Healthy Ageing in the Nordic region: highlights from the meeting of scholars in Copenhagen in 25-26 November 2025
The final third year of the NAPA Nordic Arctic Programme funded project “Arctic Healthy Aging communities: Safe and inclusive out-door environment and public spaces (The Nordic AHA-Communities)” is at its very busy midst.
The project group, who are also members of the Healthy Ageing sub-group of the UArctic Thematic Network “Health and Well-being in the Arctic”, convened in the Comwell Copenhagen Portside hotel for a half-day workshop, planning the upcoming conference roundtable session on Arctic Healthy Ageing at the UArctic Congress 2026, and working with three publications related to project methodology invention – cross-national multi-language survey to older people on healthy ageing and outdoor environment; qualitative study on barriers and enablers of the outdoor use; as well as the paper on results of measuring the life-space mobility across older adults in the northern Finland, Sweden, and Iceland, among other things.
In addition to the project workshop, the group took part in the conference ”Ageing is Living: Building Age-Friendly Communities in the Nordic-Baltic Region”, UN City Copenhagen 25-26.11.2025, getting inspiration from the Nordic and Baltic neighbours on practices on how to make the arctic communities more liveable for older persons. The conference was an excellent opportunity to network with the authorities, regions, municipalities, organizations, and researchers across the region to exchange knowledge, foster collaboration, and further strengthen efforts towards building inclusive, age-friendly communities.
Contact: Anastasia Emelyanova, project coordinator and TN Lead
Photo: Left to right: Steinunn Ólafsdóttir, Agneta Larsson, Arja Rautio, Anastasia Emelyanova, UN City - Copenhagen