Thank you to everyone who came to this event. Here are the presentations from the day.

17 March 2016 ADCOSS Age friendly cities FORUM programme

Finding the Positive- Ageing and Age-Friendly Communities, Sarah Clark, Director of MSD’s Office for Seniors

Demographic Transformation: The Ageing of Auckland. Professor Paul Spoonley, Massey University.

Findings from LiLACS NZ. Dr Marama Muru-Lanning and Dr Ruth Teh, University of Auckland.

Legal framework to challenge ageism, limit elder abuse and accommodate the impact of super diversity on age issues. Mai Chen, Managing Partner Chen Palmer Public and Employment Law Specialists.

Beyond social inclusion: A vision for an Age-Driven Auckland. Professor John Raeburn, AUT.

Barriers and enablers to making communities liveable for older people. Associate Professor Stephen Neville, AUT.

Blind spots to Tipping points: Shifting political priorities to Age-friendly communities. Professor Shanthi Ameratunga, University of Auckland.
Find out more about ADCOSS’s Age Friendly work.

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).