Age-friendly toolkit

The Queensland Age-friendly community Toolkit is your go-to guide to bringing age-friendly initiatives to life in your community.

This toolkit introduces age-friendliness and its benefits, as well as the risks and missed opportunities that come with not being age-friendly. It also provides tools and resources to assist with the development, implementation and evaluation of age-friendly initiatives, plans and programs.

It has been designed for any organisation – including not-for-profit, business or government – to be able to apply the age-friendly approach easily, with inspiring examples from Queensland beyond.

How to navigate the toolkit

When using the toolkit, you can start at the beginning and work your way through, or simply pick the sections that are of interest to your organisation or community.

Each section includes helpful tips on simple, low-cost ways you can bring age-friendly to life.

What is age-friendly

Find out about the age-friendly approach, how it was developed and how it is being applied in Queensland.
Making the case for being age-friendly

Communities, organisations and governments that take steps to become age-friendly and liveable for all will have a significant advantage over those that do not. Find out how being age-friendly can benefit you, your community or your organisation.
5 steps to being age-friendly

Check out the 5 steps in the age-friendly planning process.
Age-friendly examples

Read about Queensland and Australian communities with age-friendly initiatives.
Tools and resources

Tools and resources