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| Planners and aging professionals collaborate for livable communities | | Author(s) | Stephanie Krone Firestone, Laura Keyes, Esther Greenhouse |
| Journal title | Working With Older People, vol 22, no 1, 2018 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2018 |
| Pages | pp 20-29 |
| Source | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi.wwop |
| Keywords | Urban and rural planning ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Architectural design ; Ageing process ; Professional workers ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | More than 250 ageing sector professionals and planners convened at a half-day Livable Communities for All Ages (LCA) on 24 March 2017, as part of the American Society on Aging's 2017 Aging in American Conference in collaboration with the American Planning Association. This paper shares findings from a learning intervention aimed at facilitating more regular and effective collaboration across the planning and ageing sectors, to advance LCA. It includes information from conversations, as well as a pre-event survey, post-event evaluations, and a six-month post-event follow-up survey. Results reveal that the participants increasingly recognised the value of cross-sector relationships to their work on LCA. Further, the success on current projects was highly attributed to the trust gained from a previous experience of ageing and planning professionals working together. Researchers relied on a purposive sample of respondents already registered to attend the Livable Communities Summit, who were likely to be somewhat knowledgeable about the topic of age-friendly planning. While not generaliseable to the broader professional fields of the ageing and planning sectors, the results inform the importance of cross-sector collaboration in the context of planning communities supportive of individuals across the life-span. Existing challenges to the local residents in a broad swathe of areas - including housing, transport, social isolation, purpose and more - are exacerbated in a rapidly ageing world that does not advance policies, practices and built environments to make communities more livable for residents of all ages. The intention is to contribute to the limited existing literature on collaboration between professionals in the planning and ageing fields, and to stimulate the increased and improved cross-sector relationships. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180323211 A |
| Classmark | RR: RH: YB3: BG: T7: QAJ: QK6: 7T |
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