The sense of safety and security of older people is a widely acknowledged action domain for policy and practice in age-friendly cities. Despite an extensive body of knowledge on the matter, the theory is fragmented, and a classification is lacking. Therefore, this study investigated how older people …

The municipality of The Hague has been a member of the WHO's Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities since 2015. The municipality commissioned a survey to investigate how older citizens view the age-friendliness of their city. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among a diverse sample …

Begin 2020 heeft de gemeente Den Haag aan De Haagse Hogeschool (Lectoraat Urban Ageing) gevraagd om samen met Hulsebosch Advies en AFEdemy een integrale monitor te ontwikkelen en uit te voeren waarbij, door middel van kwalitatieve en kwantitatieve methoden, onderzoek wordt gedaan naar de stand van zaken …

Sinds 2015 is Den Haag als eerste Nederlandse gemeente lid van het Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie. Onderdeel van dit lidmaatschap is het periodiek evalueren van de seniorvriendelijkheid van de stad. Echter, nergens ter wereld bleek een instrument …

The World Health Organization engages cities and communities all over the world in becoming age-friendly. There is a need for assessing the age-friendliness of cities and communities by means of a transparently constructed and validated tool which measures the construct as a whole. The aim of this study …