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As we step into a new year, we want to take a moment to thank you for being part of our Age-Friendly community. Your engagement, curiosity, and commitment to connect communities inspire everything we do. This year, we’re excited to continue exploring ideas, sharing knowledge, and creating spaces that center dignity, equity, and belonging at…

As we wrap up the year, we want to thank you for your continued support and engagement with us and our project. Wishing you a season filled with rest, connection, and joy-and a new year full of possibility, progress, and shared purpose!

This week, in Chapter 6 our authors- Donna Baines and Renate Ysseldyk look at aging as both a site of possibility and struggle, particularly in urban spaces. This chapter challenges the reader to think more critically about how cities, policies, and social care systems shape who gets to age well and who doesn’t. The chapter reminds…

In Chapter 5, Counting Care Workers: When the “Muddle” is the Message, authors Tamara Daly, Sara Charlesworth, Frode F. Jacobsen, and Katherine Laxer look at what we actually know about long-term care workers, the people who make care for older adults possible. Their big question: Do policymakers have the data they need to plan for…

This week we are covering Chapter 4,  Who gets counted? Ageing statistics and advancing age equity, authored by Madeline McCoy and Renate Ysseldyk. Our authors this week take on a very interesting topic- Who is actually included in data sets and who isn’t? When it comes to older adults, much research relies heavily on national and international…