Regina is the capital of Saskatchewan. It is the 16th largest city in Canada with a population of 230,725 distributed over: visible minority groups (20%), aboriginal groups (10%) and European groups (70%). There are 10 wards and 29 defined neighbourhoods within the city. The city covers an area of 118.4 square kilometers and is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Sherwood. There are ten bedroom communities accessing some city services. Regina provides major health services for the southern portion of the province.
The Saskatchewan Government, represented by The Hon. Everett Hindley, Minister of Seniors, recognized Regina as an Age-Friendly Community at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building on November 22, 2022.
The community had completed four Age-Friendly milestones: establishing an Age-Friendly Committee, achieving local government support, assessing the community, and implementing an action plan to achieve this honour.
Age-Friendly Regina acknowledges that we are on traditional lands of the Treaty 4 Territory, the original lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.
Age-Friendly Regina is composed of two committees, the Steering Committee and the Stakeholders. The Stakeholders are listed in the “Community Organizations Supporting the Age-Friendly Committee” tab.
The Steering Committee has the authority to:
Our partnership with the University of Regina Student Volunteer Centre has allowed us to welcome Huong Nguyen who has joined our committee to bring a younger person’s viewpoint to our work.
Age-Friendly Regina Steering Committee:
The Stakeholders have the authority to:
Age-Friendly Regina Stakeholders:
The Age-Friendly Regina Committee was formed in 2018.
Regina City Council, at its meeting held on April 29, 2021 considered the report and unanimously adopted the following resolution that City Council: “Endorse the request of the Age-Friendly Regina Committee for the City of Regina to become an Age-Friendly community by participating, supporting, promoting, and working to assess and improve inclusion and accessibility for individuals of all ages.”
Initial Survey: April, 2019. Now completed. The following are for information purposes only.
Link to Initial Survey: Click here to access survey form
Analysis of Survey results: Click here for PDF
Infographic: Click here for PDF
Revised Survey: 2023-2025
A revised survey was launched in January 2023 and closed in January 2025. The analysis of the results is pending.
Age-Friendly Regina Goals for 2025-2026:
PROMOTE AGE-FRIENDLY REGINA THROUGH:
ENSURE BETTER ACCESS TO THE AGING WELL IN REGINA GUIDE THROUGH
STRENGTHEN COMMUNICATION WITH CITY COUNCIL THROUGH:
PROMOTE AGE-FRIENDLY WITHIN REGINA’S BUSINESS COMMUNITY THROUGH:
SUPPORT SOCIAL PRESCRIBING INITIATIVE IN REGINA THROUGH:
The Previous Accomplishments grid lists most of the actions taken as a result of the enactment of the annual action plans for 2020-2024. You can view the Previous Accomplishments grid pdf here.
Update, February 2024:
Launching AGING WELL IN REGINA – Expanding its reach and enhancing its impact
September 25/2024, Age-Friendly Regina invited the public to the launch of the new Age-Friendly Regina website. The launch provided an opportunity to introduce an overview of Age-Friendly Regina’s journey from 2018-2024.
In 2024, Age-Friendly Regina received money from the Provincial Government’s Facilitating Independence Grant (FIG). The FIG project goal was to make the 4 resource guides Aging Well in Regina accessible in multiple languages. This involved the creation of a user-friendly website where the translated guides could be accessed: agefriendlyregina.ca.
Completing the FIG project involved the learning of new languages: the language of website design (thank you Strategy Labs), AND facilitating the translation of the 5 most common languages spoken by newcomers (Dari, Arabic, Swahili, Somali and Mandarin). All languages, other than those translated, use Google Translate over an HTML version.
Our community partners, Regina Open Door Society and Regina Immigrant Women Centre participated in a panel discussion explaining their work providing settlement services for newcomers and how they plan to use the translated resource guides. Age-Friendly Regina acknowledged the contribution of the community partners in helping us to better understand the needs of newcomers, as well as their ongoing support in promoting the guides.
While Age-Friendly Regina is pleased to have met the goal of having our website functional, as with all websites, it is never “done”. We will continue to add more translations and update our information. Everyone is invited to explore agefriendlyregina.ca
2025-2026 Goals:
PROMOTE AGE-FRIENDLY REGINA THROUGH:
ENSURE BETTER ACCESS TO THE AGING WELL IN REGINA GUIDE THROUGH
STRENGTHEN COMMUNICATION WITH CITY COUNCIL THROUGH:
PROMOTE AGE-FRIENDLY WITHIN REGINA’S BUSINESS COMMUNITY THROUGH:
SUPPORT SOCIAL PRESCRIBING INITIATIVE IN REGINA THROUGH:
Age-Friendly Regina has created several resources. Click the links below to see the resources:
Two major resources have been created:
Infographic summarizing final report from community assessment
Age-Friendly Regina/City of Regina “Age-Friendly Regina Lens” checklist (pending)
Current Stakeholder communication (pending)
The current issue of the Age-Friendly Regina newsletter is always linked in the sidebar to the right. Click on the Newsletter image to access it.
Click on the dates below to access previous issues of the Age-Friendly Regina newsletter.
Age-Friendly Regina Contacts:
André Nogue
Alice Samkoe
Age-Friendly Regina Committee Email:
A Guide for Aging Well in Regina: Resource for Older Adults in Regina
Age-Friendly Regina has recently produced a four-part directory to services for older adults in Regina, called collectively A Guide for Aging Well in Regina. Click the image below to go to the directory page on their website where you can access the four parts of the directory in several languages.
For more info, please contact agefriendlyregina@gmail.com
