY PLANNING

GRANT

September 17, 2015Angela Andrews, Health Promoter, HKPR District Health Unit

Aging Well Committee

• Finding the Right Fit: Age-Friendly Community Planning Guide launched in August 2013

• MAREP – Online Toolkit

• Seniors Secretariat – Age-Friendly Environmental Scan

• Provincial and National Conferences

• Various Online Presentations & Webinars

• Haliburton Aging Well Report (2010)

• LDCP Falls Prevention Project (2014/2015)

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What is an Age-Friendly Community?

• a place where people of all ages and abilities can interact, participate and contribute

• a great place to live and visit• a healthy place to live, work, learn and play

Which leads to……more visitors…healthier people…economic vitality…cleaner environment

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8 Essential Dimensions of AFCs

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A community where policies, services, settings and structures support and enable people to age actively by:• Recognizing their wide range of capacities, talents and gifts• Responding to their needs and preferences• Respecting their decisions and lifestyle choices • Protecting those most vulnerable• Promoting their inclusion in, and contribution to, all areas of

community life (accessibility)

What is an Age-Friendly Community?

Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers Responsible for Seniors. (2007). Age-Friendly Rural and Remote Communities: A Guide. p. 5.

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AFC Projects Across Ontario

Eastern Region• City of Kawartha Lakes – Age-Friendly communities• Haliburton County – Aging Well in Haliburton County• Kingston – Age-Friendly Kingston• Ottawa – Age-Friendly Ottawa Action Plan and

Municipal Older Adult Plan• Peterborough and Peterborough County – Are We an

Age-Friendly Community?• Sharbot Lake Region – Sharbot Lake Seniors Fitness

Program

Northern Region• Dryden – Age-Friendly Network: Connecting Our

Seniors• Sault Ste. Marie – Age-Friendly Sault Ste. Marie• Sudbury – Friendly to Seniors Sudbury• Thunder Bay – Centre for Education and Research on

Aging and Health (CERAH) – Age-Friendly Thunder Bay

Central Region• Burlington – Burlington Age-Friendly Seniors Council

(BAFSC)• Town of Collingwood – Urban Design Manual and

Active Transportation Plan• Durham Region – Municipal Planning• Halton Region – Elder Services Advisory Committee –

Age-Friendly Communities Project• Hamilton – A City for All Ages• Hamilton – Hospital Elder Life Program• City of Mississauga – Older Adult Plan• Richmond Hill: York Central Hospital – The Hospital

Elder Program (HELP)• City of Toronto – Seniors Strategy

Western Region• Brantford and Brant County – Master Aging Plan• Cambridge – Age-Friendly Cambridge• Erie St. Clair – Community Agency Access Tool• Grey Bruce – Grey Bruce Falls Prevention and

Intervention Program• London – Age-Friendly London• Niagara Region – Age-Friendly Communities Initiative• Petrolia – Boomers Extra Seniors Club and Age-

Friendly Gazebo• Port Colborne – Seniors Advisory Committee• Waterloo – Age-Friendly Waterloo• City of Welland, Niagara – Age-Friendly Initiative• Windsor – Age-Friendly Windsor

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Age-Friendly and The Ontario Public Health

Standards Accountability Agreement :• Fall-related emergency visits in older adults aged 65+ (rate per 100,000 per yr) Our baseline was 6775 per 100,000, and our target is to maintain or improve that rate.

• Ontario Public Health Units are required to address the prevention of injuries, including a requirement to “...influence the development and implementation of healthy policies and programs and the creation or enhancement of safe and supportive environments that address falls across the lifespan.”

• Age Friendly work is one project that helps us achieve the falls prevention outcome indicator. We look at falls as not one piece but many pieces from a seniors health and aging perspective.

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Role of the Local Government

• Adopting an age-friendly approach means that a community will consider the needs of seniors in the development and implementation of local policies, programs and services.

• Local governments play an important role in building accessible, healthy, active and prosperous communities.

• A municipality’s services, programs, facilities, policies and planning processes help ensure residents have opportunities to make healthy choices where they live, work, learn, and play.

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Community Collaboration• An age-friendly approach does not require significant investment of new

resources – small and incremental changes can make a big difference.

• Ultimately, when a community adopts an age-friendly approach to community planning, the whole community benefits.

