The BC Age-friendly Communities Program offers valuable tools and resources to support communities as they get started, and continue, to work to become more age-friendly.

Articles:

• The importance of using an equity lens in Age-friendly Communities planning. 
• BC Healthy Communities newly administers the Age-friendly Communities Grant Program
• Healthy aging through an equity lens: Older adults experiencing homelessness
• How the eight domains of Age-friendly Communities impact social connectedness
• The role of neighbourhoods and residents in developing Age-friendly communities

Tools:

• BC Ministry of Health Age-friendly BC Toolkit to support communities working to be more Age-friendly

Resources:

• BC Healthy Communities: Age-friendly Communities Action Guide (PDF, 2MB)
• BC Healthy Communities On-demand Webinar: Creating Age-friendly Communities—Approaches for optimizing your assessment and planning process
• BC Healthy Communities: Applying an Equity Lens in Age-friendly Communities Planning (PDF, 249KB)
• First Nations Health Authority: BC Elders’ Guide (PDF)
• Age-Friendly Cities and Older Indigenous People: An Exploratory Study in Prince George, Canada
• Age-friendly Rural and Remote Communities: A Guide (PDF)
• Aging in Rural Communities and Small Towns (PDF)
• WHO Global Age-friendly Cities: A Guide (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Public Health Agency of Canada: Age-friendly Communities
• Age-Friendly Communities Evaluation Guide: Using Indicators to Measure Progress (PDF, 1.5KB)