Age-Friendly Communities: Implementation and Success in Rural Areas

Making Tracks Toward Becoming Age- and Dementia-Friendly

The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Report on Ageism

What Does an Age-Friendly Community Mean to You?

Recognizing the Need to Make Our Region More Age-Friendly

LifePath’s New Initiative Aims to Make Our Communities More Age-Friendly

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The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Report on Ageism

Barbara Bodzin, Executive Director

Age is one of the first things we notice about other people. Ageism arises when age is used to categorize and divide people in ways that lead to harm, disadvantages, and injustice and erodes solidarity across generations.

Ageism refers to stereotypes (how we think), prejudice (how we feel), and discrimination (how we

Age-friendlyStories

Recognizing the Need to Make Our Region More Age-Friendly

This October marks one year since the launch of LifePath’s Age- and Dementia-Friendly Communities Project in Franklin County and the North Quabbin. This initiative, which is based on the age-friendly community model created by the World Health Organization and administered in the United States by AARP, seeks to help make our communities more aware and

Nour Elkhattaby Strauch
Age-friendlyStories

LifePath’s New Initiative Aims to Make Our Communities More Age-Friendly

LifePath is embarking on an exciting new initiative with the aim of making communities in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region more age-friendly. Unlike many of our direct service programs, this project will target long term, policy and systems level change to both the built environment and the social environment. So, what does it