Award beckons as Cork aims to become age-friendly city

A new strategy has been launched to make Cork city a better place in which to grow old. And one of its key recommendations is already in the running for a national award.

A seniors’ text alert scheme devised by the Ballyphehane Togher Community Development Programme has been shortlisted for the national Age Friendly Achievement Awards later this month.

Businesses have now been urged to do more to help older customers, plans are in place to increase physical activity and volunteerism from middle age, and a directory of services for older people will be prepared as part of the new plan to make Cork an age-friendly city. The details were unveiled yesterday at the launch of the Cork Age Friendly City Strategy 2016-2020 in City Hall.