The policy instrument addressed aimed at establishing a system of social participation and protection of the rights of older adults in the Canary Islands. This law seeks to ensure the integration of the elderly into the community, promoting their comprehensive development and setting minimum standards for centers and residences dedicated to their care.
its main objective is to foster intergenerational solidarity, ensuring that older adults not only receive protection and assistance but also play an active role in society. Additionally, the instrument includes measures to eliminate physical, administrative, and social barriers that hinder the exercise of their rights, ensuring their full participation in social and community life.
The legal framework promotes the permanence of the elderly in their socio-family environment, preventing unnecessary institutionalization and encouraging their autonomy. To achieve this, the policy supports the creation of active and healthy aging centers, adopting a multidisciplinary approach that includes healthcare, social support, recreation, sports, and psychological care.
Since the PI was created in 1996, there is a need to adapt it to the current context. Its improvement is envisioned through the inclusion of new measures, funded projects, and a possible revision of the regulation, ensuring that aging policies are better aligned with the present-day needs of the elderly population in the Canary Islands.

The core principle in the Municipality of Heerenveen, like in many other municipalities, is that everyone can participate. We support residents in vulnerable situations to become resilient, and residents of all ages to live as healthily and happily as possible. We see it as our job to support residents in this, through the use of generally accessible facilities, and, where this is not sufficient, through the use of specialist or customized facilities. We want all residents to be able to live independently for as long as possible. We strive for a society in which residents know each other, can rely on each other, and to actively contribute to society.
Strengthening the basics is an important pillar within the policy instrument. This base is primarily formed by the residents themselves, the informal caregivers and the volunteers. In addition, all kinds of general facilities are considered part of the basics, such as welfare work in the neighborhood, meeting activities, daytime activities in the neighborhood, public transport, the GP, general social work, etc. We aim to strengthen the basics so that residents can live independently as much as possible, possibly with assistance or light support, and that they can participate in society.
A concrete measure that we have included in the implementation program and to strengthen the social base is to provide meeting places in the neighborhoods.

The Strategy (SNILDIA) focuses on a proactive and prevention-oriented approach to long-term care to achieve the best quality of life for all older people and to reduce periods of functional decline and loss of capacity, ensuring independence and social participation. The strategy includes measures to develop services for older people who have retained functional autonomy, as well as interventions focused on promoting active and dignified social participation of older people. The specific objectives aim to: 1) Strengthen the management of LTC services for older people; 2) Strengthen the continuum of LTC services for older people; 3) Ensure sustainable financing of LTC services for older people; 4) Improve the quality of LTC services for older people; 5) Strengthen the workforce for LTC for older people; 6) Promote active and dignified social participation of older people. The MLSS intervention under this project will focus mainly on the implementation of measure 2.1.2. Promotion of prevention programmes that support the reduction of loneliness and the increase of social participation of older people, including activities in the field of personal and community development, leisure,etc. The intervention is complementary to measure 2.1.4. aimed at promoting innovative initiatives to increase social participation of older people. The programmes can be adapted and implemented in all types of social services for older people, such as homes for older people, day centres, etc.

According to Article 13 of the Law on Balanced Regional Development, this Strategy must be prepared every five years and adopted by the regional Council no later than three months before the current document expires. When the project was submitted, the implementation period of the existing Strategy had two years remaining.
As of 17.02.25, the CDEPR, in coordination with the competent Ministry, has begun preparing the 2027-2031 Strategy. Given its essential role in CDEPR operations, there will be no discontinuity in the policy instrument or the proposed project intervention. The new Strategy’s preparation will start in the final quarter of this year and conclude by the end of the third quarter next year, with adoption by the CDEPR.
According to the project timeline, PI improvements are expected to begin in S4, between November 2026 and April 2027. By then, CDEPR will have completed the new Strategy document, which will take effect on January27. The PI improvements should be finalized by S6, approximately between November27 and April28.
Each Strategy document is based on five policy objectives relevant to the region’s development—one always being social affairs and elderly care, given the region’s aging population. The new Strategy will include this objective and benefit from the proposed PI improvements based on positive experiences from all partners involved. These improvements will be formally integrated into the new Strategy through a decision by the CDEPR.

