Age Friendly Businesses: Comfort. Visibility, Safety, Respect

An Age-Friendly Community Recognition Program is being introduced in Saskatchewan to recognize communities that undertake activities or create programming to be inclusive to seniors, leading to communities that are more inclusive of ALL people. Age-Friendly Moose Jaw’s Vision is to see a community where seniors are supported to thrive and attain a high quality of life in Moose Jaw. Our Mission is to educate, advocate and collaborate with community stakeholders to support the senior community in Moose Jaw.

We recognize the importance of the business community to be age-friendly so that all community members can access any business, be well served, enjoy whatever the business has to offer, and feel well cared for and valued. An age-friendly business serves people of all ages and abilities.

Today’s older adults are healthier, more educated and more affluent than previous generations of seniors. According to the most recent census data, seniors (65 and over) represent approximately 19.3% of the city’s population, compared to national average of 16.9% and provincial average of 15.5%. That represents a lot of potential revenue for those Moose Jaw businesses that are more age-friendly.

Moose Jaw’s Age-Friendly Committee wants to work with our local businesses to support our city in being recognized as an ‘Age-Friendly’ Community. As such we hope to follow-up with those businesses committed to being age-friendly. Specifically, for any businesses wishing to be recognized for their efforts to be accommodating, we would invite you to contact our committee Additionally, we are hoping to provide recognition with an award for display.

If you have any questions/comments, please do not hesitate to connect with our committee representatives: Rom Jukes (306-691-2323) (Rom.Jukes@saskhealthauthority. ca) OR Christine Boyczuk (mjliteracy@yahoo.ca).