Engaging Older People in Age-Friendly Cities through Participatory Video Design

Abstract

Participatory video design is a novel approach to collect experiences and perceptions of older people about the age-friendliness of their city or neighborhood. In this article, we describe how this co-creative method can add to specific knowledge about the preferences and needs of older people about the improvement or preservation of their environment. We describe two examples of this approach in the cities of The Hague and Leiden, the Netherlands. Persons of 60 years and older were invited to participate in a “workshop” on filmmaking focusing on age-friendly cities. A professional filmmaker and a researcher of the University of Applied Sciences worked in co-creation with older people, to produce short films on the topics that were perceived as important from the perspective of the participants. The older people worked in couples to produce their short films about the city or their neighborhood. Topics of the films included communication and information, outdoor spaces, social relations, and community support. The use of participatory video design can foster empowerment and social interaction among older participants, and insight into the preferences and needs of older people regarding age-friendly cities.

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“…For this Feature Paper Special Issue entitled "Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: State of the Art and Future Perspectives", a total of 29 papers were recently published on different topics related to this subject matter. Of the published papers, seven papers [22][23][24][25][26][27][28] related to age-friendly neighbourhoods, cities, communities and societies, three papers [29][30][31] explored innovative approaches to housing, two papers [32,33] concentrated on age-friendly transportation, four papers [34][35][36][37] focused on innovative practices in the domain of cure and/or care for older citizens, four papers [38][39][40][41] related to respect and social inclusion, and nine papers [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] dealt with the consideration of technology in an age-friendly city or community.…”