• Collaboration is important. Creating a healthy community involves many organizations, institutions, governments and individuals.

No single group can do it alone, it’s a shared responsibility.

Healthy, Active Communities Roundtable (2008)

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Why Haliburton?

• The County’s population is much older than Ontario’s population 1, 2

• Significant increases in older adults in the County over the next 20 years 2

• Most of the future population growth is anticipated among older age groups, with the most dramatic increases over the next 20 years among those 65 years and older: 2

• 65-74 is projected to increase by 83.1%

• 75+ projected to increase by 77.8%

1 HKPRD Health Unit (2006); 2 MoF (2013)

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Overview of Grant

• The new Age-Friendly Community Planning Grant will offer a total of up to $1.5 million over two years.

• Funding will support local governments and community organizations to undertake strategic planning with a focus on seniors, which will lead to the development of local aging plans.

• Grants will be available for amounts up to $25,000 for small communities (populations under 20,000 residents)

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Key Project Requirements

• Projects must include the involvement of seniors or organizations that represent seniors to ensure that planning activities include the views of seniors in the community.

• The local government must support both the grant application and more broadly, endorse the activities that lead to the development, implementation and evaluation of their local age-friendly community action plan.

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Project Plan

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Acitivies Actions Apr. May June Jul. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June Jul. Aug. Sept.Initiate 1.1 Convene AFC Working Group

1.2 Hire Project Coordinator

Project Planning 2.1 Identification of Consultation Objectives, Approach, and Key Activities

2.2 Document Review of Previous Aging-Well Report Findings and related materials

2.3 Development of Draft of Priority Areas

2.4 Development of Stakeholder Engagement Strategy

2.5 Development of Communication Strategy

2.6 Development of Consultation Strategy (World Café)

2.7 Establish Project Schedule and Timelines

Implementation 3.1 World Café - 4 Sessions/~10 persons (co-design of Master Plan priority areas)

Findings 4.1 Rolling up findings from consultation to bring back to WG

4.2 Participation in Official County Planning Review Process

Develop Haliburton Master Plan

5.1 Draft Strategic Directions for Master Plan

5.2 Establish Activities, Milestones, Measures/Timelines, Targets

5.3 Aligning to individual organization strategic priorities/plans (Identified Stakeholders)

Approval & Commitment to Master Plan

6.1 Working Group

6.2 Identified Stakeholders

6.3 Haliburton County Council

WHO AFC Designation Application

7.1 Application Written

Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3

2015 2016

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Age-Friendly Master Plan Project

Purpose:The purpose of this project is to produce an Age-Friendly Master Plan toguide the development of services and/or infrastructure for our expandingolder adult population in Haliburton County.

This comprehensive guide will assist with collaborative planning for futureneeds, providing direction for multiple organizations, agencies and non-profitsectors who work with older adults.

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Age-Friendly Master Plan Project

The proposed project will follow the age-friendly community planningframework developed by the WHO, which includes a four-stage process of: (1) defining local principles(2) developing a custom needs assessment (3) developing an action plan(4) implementing and evaluating the action plan.

We will build on the previous age-friendly communities planning work completed in2009/2010. The Age-Friendly Master Plan will be a 3-year, multi-agency/stakeholder,comprehensive road map to address and improve upon the needs and priorities ofseniors aging in Haliburton County.

Development, implementation, and measured success of the Age-Friendly Master Planwill culminate in an application to the WHO Global Network of Age-Friendly CitiesCommunities.

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Age-Friendly Master Plan Project

Objectives1.To build capacity among community members, decision makers and stakeholders to take ownership and lead the Age-Friendly Master Plan development process for Haliburton County.2. To review the baseline data from the Aging Well survey conducted in 2010with attention to previously identified priority areas. 3. Identify current priority areas through a community consultation processinvolving key stakeholders, decision makers, older adults and communityplanners.4. Integrate age-friendly concepts and priorities into strategic plans anddecision making among the private, public and community sectors5. To create short term and long term goals for achieving the vision of an AgeFriendly Haliburton. 6. Development of a county-wide Age-Friendly Master Plan

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Contact Information:

Angela AndrewsHealth Promoter, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention DepartmentHKPR District Health Unitaandrews@hkpr.on.ca | P: 705-457-1391 x 3239

Thank You

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