Active retirement (Aktiver Lebensabend )
Austria
The campaign has been existing since 1964 and provides social and recreational opportunities to its members. Once a week seniors have the possibility to meet up in one of 10 so-called "Tagesbegegnungsstätten" (meeting centres). The groups are run and supported by volunteers. Today, the initiative has about 500 members in the city of Graz.

City Department for Senior´Affairs (Seniorenbüro der Stadt Graz)
Austria
The senior office acts as a networking and relay institution for various activities offered for elderly citizens in the city of Graz.

Even Wrinkles can laugh - Volunteers in nursing homes (Besuchsdienste - Auch Falten können lachen)
Austria
People who have to live in nursing homes are often excluded from society and social contacts. The only contacts they have are very often to professionals who take care of their bodily needs. Different scientific studies show, that due to lack of contact and activities diseases get worse faster. As soon as those people have regularly visitors depressions and dementia are less of a problem and increase slower. This is why it is important to the Volkshilfe Styria to provide social activities to all people who live in the 20 nursing homes in Styria. The visitors are volunteers who donate a part of their free time to socially excluded elderly people.

Integration of senior migrant citizens into two senior clubs in the 15th district of Vienna
Austria
The project was started in 2003 to promote the integration of senior migrant citizens´ interests into all offers for elderly citizens provided by the city of Vienna.

Megaphon-Uni. Education without Barriers
Austria
The MAGAPHON-University enables social disadvantaged people to obtain eductaion at university level by providing a series of lectured tailored to the needs and interests of the target group. All lectures are free of charge. The idea behind is \"the exchange of knowledge at the same level\" between professors teaching at university and socially disadvantaged (older) people.

Project to promote an intergenerational cooperation in public places (Park(T)raum – für ein gutes Miteinander)
Austria
“Park(T)raum“ is an intergenerational project with young social workers and older volunteers (mainly senior migrant citizens). Both groups supervise recreation parks in Vienna and provide entertainment to young children playing in the park. The aim is to form new coalitions across the boarders of generation and to strengthen intergenerational solidarity by integrating children, young adults, adults and senior citizens. In the first step, the project has been launched in two public parks in the 15th district of Vienna. The objectives of the project are:
- Promoting intergenerational contacts
- Promoting intercultural exchange
- Developing new kinds of entertainments (games, joint actions)
- Promoting mutual support and solidarity
- Raising awareness of the needs of the other groups
Furthermore, the project aims at building up cooperation between social services, child day associations, youth clubs and services for older citizens.

Promoting Healthy Ageing in Rural and Semi-Urban Communities in Austria (Lebenswerte Lebenswelten)
Austria
"Lebenswerte Lebenswelten für ältere Menschen" is a best-practice model of community-based health promotion for the elderly commissioned by the Austrian Health Promotion Foundation. The three-year-project's aim is to develop, explore and evaluate innovative approaches or policies for community-development and empowerment of elderly population groups to improve their health-related quality of life and participation in social activities. The project started in March 2003 in 13 Styrian communities located in two districts. These districts differ in two criteria: population income and percentage of elderly people.

Senior Talent Exchange Hard (Seniorenbörse Hard)
Austria
The senior exchange system of Hard was founded by two pensioners and is a local,non-profit exchange network in which all kinds of services can be traded. Neighbours and friends exchange services and time according to their individual facilities and knowledge. The kind of return service must be arranged between the participants.

Volunteer Centre Tyrol (Freiwilligenzentrum Tirol)
Austria
Volunteer Centre Tyrol acts as a link between people who wish to volunteer and organisations which involve volunteers in their work. It exists to involve a number of people more effectively in volunteer work to promote solidarity between people by
* encouraging people to engage in voluntary work
* providing an appropriate infrastructure
* encouraging and supporting of examples of good practice

Coordination of the volunteers taking care for the elderly both at home and in social care institutions
Czech Republic
Coordination of volunteers assisting seniors in various workaday activities – leisure time activities, accompaniment

Involving the elderly into community planning of social services
Czech Republic
Involving the elderly into planning of social services by negotiation with seniors´ associations and via principles of community planning.

Training family members in qualified care for an elderly person
Czech Republic
Family members taking care for their relatives are trained for qualified home care.

Change of ends(Seitenwechsel)
Germany
Volunteers are caring for chronically ill older people who have formerly worked as volunteers themselves.

Dwelling for help (Wohnen für Hilfe)
Germany
Seniors whose appartment is too big and who need support in everyday situations are matched with students looking for non-expensive living space.

