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Participation of older people in practice Active80+ & Mobility Scouts 3 October 2017, Den Haag Laura Christ Older Women’s Network -NL

 Partnership of five EU-countries: Austria, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands;  Funding: EU Erasmus+ programme;  Active80+: valuing and valorizing the potential, knowledge & skills of people 80+, 2014-2016;  Mobility Scouts: engaging older people in creating age-friendly environments, 2016-2018.  Associate partner: AGE Platform EU Young & Old meet – Dialogue, Barneveld (NL), Active80+

Why Active80+ & Mobility Scouts?  Older people’s capacities, strength and abilities to be of meaning to the community and economy are underestimated; they should be acknowledged and valued;  New perspectives on ageing, tools and agents of change are needed. E-Noi?, meeting to discuss policies on older people, Italy E noi?Active80+, Italy, 2016

Engagement & acknowledgement  Active80+: Training for professionals, volunteers to facilitate and support older people to realize How their ideas in the community;  Older people carry out projects/ activities - based on their ideas and wishes - in the neighbourhood/ community Active80+ National event, Lithuania, 2017

Community-building approach  Method ‘Joint Strength’ (Samenkracht)  Empowerment of people 80+ longing to become engaged in meaningful activities;  Dialogue about community issues;  Mutual advise, creative problem solving;  Shared responsibility and collaboration between professionals and inhabitants/residents. ‘Dialogue – exercise’, Amersfoort (NL), Active 80+, 2016

Bottom-up approach & free publicity Fortnightly walk-in living house/coffee meetings to raise awareness about age-friendly city, Zutphen 2017 Raising awareness in local/regional newspapers

Raising awareness & information Meeting to raise awareness and discuss the concept ‘age-friendly city’, Zutphen, ‘t Volkshuis, 29 August 2017 Who owns the city?

Training Mobility Scouts  Theory and practice: first assess the situation, then develop a plan and thirdly monitor the implementation. This is what we call co-design, co-production.  Older people and stakeholders work together, facilitate a better understanding of each other Mobility Scouts Netherlands and Germany

Tools and agents of change  Older people carry out projects/ activities – based on their ideas and wishes - in the neighbourhood/ community Generationenweg – FußgängerInnencheck, www.la21wien.at

Activities of Mobility Scouts Mobility Scouts:  initiate activities & projects, raise awareness, co-create and support;  Are contact person for older women and men, organisations, enterprises and public authorities. Mobipartner in Hessen, DE / Foto-Projekt, Hanau (DE)

Thank you! Laura Christ laura.christ@xs4all.nl www.act-80plus.eu www.mobility-scouts.eu www.leeftijdsvriendelijkestad.nl