Session D6
| Session D6 | ||
| Session title: | AAL’s role in creating age-friendly environments | |
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| Session chair: | Heidrun Mollenkopf, AGE Platform Europe | |
| Date and time: | 26 September 2012, 09:00 – 10:30 h | |
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| Room: | Saturn | |
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| Rationale AGE Platform Europe has committed under the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) to set up and moderate an EU virtual forum on Age-friendly environments (AFE) to link stakeholders (public authorities,NGOs, service providers, industry, researchers) interested in the promotion of AFE at local, regional, national and EU level. AGE and its partners call on the European Commission to launch an EU Covenant on Demographic Change that will seek to create the political framework to bring together local and regional authorities across the EU who want to find smart and innovative solutions to support active and healthy ageing and develop age-friendly environments. Creating an age-friendly EU by 2020 is the symbolic claim of a coalition of European organisations led by AGE for the European Year 2012. In today’s context of severe budget constraint, innovative and cost-efficient responses to demographic change are needed more than ever in order to deliver tangible results for citizens of all ages across the EU. This session will discuss the role of AAL technologies and design-for-all for the creation of age-friendly environments. It will seek to identify actions already taken and needed at all levels and in different areas to foster the autonomy, inclusion and active participation of all generations in society. It will be the opportunity to discuss plans of action and mobilize other actors to get engaged, aiming at a scale-up of existing solutions so that they do not remain isolated but they are linked with others. Attention will also be given to the role of user involvement in the creation of age-friendly environments. The session will include key invited speakers and participation from the audience. In particular, older adults will have a strong say in this session as they will challenge and react to the speakers’ interventions. Speakers
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