Collective Age-Friendly Impact
Age-friendly providers are doing transformational work in cities and communities, home and community-based services, universities, health systems and public health around the world. Our challenge? To reach across these initiatives to deliver collective impact.
Cross-Sector Collaboration
We are working with partners from across the Age-Friendly Ecosystem to elevate all things age-friendly and jumpstart the co-creation of shared strategies for program leaders, providers and stakeholders to plan and measure collective impact across settings.
That’s the promise of the ecosystem in all of our work.
It takes radical collaboration and intention to consider how we engage and collaborate across sectors to actively apply these concepts to benefit older adults in all settings.
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Building an Age-Friendly Ecosystem: Stakeholder Convenings
The Age-Friendly Institute, together with The John A. Hartford Foundation and International Longevity Centre, hosted a series of virtual convenings to combine insights for creating and promoting a unified language and measurement strategy to support a coordinated Age-Friendly Ecosystem.
The December, 2020 and March, 2021 events involved over forty recognized leaders who are working to advance age-friendly initiatives in public health, health systems, community, academia and employment.
Participating Organizations
- AARP
- Administration for Community Living (ACL)
- Brown University School of Public Health
- CVS
- Dublin City University
- Education Development Corporation
- George Washington University School of Nursing
- Grantmakers in Aging
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
- International Federation on Ageing
- International Longevity Centre-Brazil
- John A. Hartford Foundation
- Lasell Village
- Mass General Brigham
- Milken Institute
- Michigan Health Endowment Fund
- New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM)
- Florida Department of Health (Seminole County)
- New Jersey Department of Health
- Rush University Medical Center
- The SCAN Foundation
- Trust for America’s Health
- University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
- University of New South Wales (UNSW)
- University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
- World Health Organization (WHO)
Learn more about The John A. Hartford Foundation's support of the Age-Friendly Institute.
Compendium of Measures of an Age-Friendly Ecosystem
The goal of this project has been to collect, in one central place, the various measures being used to track outcomes of interest associated with age-friendly practice. At present, the compendium contains over 130 measures drawn from an exhaustive review of Age-Friendly practice frameworks and other sources. Looking ahead, we’ll continue to add measures of age-friendliness to this collection.
Thank you for your interest in this Compendium of Measures of an Age-Friendly Ecosystem.
We welcome your feedback and ideas to build upon this work, and look forward to hearing from you.
A short video from Jody Shue, Age-Friendly Faculty and former Executive Director of the Age-Friendly Institute, provides some tips for exploring the compendium.
Questions or feedback? Please contact us at mail@johnahartford.org