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What is the Age Friendly Programme?
Over the next 30 years, the number of people in Ireland over the age of 55 will double and the number over 80 will quadruple. Ireland is now in an ideal position to prepare for successful population ageing. Ireland’s Age Friendly Cities and Counties Programme is a national programme being rolled out across the country to ensure that our counties, cities and towns are age friendly and meet the needs of older people.
It is adapted from the World Health Organisation’s Global Age Friendly Cities and Communities Programme, which says that,
“In practical terms, an Age Friendly City adapts its structures and services to be accessible to and inclusive of older people with varying needs and capacities.
Dublin is the first capital city in the world to have adopted a city wide approach to becoming age friendly.
City Wide Alliance
This is a high-level, overarching strategic partnership that brings together representatives of older people in the city with the public, as well as voluntary, community, academic and private sectors. The City Wide Alliance oversees the realisation of the goals and actions of the strategy and supports the work of the local Area Alliances.
Area Alliances
This involves key local stakeholders reflecting sectors represented in the City Alliance. The development and implementation of the Age Friendly Area Section Plans are the responsibility of the Local Area Alliances. Each Area Alliance will be supported by an Older Persons' Council, a Service Providers' Forum and an Age Friendly Business Forum, all representing local interests.
Older People’s Council (OPC)
This is a representative group of older people, established by local authorities as part of the development of the Age Friendly City/County Programme. The group of older people identify priority areas of need, raise issues of importance and inform and influence the decision-making process of the City or County Age Friendly initiatives. Representatives of OPC participate, alongside representatives of the relevant member agencies, on the Age Friendly City/County Alliance.
In addition to taking on specific commitments related to the implementation of the Age Friendly City/County strategies, the Older People’s Council also provides a citizen of service user perspective in monitoring the implementation of these strategies. The Older People’s Councils are, over time, intended to be representative of the diversity of the older population in the city and county, linked to local older people’s groups and supportive of the participation of the most marginalised.
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For administrative purposes, Dublin City Council is divided into five areas. An Older Persons' Council and Age Friendly Alliance have been set up in each of these areas.
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