San Mateo County, CA
San Mateo County and the Center for Age-Friendly Excellence (CAFE)
have successfully partnered to achieve World Health Organization (WHO) age-friendly community designation for eight cities in the County
Supervisor David Canepa <Image source: San Mateo County, CA>
Brisbane, East Palo Alto, Hillsborough and South San Francisco become the most recent cities to achieve this recognition.
Brisbane, East Palo Alto, Hillsborough and South San Francisco join Belmont, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, Foster City, Half Moon Bay-Coastside, Millbrae, Pacifica, Redwood City, San Carlos, and the City of San Mateo which had each previously received this designation as part of this project. The project is funded by the County, led by a Core leadership group of local leaders and guided by the Office of Supervisor David Canepa.
CAFE provided technical assistance, consultation, applied research access, community organizing, coordination of the assessment process, and helped write the official application submitted to AARP which is the World Health Organization (WHO) designate for Age Fridendly Cities certification. CAFE helped to identify individual city task forces, conduct older adult focus groups, assisted in prioritizing projects to address unmet needs, and engaged local community leaders and elected officials.
Through this process,
CAFE assists these communities to become intentional about the Global Age-Friendly initiative and develop plans, infrastructure funding ideas, and programs to successfully implement projects and initiatives in WHO’s eight domains.