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1/ TY all for an engaging session on age-friendly wellbeing economies on healthy ageing and mental health over the life-course

@UNDecadeAgeing we are committed to empowering older persons and building together to create age-friendly environment for all #Health4Wellbeing

2/ TY @AgefriendlyMCR @MUARG1 for a powerful keynote. Indeed ageing is something to celebrate 🎉 Age-friendly model provide is an effective way to harness the potential of population ageing by involving:
✅older persons
✅multiple sectors
to create person-centered support for all

3/ TY Emma Matsson for raising the important of networks like the Nordic Network of #AgeFriendly cities and municipalities. Having Int’l & National networks to exchange practices & coordinate activities are extremely valuable.

4/ TY Thorhildur Egilsdóttir @Thorinity for providing examples on how to engage older persons with the elder council to develop age-friendly initiatives in the City of Reykjavik

5/ TY @LiliannaRizzo from @AgeFriendlyIrl for sharing the Irish experience of national networks of Age-friendly initiatives. Love what u said about data - “best data comes from the experiences of older persons themselves”

6/ TY @HeaslipVanessa summarizing so eloquently the 5️⃣ key messages of the session:
1️⃣ change mindset for seeing older population from deficit to asset
2️⃣ multisectoral work
3️⃣ nothing about us without us
4️⃣ leadership is the 🔑
5️⃣ more platform to learn from each other

7/ Thank YOU to @LizMestheneos @AGE_PlatformEU our moderator for engaging our speakers and audience on age-friendly environment for all

8/ TY @FredLamGodwin for engaging our participants to live discussion on #AgeFriendly environments

8/ Stay tune for all the interviews and recording of this session on “Age-friendly wellbeing economies to support healthy ageing and mental health over the life-course”
#Health4Wellbeing