This World Health Organization (WHO) checklist is intended to be used by individuals and groups interested in making their city more age-friendly. For the checklist to be effective, older people must be involved as full partners.
In assessing a city’s strengths and deficiencies, older people will describe how the checklist of features matches their own experience of the city’s positive characteristics and barriers. They should play a role in suggesting changes and in implementing and monitoring improvements.
The checklist is a tool for a city’s self-assessment and a map for charting progress. More detailed checklists of age-friendly city features can be found in the WHO Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide.*
The areas the WHO checklist “Essential Features of Age-friendly Cities” focuses on:
- Outdoor spaces and buildings
- Transportation
- Housing
- Social participation
- Respect and social inclusion
- Civic participation and employment
- Communication and information
- Community and health services
The entire WHO Checklist of Essential Features of Age-friendly Cities can be found HERE.
*WHO’s Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide is found HERE.
