tailieunhanh - Global Age-friendly Cities: A Guide

During the development of the GCAP, many people gave their time and ideas. More than 35,000 people from around the world participated in the process online, through social media, and in face-to-face workshops or events. More than 9,500 people, most of whom lived in Vancouver, actively added their ideas, insights, and feedback to help determine the best path to achieve this plan. Participants oten asked how they could begin to take these ideas and make them real in their own backyards, in their neighbourhoods, and in their businesses. With over 60 City staf, more than 120 organizations, and. | Global Age-friendly Cities A Guide World Health Organization AGEING AND LIFE COURSE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH WHO Global Age-friendly Cities A Guide World Health Organization WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Global age-friendly cities a guide. - statistics. . health. planning. characteristics. of life. participation. planning. Health Organization. ISBN 978 92 4 154730 7 NLM classification WT 31 World Health Organization 2007 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization can be obtained from WHO Press World Health Organization 20 Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland tel. 41 22 791 3264 fax 41 22 791 4857 e-mail bookorders@ . Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications - whether for sale or for noncommercial distribution - should be addressed to WHO Press at the above address fax 41 22 791 4806 e-mail permissions@ . The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country territory city or area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the World Health Organization in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. Errors and omissions excepted the names of proprietary products are distinguished by initial capital letters. All reasonable precautions have been taken by the World Health Organization to verify the information contained in this publication. However the published material is being distributed without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied. The