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2.8.1. Age-friendly environments

Bibliographic Records

Facts and Figures on Healthy Ageing and Long-term Care: Europe and North America

This publication informs the joint vision shared in countries of Europe and North America of age-attuned and age-friendly societies, where older people can maintain maximum health and functional capacity and enjoy improved well-being and living in dignity, free of discrimination

Effect of a 10-Week Traditional Dance Program on Static and Dynamic Balance Control in Elderly Adults

This preliminary study examined the effect of a 10-wk traditional Greek dance program on static and dynamic balance indices in healthy elderly adults. Twenty-six community-dwelling older adults were randomly assigned to either an intervention group who took supervised Greek traditional

Housing for old age through the platform of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA)

Results & Partners of this project include academia, central government, local authorities, regulatory bodies, start-ups, end-users,user representatives and SMEs from several sectors such as architecture, planning, IT technologies, transportation, health care, psychiatry, art therapy, business administration, medical tourism and service

Social versus Fiscal – The future of ‘Help at Home’ services in the Greek social care regime

Social care policies in Greece are promoted mainly by public bodies and community agencies, strongly influenced by the subsidiarity principle (complementary role of the state related to the social functions of family and kinship networks), typical of the Mediterranean social

Social cognition in adults: the role of cognitive control.

AIM:This study aimed at examining the direct and indirect, via cognitive control and emotion recognition, effects of advancing age on adults’ social cognition, and especially, on complex forms of it such as indirect speech, faux pas, and social mental verb

Towards an Age-Friendly Europe: The Covenant on Demographic Change

Promoting age-friendly environments is what the Covenant on Demographic Change aims at. The Covenant on Demographic Change gathers European public authorities at local, regional and national level, committed to developing and implementing an action plan on age-friendly environments based on