About The Age-Friendly Saskatchewan Committee

The Age-Friendly Saskatchewan Committee assists communities on their journey to becoming more Age-Friendly by providing information and resources, facilitating community consultations, assisting communities in their Action Planning, working together to promote Age-Friendly, introducing Age-Friendly to new communities, hosting provincial events (often by Zoom) to bring local committees together.

The committee, appointed by SSM (the Saskatchewan Seniors Mechanism), has volunteers from across Saskatchewan. Chair – Linda Pratt, Elaine Britton, Cheryl Loadman, Joyce Hoffman, Éric Lefol, Age-Friendly Communities Staff: Wendy Thienes.

About Age-Friendly

In 2002, at a meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, WHO and project partners developed a protocol for research into the concept of age-friendly. In 2006, the results of those initial focus groups led WHO to form the global AgeFriendly Communities process that promotes healthy, accessible, inclusive communities where all people are valued, included and supported.

In 2012, SSM began working toward developing the Age-Friendly program in Saskatchewan. The program continues to grow!

Timeline of Global and Canadian Age-Friendly development, featuring a graphic image of a winding highway with year signposts along the way and notes about what happened in Age-Friendly history in those years.
Timeline of Age-Friendly in Saskatchewan graphic features a graphic image of a winding road with year signposts along the way and brief notes of actions taken in that year.

WHO’s framework consists of domains and milestones:

Age-Friendly Community Milestones graphic. Rectangles of teal, pink, light teal, and purple each with one of the milestones written on the rectangle, surround a circle with words about record-keeping and evaluation. Arrows between the rectangles have points on both ends, showing that the movement between milestones is ongoing and non-linear.

“If it serves older persons, it will serve all persons.”