Resources

Getting Started

The Manitoba Age-Friendly Initiative provides the Age Friendly Rural Remote Communities: A Guide to assist communities connect with seniors and identify barriers and concerns.

The guide recommends the following categories be examined as part of developing an age-friendly community:

• outdoor space and buildings
• transportation
• housing
• respect and social inclusion
• social participation
• communication and information
• civic participation and employment
• community support and health services

• Is your Community Age Friendly? (pdf)

• Is your Business Age Friendly? (pdf)

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Brochures:

• Age Friendly Manitoba - Creating communities committed to healthy, active aging
  (pdf 793 kb)

Guides:

• Age-Friendly Rural and Remote Communities: A Guide (pdf 684 kb)

• Global Age-Friendly Cities: A Guide (pdf 1,531 kb)

• Checklist of Essential Features of Age-friendly Cities (pdf 221 kb)

• Age-friendly Primary Health Care (PHC) Centres Toolkit (pdf 223)

• Is Your Community Age Friendly?

• Is your Business Age Friendly?

 

Age-Friendly Manitoba Newsletters:

• 2009 Spring

• 2008 Fall