By John G. Kelly B.Com., LL.B., M.Sc. (international relations) M.A. (Jud.Admin) F.CIS
Age Friendly Community Certification Advisory
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Age Friendly Community Project Consultancy
Age Friendly
Affordable 
Active 
Attractive Amenities
"A"+
​ Intergenerational Active Communities
You need to ensure that this "A+" category of intergenerational active communities is at the top of your search list when looking to relocate to your ideal "best fit" community that will enable you to "live life to the fullest". John is your "A+" community consultant.

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What is an “Age Friendly Active Community?
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In 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a group of towns and cities from around the globe, including several from Canada to develop solutions to the following emerging social issues. “Population aging and urbanization are two global trends that together comprise two major forces shaping the 21st century”. The outcome of the meeting was publication of a guide whose purpose “is to engage cities to become more age-friendly so as to tap the potential that older people represent for humanity” The guide developed an architecture for livable cities under the label of the Global Age Friendly Cities Project, the result of which led to publication of the Global Age-friendly Cities: A Guide. The guide was intended to provide a set of guidelines that were labeled as community domains for active aging. “Active aging” is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security to enhance quality of life as people age”

​The Age Friendly Community Domains
The architecture for age friendly cities was encompassed in a framework of eight universal age-friendly domains;

1. Outdoor spaces and buildings,
2. transportation,
3. housing,
4. social participation,
5. respect and social inclusion,
6. civic participation and employment,
7. communication and
8. Information and community support and health services

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​The guide was emphatic in defining active aging as a life-long process and not restricted to the elderly population. Age friendly communities are intergenerational and inclusive.

In 2007, the Canadian government, in recognition of the need to support Age friendly community development in small towns and villages, created a joint Federal, Provincial, Territorial Age-Friendly Rural and Remote Communities Initiative. Provinces established age friendly certification programs that provided towns with an architecture and operational framework to attaining age friendly recognition. Most towns do not have the internal resource capability to independently develop an age friendly certification program. John Kelly has an extensive professional background in pro-actively managing committees required to function in compliance with the public policy requirements of governmental authorities.

• His text Meaningful Memories – Rekindling Past Learning Experiences to Live Life to the Fullest - recounts his experiences in participating in active community living in an internationally acclaimed vibrant intergenerational urban neighbourhood, a model age friendly 55+ community in a town setting and active retirement community resorts in Florida and Arizona.
• His combined professional expertise and participation in age friendly intergenerational active community living has enabled him to embark on an “encore career”.
• John has taken on the mission to act as a strategic advisor to communities wanting to obtain age friendly certification in compliance with governmental guidelines.
• For communities with age friendly certification wanting to take the next step and develop age friendly projects to add value to their community to make it more marketable to prospective purchasers wanting to move into affordable attractive east coast communities  John will utilize his expertise to  advise on the project architecture and operational framework.
• Age friendly community proponents  are encouraged to follow John Kelly’s thought leader blogs that can be accessed through this website for guidance and direction.