Welcome
The Age-Friendly Niagara Network is a group of local citizens, volunteers, community partners and municipal leaders who have joined together to learn about, take action on and champion age-friendly community principles to make Niagara a ‘community for all ages’. To learn more about the Age-Friendly Niagara Network visit About Us or Age-Friendly Action in Niagara.
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Niagara Aging Strategy and Action Plan Implementation Project (2017-2019) Evaluation Highlights
This two-page document summarizes both progress toward, and future opportunities for, implementing the Niagara Aging Strategy and Action Plan. The full evaluation report can be accessed here.
Federal Candidate Brief Prepared by the Age-Friendly Niagara Network
Targeted to candidates running in Niagara ridings for the October 2019 Federal Election, this two-page brief outlines the contributions older adults make to our community, the ways in which Niagara has already made progress towards becoming age-friendly, and what federal candidates can do to help champion this work.
AFNN 2018 Impact Placemat
This 2-page placemat summarizes milestones achieved by the Age-Friendly Niagara Network in 2018.
In The News
City of Thorold to honour seniors with flag
Mayor Ugulini along with limited representatives from the Age Friendly Committee and Age-Friendly Niagara Network will raise a flag at Thorold City Hall to recognize Seniors Month.
The benefits of walking and how to get the most out of it
There'll always be new fitness and workout trends to throw ourselves into (and debate the merits and efficiencies of), but it still might be worth learning how to walk before we run — or spin or box or circuit train — for lifelong health.
‘Human rights don’t have a best-before date’: COVID-19 lays bare rampant ageism
“Four more deaths, all elderly.” For the family of John Fox, already in mourning, those words cut like a knife in a fresh wound. The retired RCMP officer had died earlier that day of COVID-19 at the age of 73.
This project is made possible by a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.