Age-Friendly Saskatoon: A Vignette

This vignette about aging in Saskatoon is informed by the voices of hundreds of older adults who participated in the Saskatoon Council on Aging (SCOA) led Age-friendly Saskatoon Initiative (AFSI) between 2011 and 2016. Beginning in 2009, a group of older adults who were engaged volunteers with SCOA (authors included) became increasingly concerned about the lack of public policy direction focused on the unique needs of an aging population. SCOA, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting positive aging for all, decided to seek the opinions of older adults in Saskatoon. The goal was to promote a community conversation that would lead to changes in attitudes about aging and older adults and provide direction on how to create a more age-friendly city. In 2011 SCOA launched the AFSI. Based on the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Global Age-friendly Cities, this ambitious project involved three phases and took five years to complete. (2)

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