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8 Wednesday, October 25, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Town hall on age-friendly cities set By Sue Stafford Correspondent A free town hall on age- friendly cities will be held on Friday, November 3 at 2 p.m., in the Sisters Community Church auditorium, 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. Featuring Dr. Margaret Neal of Portland State University, who will dis- cuss the initiative to cre- ate age-friendly cities, the forum is co-sponsored by the Sisters Senior Alliance, Citizens4Community, and the Central Oregon Health Council. Dr. Neal will talk about how Portland was the only city in the United States chosen to participate in the original World Health Organization project involv- ing 33 cities in 22 countries. The objective of the program for WHO was to identify concrete indicators of an age- friendly city and to produce a guide to stimulate advocacy, community development, and policy change to make cities more age-friendly. For the participating cities the objective was to increase awareness of local needs, gaps and ideas for improve- ment in order to stimulate development of a more age- friendly city. With an increasing aged population, the most rap- idly growing group being 85 and up, older adults have enormous economic clout as consumers, stimulating new companies, products, ser- vices and technologies, and bringing tourism dollars to an area. Sisters — a town whose economy is tourism-based — is a logical location to become an age-friendly town. According to a num- ber of studies, the segment of adults age 55-plus has been shown to be the group that will increase the overall vol- ume of tourism the most. Not only the substantial num- bers, but also the increased financial means and time flexibility make the older- adult consumer segment attractive to tourism. Age-friendly cities offer a continuum of housing options and supportive ser- vices, reducing the need for elders to move and to prevent or postpone public and pri- vate expenditures for long- term institutional care. There are three impor- tant environments in an age- friendly community – built, service and social. The key elements within those envi- ronments include outdoor spaces and buildings, trans- portation, housing, commu- nication and information, community services, health services, respect and social inclusion, social participa- tion, civic participation and volunteering, and employ- ment and the economy. Dr. Neal will discuss all of these factors and more as she describes what makes a city age-friendly and why being age-friendly is a bonus to everyone who lives there. The Sisters Senior Alliance is investigat- ing whether their vision for coordinated services here in Sisters could be a short- or mid-term goal that could evolve into a longer- term effort to create an age-friendly community in Sisters. Dr. Neal is the Ph.D. director of the Institute on Aging and professor of Urban Studies in the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University. She teaches graduate courses in gerontology, survey design and data collection, and global aging. She led Portland’s par- ticipation in the 2006-2007 WHO Global Age-Friendly Cities project and has coor- dinated the Age-Friendly Portland and Multnomah County initiatives since then. An international speaker who is widely published on the topics of age-friendly communities, she works closely with the Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative and the State of Oregon. Girls soccer wraps up league play at home to Elmira and a 2-0 loss at Junction City (JC) two days later. 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