Online Professional Development Course

Age-Friendly Principles & Practices

Over two decades, as world demographics began shifting to an older society, experts in NGOs (non-governmental organizations), non-profits and the private sector established a set of age-friendly standards designed to improve the quality of life for older adults. There are now thousands of participating organizations that have stepped up to meet these standards in the pursuit of making themselves more age-friendly.

The "Age-Friendly Principles & Practices" course consists of three sections. The first is about age-friendly cities and communities, the second is about age-friendly employers and the third is about age-friendly care. After each section, you’ll be asked to take a short, 10-question quiz. You must pass each quiz in order to move on to the next section. In order to receive your ‘Age-Friendly Advisor’ designation and Certificate, you’ll also complete and pass a final exam.

The course host, Age-Friendly Institute President Tim Driver, and presenters are among the age-friendly movement’s originators.

We use a ‘train the trainer’ approach. That means we explain the history of the movement and give you background on these age-friendly standards and rubrics, so you can in turn train older adults and their families or supporters on where to find relevant solutions in or nearby their towns.

This course is available only to qualified participants. Contact us to learn how your organization can participate in this course.

Presenters

Communities

Alexandre Kalache

Age-Friendly Institute, Int'l
Longevity Ctr., Formerly with WHO

Meet Alex

Alexandre Kalache is a medical epidemiologist specializing in the study of aging. Since 2012, he has been the President of the International Longevity Centre - Brazil, and since 2015, he has served as co-President of the Global Alliance of International Longevity Centres. He formerly directed the World Health Organization’s global aging program, founding WHO Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities. Prior to his tenure at the WHO, Kalache pursued an academic career largely in the United Kingdom at the Universities of London and Oxford. Kalache has researched, written and spoken in the field of aging as an academic, international civil servant and advocate.

Employers

Bill Coleman

Age-Friendly Institute

Meet Bill

Bill Coleman is a Member of the Board of Directors of Age Friendly Ventures, Inc. and he is one of the architects of the Certified Age-Friendly Employer (CAFE) Program. Mr. Coleman’s most recent role was Chief Data Officer at Payscale, where he was responsible for maintaining, managing and integrating all of the company’s compensation datasets and Artificial Intelligence models. Prior to Payscale, Mr. Coleman was the Founder, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Data Officer of Payfactors Group, LLC., where he oversaw the company’s complete data sets, consulting services and customer success functions. From 2000-2009 Mr. Coleman was the SVP of Compensation at Salary.com, where he oversaw that organization’s data operations, products, and research related to both broad-based and executive compensation. Mr. Coleman helped build Salary.com from a startup to a $300 million market cap publicly traded company. Mr. Coleman was also Salary.com’s SVP of Corporate Development, where he acquired and integrated six companies. Before Salary.com, Mr. Coleman held senior consulting and management positions with Willis Towers Watson and PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers). He has been a frequent commentator on topics of human resources, compensation, retirement planning, equity compensation, etc. in outlets including: NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and Money Magazine. Mr. Coleman has a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.).

Care

Terry Fulmer

John A. Hartford Foundation

Meet Terry

Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, is President of The John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City, a foundation dedicated to improving the care of older adults. She serves as the chief strategist for the Foundation and her vision for better care of older adults is catalyzing the Age-Friendly Health Systems social movement. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and served on the independent Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes. She previously served as Distinguished Professor and Dean of Health Sciences at Northeastern University and Founding Dean of the New York University College of Nursing. Dr. Fulmer is nationally and internationally recognized as a leading expert in geriatrics and is also known for conceptualization and development of the national NICHE program and research on the topic of elder abuse and neglect. She is the first nurse to have served on the board of the American Geriatrics Society. She is also the first nurse to have served as President of the Gerontological Society of America, which awarded her the 2019 Donald P. Kent Award for exemplifying the highest standards for professional leadership in the field of aging.