CONNECT WITH US! Website: AgeFriendlySarasota.org Phone: AGE (0243) Facebook: Facebook.com/AgeFriendlySarasota Age-Friendly Sarasota APA Floridas Public Policy Workshop February 3, 2016 agefriendlysarasota.org An Initiative of In Partnership with #AgeFriendly Comprehensive Planning #AgeFriendly AFC definition Proposed Definition: An age-friendly community optimizes social and physical environments that enable people to live active, safe and meaningful lives and to contribute across the life course. The intent of an age-friendly community is to consider age-inclusiveness in all programmatic and policy plans. St. Louis Park, MN: Embraces the vision of a community so special that people will consciously choose to make St. Louis Park their lifelong home. Taglines/ Essence: Community for All Ages | Great Place to Grow Up and Grow Old | Lifelong Community #AgeFriendly Outdoor Spaces & Buildings #AgeFriendly Transportation #AgeFriendly Housing #AgeFriendly Municipal Resolution for Voluntary Universal Design and Visitability Program for Residential Housing Age-Friendly Promising Practice Brief: Housing #AgeFriendly Thank you Planners for all you do! Excellent Resource: Winnick, B.H. & Jaffe, M. (2015). Planning Aging-Supportive Communities. PAS Report 579. American Planning Association. Contact information: