Fremont Recognized for Age-Friendly Innovation

FREMONT, CA — The City of Fremont has drawn attention for its efforts to integrate seniors into the fabric of the community. Fremont is one of 8 cities and counties in California chosen for the honor by AARP, the organization announced on Friday.

Fremont has been invited to highlight the city's age-friendly efforts – particularly the innovative use of participatory focus groups – during AARP California’s first Age-Friendly Communities Conference. Fremont, along with representatives from seven other cities and organizations, will present work that exemplifies age-friendly innovation at this inaugural gathering of practitioners, planners, and researchers who are driving and informing efforts to create age-friendly communities across California.

The Age-Friendly Communities Conference will be held on Tuesday, April, 25 in Pasadena.

AARP’s Network of Age-Friendly Communities is an affiliate of the World Health Organization’s Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Program, an international effort to help cities prepare for rapidly aging populations and the parallel trend of rapid urbanization. The program has participating communities in more than 20 nations, as well as 10 affiliates representing more than 1,000 additional communities.

California is home to 12 communities in AARP’s Age Friendly Network, including: West Hollywood, Berkeley, Chula Vista, Fremont, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Novato, San Diego County, San Francisco, San Jose, Saratoga, Sonoma County and Sacramento.

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