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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.
On Tuesday, October
17, the Outlaws lost in a
tight game against Elmira.
Prior to the contest, seniors
Ronji Yost
Correspondent
The Lady Outlaws worked
hard and improved all sea-
son, but struggled to get
wins in the scorebook. This
past week, Sisters dropped
both their games; a 2-1 loss
See SOCCER on page 19
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Seniors Jackie May (No. 14) and Rylee Weber (No. 1) with teammates in
their last game as Outlaws Soccer players.
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