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Home MenuThe SCAN Foundation 2022 Innovation Award
The SCAN Foundation recognized the City for its alignment with the California Master Plan for Aging (MPA) Goals and Strategies and the ways the City demonstrates how local leaders use data to build upon existing efforts of age-friendly models to better meet older adults' needs. To see The SCAN Foundation’s video on The City of West Hollywood’s Aging in Place/Aging in Community Initiative, please click here.
Aging in Place/Aging in Community (AIP/AIC) is the City of West Hollywood’s Initiative to support the quality of life, health, and well-being of older adults. Building off of the City’s existing policies and programs, the vision for the 2016-2020 Strategic Plan (Plan) was to help the City of West Hollywood continue to evolve as a community where aging is embraced, and people can enjoy the community across the lifespan. Input from the community continues to be collected and analyzed as part of the on-going AIP/AIC Initiative's work to address older adult community members' needs beyond the Five-Year Strategic Plan. The Plan and the City's continued AIP/AIC efforts are aligned with the California Master Plan for Aging, correspond with framework endorsed by AARP's Network of Age-Friendly and Communities, and are based on the World Health Organization's Domains of Livability.
WEST HOLLYWOOD'S 10 DOMAINS OF LIVABILITY
The City’s 10 Domains of Livability serve as a strategic framework for supporting healthy aging for all members of the West Hollywood community. To learn more the domain focus areas, click below:
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Open Space and Buildings: An age-friendly community includes public places to gather indoors or out, and places where residents can get some fresh air, such as visiting parks, walking or just sitting on a bench. |
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Transportation: An age‐friendly community includes ways for older adults and non‐drivers to get where they need to go. |
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Respect and Inclusion: An age‐friendly community listens to, values, and includes its older community members. |
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Housing: An age‐friendly community has housing suitable for older adults. |
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Communications and Information: An age‐friendly community helps older adults access the information they need. |
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Civic Participation and Employment: An age‐friendly community encourages ways older adults can stay involved, such as through volunteer work or paid employment. |
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Health and Community Services: An age‐friendly community cares for its older adults and provides ways for them to care for themselves and others. |
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Social Participation: In an age‐friendly community, there are places for older adults to go for fun, enjoyable activities for them to do, and ways to stay socially connected. |
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Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness: An age-friendly community provides support and plans in advance to ensure the physical, financial, and technological safety of older adults. |
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Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias: In an age-friendly community, people with dementia and the people that care for them are empowered, supported, and fully included in society. |
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