Project Senior Friendly Communities

Live safely, Enjoy life, Stay involved

“Together we are creating Senior Friendly Communities in a cross-border setting to ensure that all senior citizens in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine can continue to enjoy participating in daily life.“

In September 2016, euPrevent started a three-year project called ‘Senior Friendly Communities’ (SFC). This project is a collaboration between various partners from the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR). The project focuses on active ageing in senior-friendly communities. This project focuses on mental health, with special attention to dementia and age-related depression.

Project partners

Participating municipalities

Objective

In this project Euroregional partners work together with 31 municipalities in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. The aim is to realise senior-friendly municipalities: municipalities that are care-friendly, carer-friendly and inclusion-friendly, so that senior citizens can continue to participate in a normal social life.

The partners in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine aim to realise this with the following activities:

promoting the continued physical and mental activity of the target group;
promoting the economic and social integration of the target group;
increasing the efficiency of care systems in the EMR;
promoting cross-generation solidarity.

Target groups

In this project the partners and municipalities focus specifically on these three target groups:

people who currently work as caregivers;
potential caregivers;
people who need care: elderly persons with late-life depression and/or senile dementia.

Customised work per municipality

The range offered will be customised per municipality to local requirements. There are 4 steps to the project:

Analysing the requirements of participating municipalities.
Selecting concrete activities per municipality, based on range of activities.
Implementing activities in the municipalities with the help of euPrevent and partners.
Drawing up a sustainability plan.

The Senior Friendly Communities project is carried out within the framework of Interreg V-A Euregio Meuse-Rhine and supported by the European Union and the European Regional Governance Authority Interreg V-A Euregio Meuse-Rhine Development, with EUR 983.167,50. The project also receives co-financing and the project partners pay their own contribution.