The Role of Collaboration in Trans-sectoral Research

Towards flourishing places in the divine milieu

Ageing CreativelyOn the island of Ireland, Europe & USA

Value Ageing Seminar

The Pavilion, Stormont, Belfast , 20th March 2012

Rodd Bond mriai

The Dry Stone Wall

• Function

• Form

• Economy

• Time

Variations and change

• Within and without

• Inclusion and exclusion

• Organic adaptation

• Marking our place / ownership

• Mediating connection

• Global– Urbanisation– Globalisation– Climate change– Demographic ageing

• National– Spatial strategy– Economic competitiveness/jobs– Energy / environment– Ageing well

• Regional/County/Community

Sustainability context

Settlement Economic activity

Quality of• Regional/County/Community

– Inclusive planning at a local level• Economic• Social• Cultural

Demographicchange

Climatechange

ofLife

• Situating and differentiating

• Measuring ‘good place’ – ‘fit’

Age-Friendly Cities …

• County model for age-friendly development

Buildings and outdoor spaces

Housing

Transport

Respect and inclusion

Social participation

Civic participation/employment

Connection:

Rural transport & urban mobility

Confidence:

Sense of safety & security

Empowerment:

Better access to better information

Alignment & Convergence:

• Requires collective leadership fostering collaboration, partnership and open innovation

Civic participation/employment

Information and communication

Community and health services

Health, housing and care

Shareable places for all:

recognise frailty

Lifecourse:

Inter-generational solidarity

Energy for change:

Older people as a resource

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LOUTH AGE-FRIENDLY COUNTY OFFICE

HOUSING, HOME &NEIGHBOURHOOD

HEALTH & COMM.SERVICES

BUSINESS &ENTERPRISE

TRANSPORT &MOBILITY

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homeNeighbourhood& centres

People &community

connection &relatedness

Business &enterprise

services

Guidelines & tools

Ageing Well – Intergenerational solidarity

• Rights & Outcomes

Healthy: Physically &

Mentally

Supported in Active living &

learning

EconomicallySecure

&Free frompoverty

Part of positive networks

&participating in

society

Safe from Harm

&Secure inPhysical

environment

• A New Economics– Counter ageing

– Human well-being

– Our human energy / hope

societyenvironment

Citizen-centric Person at the heart

Private services

Family

Person

Public services

Community/Voluntary

Care & Cure

1. Cross sectoral alignments

2. Pathway integration

Cúltaca

Flourishing and the divine milieu Action & Passion

Learning Productive Leisure

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All phases of activity contribute to individual and societal well-being

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All phases of passivity (growth & diminishment) en-rich life

Places to Flourish

• Fostering culture change in long term care

Privacy

Freedom

Autonomy

Person at heart

Safety & protection

Social / therapeutic relationships

Entering and leaving / transitions

Secret spaces, places, sanctuary

The dining / mealtime experience

Personal and therapeutic care

Getting-up and settling down

Patterns & principles

• Structure & structure preserving transformation

Social / therapeutic relationships

Dignity & respect

Character / aesthetic

Sensory experience

Flexibility / adaptability

Orientation / way-finding

Getting-up and settling down

Personal and social milieu

Dying, death and after death care

Our Place - some context!

Temporal horizons: Culture & longevity (John F. Haught)

Dinosaurs arrive (p225 Volume 30) – extinct (p385) Hominid ancestors – p440

Research timeframes

From BB to now – 13.7b years

Earth’s story begins (Volume 21)

Life’s story begins (Volume 22)

Dinosaurs arrive (p225 Volume 30) – extinct (p385) Hominid ancestors – p440

Modern man – last 5th of p450

Ethical cities – Anam Čara

• Within and without – connectedness and un-folding

positive solitude

work and action

Outer energy diminishment

our within

The digital has truncated time and space.

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We have forfeited the practice of

patience, the attention to emergence and

the delight of discovery. ..

The self has become anxious for what the

next instant might bring …

friendship as awakening

senses and creativity

Death and illumination

our within next instant might bring …

The greed for destination obliterates the

journey …

When the sense of destination becomes

gracious, the journey can become an

adventure of beauty. …

(John O’Donohue)

Dissolving walls, Osmosis & Permeable Place

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