Welcome to Day 3 of Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Week!

Age-Friendly Communities and Contexts of Care

Today's theme is Age-Friendly Communities and Contexts of Care and we will be focusing on resources that share information about the importance of environments that are designed for older people. The various challenges older people face are often increased by spaces that are not designed with "aging in mind".

We will begin with a welcome message from Dr. Enrique Vega Garcia, the Unit Chief of Healthy Life Course at the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization. 

Please enjoy today's content and share it with your peers and colleagues to help everyone learn more about this important topic of older adult mental health. 

Today's Resources

• Age-Friendly Architecture- Enjoy this article titled Building Life Cycles: Rethinking the Architecture of Aging
• Design for Aging- Enjoy this article titled Home at Last 
• World Health Organization video- Collaboration for Age-Friendly Communities

Up-Coming Event Announcement

• Join Dr. Tedros, Director-General, WHO and Mr. Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Monday 9 October at 12:30 CEST (See this event in your local time) for the launch of the WHO/OHCHR joint publication entitled "Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice”. Click here to see the full event flyer. The event will be moderated by Mr. Daniel Bergner, a highly esteemed writer for The New York Times Magazine. Register here via Zoom.