We are committed to enabling people to age positively in our City. So, in addition to developing the strategy around the eight domains of the World Health Organisation’s Age-Friendly Cities framework, we also wanted to make sure we were informed by the real-life experiences and priorities of our community.

Taking an innovative and collaborative approach, this action plan has been co-designed with community members who are over 55 years of age, as well as relevant local organisations and our employees. The contributions of all those involved have been truly valued and appreciated.

Starting with community conversations involving over 240 people, we formed a design team with interested and engaged older members of our community who, along with other stakeholders, told us the outcomes that were most important to them in these coming three years.

This action plan will help to ensure an age-friendly lens is applied to our work and provide a platform to engage collaboratively with our partners in prioritising the outcomes that our design team voted as most important.

For updates on progress, visit our website or contact Customer Service and speak with our Healthy Communities team.

We look forward to working with our community to promote positive and healthy ageing in the City of Greater Geelong.

Kaarina Phyland
Acting CEO
City of Greater Geelong