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Participation of older people in practice Active80+ & Mobility Scouts 3 October 2017, Den Haag Laura Christ Older Womens Network -NL Partnership of five EU-countries: Austria, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands;

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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

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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+

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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

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How Engagement & acknowledgement

Active80+: Training for

professionals, volunteers to facilitate and support

lder people to realize

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

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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.

Community-building approach

‘Dialogue – exercise’, Amersfoort (NL), Active 80+, 2016

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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

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Raising awareness & information

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

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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

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Tools and agents of change

Older people carry
ut projects/

activities – based on their ideas and wishes - in the neighbourhood/ community

Generationenweg – FußgängerInnencheck, www.la21wien.at

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Activities of Mobility Scouts

Mobipartner in Hessen, DE / Foto-Projekt, Hanau (DE)

Mobility Scouts:

initiate activities & projects, raise

awareness, co-create and support;

Are contact person for older women

and men, organisations, enterprises and public authorities.

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