Age-friendly Boston
We want to create an environment in which older adults can continue to lead healthy and productive lives in Boston.
The Age-Friendly Boston project works with the City’s public agencies, businesses, cultural, educational, and religious institutions, and community groups. We're challenging them to consider how they can change policy and practices to enhance the quality of life for our residents.
Our dementia-friendly work is embedded in our Age-Friendly action plan. You’ll see dementia-friendly items throughout the plan, signified by an asterisk.
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Initiatives
Action Plan at a glance
What does it mean to be an age-friendly city? It means a city that adapts its structures and services to be accessible and inclusive to residents of all ages and abilities. The Age-Friendly Boston Action Plan is our City’s blueprint to make Boston the best city to live and age in. The plan details 75 concrete action items the City will take to become even more age friendly.
Intersecting InitiativesThe Age-Friendly Action Plan is part of comprehensive planning efforts on the part of the City and will be integrated into the other processes. These plans are re-enforcing and reflecting each other where there is synergy.
Our Philosophy and ProcessThe age-friendly process has been a grassroots effort and a bottom-up approach. Our action items came directly out of the diverse voices from Boston’s neighborhoods, ages 50 and over. Since this is a three-year Action Plan, we have included action items that we are confident can be completed within this time with interdepartmental support and community partners. We will continue to refine and build on other ideas generated through this process.
The Action Plan touches on topics of significant impact, such as dementia, economic insecurity, and social isolation. Action items fall under the eight key domains listed above.
Now is the TimeThe Age-Friendly Action Plan challenges all of us — public agencies, private sectors, cultural institutions — to think differently about aging. We believe Boston is and will continue to be a city for all ages.
By the Numbers:- Five-year process to become Age-Friendly
- 30 listening sessions in four languages
- 23 neighborhoods engaged across the City
- 70 organizations participated
- 3,700 survey responses in six languages
- 4,000+ voices of older adults represented
- 75 action items developed
