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GenPhilly
— a strategy for improving the sustainability of aging in community initiatives | | Author(s) | Kate Clark |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Social Policy, vol 26, nos 1-2, January-June 2014 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, January-June 2014 |
| Pages | pp 197-211 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Urban areas ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Amenities ; Urban and rural planning ; Projects ; Multi disciplinary ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | GenPhilly is an innovative, replicable model that was developed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to inspire and engage emerging leaders from a variety of disciplines, to promote and sustain an aging-in-community agenda. Administrative support is provided by the Area Agency on Aging, Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, yet it was designed by its members to be peer-led. In this way, young people in their 20s and 30s can capitalise on popular culture to create unique professional development opportunities, and to get younger generations thinking about the type of city in which they themselves want to get older. The group has benefited the field of ageing by: building awareness of ageing services in the wider community; facilitating cross-disciplinary learning and innovation around ageing issues; stressing the competitive advantage for emerging leaders from all fields to know about ageing issues; strengthening the ageing network workforce; breaking down stereotypes about working with older adults; and introducing expertise from outside the ageing networks to benefit older people. Encouraging the development of similar groups will not only benefit the field of ageing, but will also assist the next generation of leaders in many fields to plan better for their communities and for themselves. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150529224 A |
| Classmark | RH: RK: TOB: R8: RR: 3E: 3DM: 7T |
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