With a growing number of older adults wanting to live in community as long as possible, the need for community-based supports is greater than ever. Collective action is essential to meeting this need. 

What is the Edmonton Age Friendly Alliance?  

Edmonton Age Friendly Alliance is a network for the well-being of older adults. We bring allies together to help make our city more age friendly by recognizing diverse needs of seniors, and actively supporting their inclusion, engagement and well-being. 

Age-friendly principles guide our work. An action network structure helps us organize our collective energy. An intentional network* of allies can solve complex challenges and emerging issues better than any one group, by leveraging diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise. 

The Alliance is guided by a Stewardship Group which champions the work and engages stakeholders in priority-setting to make systems-level changes, including through Action Hubs. The ESCC supports this work by providing facilitation, information management, partnership development, event planning and communications. 

*Excerpt from blog post by Jeff Mohr; Building Intentional Networks that drive impact: ‘The term we use to describe networks of this type is intentional networks. June Holley, author of The Network Weavers Handbook and long-time practitioner of all things networks, describes an intentional network as: …a network of people and organizations that are working on the same issue or vision, together with structures that have been created to mobilize the energy of the organizations. Intentional networks have shared purpose. They use network principles to design how they make decisions and coordinate projects. And they show up in the world in different ways than traditional, top-down authority structures.’  

An infographic displaying Edmonton's Community Based Seniors Sector. (Download here)