Following on from our Age Friendly City Forum in August 2015 ADCOSS made a presentation to the Auckland Community Development Committee at their October 2015 meeting. The submission was oral but here is a copy of the hand out we left with them.
We then followed this up with by meeting with Mayor Len Brown on 15 December 2015 to progress his awareness of the Seniors Advisory Panel’s stated priority to progress Auckland applying to become a WHO Age-friendly City.
Our latest forum was on 17 March 2016. See all the presentations. Read the discussion paper.
Find out more about WHO’s October 2015 World Report on Ageing and Health (diverse information is available on this WHO webpage http://www.who.int/ageing/events/world-report-2015-launch/en/ including a YouTube video interview with Dr John Beard at the bottom of the page).