Living with the Alzheimer desease in Frankfurt am Main (Leben mit der Alzheimer-Krankheit in Frankfurt am Main)
Germany
Organisation of a café with dancing for people with and without Alzheimer desease

Project "Getting old in Neighbourhood" (Projekt “Alt werden in Nachbarschaft“)
Germany
Strengthening community networks which facilitate an independent life in old age

Reminiscence work with older people (Erinnerungsarbeit mit älteren Menschen)
Germany
In this project, people living in the retirement home "Pariser Gasse" had the possibility to tell "their own story". The stories were written down by a social worker. Finally the stories were published in form of a book.

We don't leave you alone (Wir lassen euch nicht alleine)
Germany
By founding of a low-threshold and part time caring service, people suffering from senile dementia and their relatives are given the possibility to meet other affected people, to talk about their problems and to help each other.

Workshop "Coping with loneliness" (Workshop "Einsamkeit bewältigen")
Germany
Workshop of several days in 2001 to sensitize volunteers from seniors cooperatives to the issue of loneliness

Measures against the hot weather (Che caldo che fa)
Italy
The project covered the area of the province of Modena involving the Health services and the municipalities: it dealt with the setting up of a system able to forecast the heat waves and start up a support network in order to inform, monitor and assist older people both in their houses and in care centres.

My Home is Safe! (La "mia" casa sicura)
Italy
The project carries out a shared regional planning with the aim of assessing the social sustainability of actions in favour of the current and future needs of the older people. In 2003, the "Heat Emergency" showed the need to improve the assistance to chronically ill people through an alarm system and the use of simple technology. The diffuse presence of our domiciliary care services gives us the possibility to report the danger of home accidents. The objective is to monitor our area trying to optimise the network of current services through technology (GIS, domotics…) and human resources (Caregivers, health and social workers, technicians, volunteers)

Older People Resource Centre "Silver Thread" (Centro Risorse Anziani "Filo D'Argento")
Italy
Counselling centre devoted to older people with a hot line service and point of distribution of relevant information materials. The centre offers psychological and material support to all those older people who do not want to leave their houses.

Social Centers to Favour Older People\'s Social Inclusion in Big towns through Spreading of Information (I centri anziani per l\'aiuto e l\'inclusione sociale degli anziani soli ed emarginati nelle città metropolitane)
Italy
In 1/12/2004 in seven different Italian towns (Bresso-Milano; Bologna; Civitanova Marche-Macerata; Firenze; Roma, Eboli-Salerno; Palermo) this project started information help desk in the framework of already running social centres. These desks are meant for older people, their family members and their caregivers to favour the access to social services offered in the different areas. Specifically trained volunteers manage the Help desks: they have access to a user friendly ad hoc data-bank.

Social Centres at local level (Centri Territoriali di Socializzazione)
Italy
These centres organise several activities finalised to favour the socialisation among older persons in order to tackle the risks of exclusion and isolation. These activities are organised in sport centres, clubs and parish churches in order to keep older people in a network of relationship outside their own families.

Community Service Bank
Lithuania
Elderly people may offer services to the Service Bank in exchange for money or different services such as: household equipment repair; minor home remodelling work; legal and psychological assistance (preparing documents for inheritance of land and property, debt collection, etc.); care and nursing; history expertise (cooperation with school teachers and students telling the story of the locality and its famous people); crime prevention in cooperation with the Police Department etc. (distribution of brochures, dissemination of information etc.); home-keeping and cleaning; garden keeping; looking after graves; short-term care of pets while their owners are away.

Day care center for lonely mothers
Lithuania
In this centre senior citizens could offer their help to single mothers and provide shor-time care of the kids. Older people have a possibility to share their life stories and experience, get satisfaction of being necessary, give young women a break to look for the job and advice them in many practical matters. Younf women can do the shopping for older people and help them cope with things they are not able to do themselves.

How to introduce yourself to the employer and how to start your own business for women 50+
Lithuania
60 hour (30+30) free-of-charge course for active women wiling to get a job, change a job or start their own business. Basic knowledge on writing a CV, application letter, suggestive speaking, body language; types of business companies and methods of setting up a company, writing a business plan.

Care Direct
United Kingdom
Telephone based single point of access for information and initial assessment for older people.

Promoting Independence Team
United Kingdom
A joint health and social care team which proactively ‘case finds\' older people felt to be at risk of an emergency or general deterioration in their quality of life. Multi-disciplinary team which carries out holistic assessment and short term case management.

Quality of Life Survey
United Kingdom
An annual survey to assess the quality of life of the local population.