International Council on Active Aging

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Facility development

The ICAA facility development section provides vital information for planning and developing an age-friendly facility. You will create a safe, attractive and space-efficient environment that inspires and motivates your participants to exercise. To access this information you need to be an ICAA member. To learn more about becoming an ICAA member, click here.

Community design (To view more ICAA articles, click here)

  • A New AGE of physical activity: creating outdoor spaces that promote active aging
  • ‘Green’ goes mainstream: environment-friendly retirement housing on the rise
  • Community design: the next step to an active society?
  • Re-creating the 'backyard' in senior communities
  • Designing landscapes to enhance well-being
  • Creating communities for active aging
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The early stages (To view more ICAA articles, click here)

  • Financing your wellness initiative
  • Getting buy-in for wellness
  • How to choose a consultant
  • Innovative premarketing strategies: how to close sales before breaking ground
  • The development process
  • The discovery period: how to plan and develop an age-friendly wellness center
  • Through a lender’s eye: how financial institutions evaluate you
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Planning the concept (To view more ICAA articles, click here)

  • Age-friendly facilities: 99 questions to assess your competition
  • Age-friendly facility checklist
  • Defining your wellness center concept
  • Designing landscapes to promote well-being
  • Fitness and financing: joined at the hip
  • Great expectations: the making of an age-friendly wellness center
  • Lessons learned: ensuring your wellness center concept endures the test of time
  • Libraries complete the mental wellness picture
  • Soapbox: Walking the talk: a commonsense process to facility programming and design
  • Planning and marketing a feasible wellness center
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The process (To view more ICAA articles, click here)

  • Dos and don’ts for creating a successful wellness center
  • Dynamic spaces that foster social well-being
  • Equipping your wellness center: innovative fitness tools for the Age Wave
  • How occupational therapists can help with wellness center design
  • How to plan, design and deliver an optimal center for physical wellness
  • Spiritual wellness: finding connections for optimal health and successful aging
  • Support spiritual wellness through creative outdoor design
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Planning tools and resources (To view more ICAA articles, click here)

  • Create an age-friendly wellness center
  • Creating and accessible fitness or wellness center
  • Installing a therapeutic pool: three factors to consider
  • Universal design 101: seven elements of ageless design
  • Accessibility guidelines for buildings and facilities
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Makeover of fitness facility for greater accessibility
  • Sample layouts
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