The Social Network, established by the Council of Ministers' Resolution of November 18, 1997, is a local governance structure that coordinates efforts among social agents in the municipality. In 2022, 48 public and private entities were represented in Vila Nova de Cerveira’s Social Network.
The Social Development Plan (SDP), alongside the Social Diagnosis, is a key outcome of the Social Network Program. It defines priority objectives for local social development and serves as a planning tool, outlining strategies to address identified needs and improve living conditions. The SDP 2022-2025 aims to increase local projects through resource sharing and efficient management, providing targeted responses to social issues highlighted in the Social Diagnosis.
A new strategic plan was approved by all Social Network partners to align with the Social Radar Project’s terms (C03-i01 - New Generation of Social Equipment and Responses) under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). Submitted to the Municipal Assembly in December 2024, the new SDP 2025-2028 is based on the updated 2024 Social Diagnosis and involves 35 entities working in social services. It reflects partners' concerns, particularly for vulnerable groups. The plan will integrate good practices that promote healthy ageing and quality of life for seniors. As the elderly population is a priority, they are already actively included in the action plan, making this strategic framework essential for social development.

The Health Operational Program 2021-2027 is the first of its kind approved by the EC services in Romania and is addressed to all levels of the health care system. It aims to respond to the current needs of improving access to diagnostic and treatment services, but also to the needs of primary prevention services and secondary. The WRDA became an Intermediate Body for the Health Programme following an agreement signed with the Ministry of European Investments and Projects (MIPE). West RDA took over the project implementation component for five of the seven investment priorities:
- Increase the quality of primary, community and outpatient healthcare services and improve and strengthen preventive services
- Rehabilitation, palliation, and hospitalization services for chronic diseases adapted to the demographic phenomenon of an ageing population, the impact of disability and the morbidity profile
- Increase the effectiveness and resilience of the health system in critical areas of strategic importance with cross-cutting impact on health services and health status - communicable diseases, transfusion, critical patient stroke
- Investment in hospital infrastructure
- Measures supporting the fields of oncology and transplantation
Hence, we are the institution connecting both the policy level (RIS3West) and the financing instrument, the Health Programme, at regional level, thus, contributions from ACT-age will flow into both policy and financing instruments.

Storfors municipality's public health strategic plan 2040 aims to identify, based on available knowledge, which lines of action over time can both meet increasing needs, develop and raise the quality of elderly care and at the same time limit the increase in costs. The plan aims for the long term towards 2040.Th he objective of the project at the local level in Storfors is to:
- Promote healthy ageing with social community and support, meaningfulness and participation, physical activity and good eating habits
-Improved conditions for good, equal and equal health in Storfors municipality's population with a focus on the elderly
-Improved organizational conditions for public health work with a focus on the elderly
- Develop strategic work on health-promoting ageing to prepare for and prevent the consequences of health inequalities
- Create an organization with responsibility for equal health
The plan aims to be a starting point for the municipality´s work for equal health for elderly. The plan will also contribute to achieving set public health goals for the EU and Sweden.

The policy plan is a joint initiative of over 200 organizations, associations, councils, and residents, together with OCMW and the City of Bruges, to promote a supportive, just, and caring Bruges. Based on this plan, 3 learning networks were launched.
Bruges Dementia-Friendly was among Belgium’s first dementia-friendly initiatives. Campaigns raised awareness among shopkeepers, the hospitality sector, and residents, extending beyond Bruges due to tourism. In 2020, Bruges became Belgium’s first Compassionate City, launching projects on grief and loss. Future efforts will focus on caregivers, employers, and developing spaces for comfort and mourning. The Bruges Caregiver Platform, aims to improve the city's caregiver policy. With demographic shifts and healthcare labor shortages, reliance on caregivers is growing. Currently, Bruges' caregiver policy is mainly financial; future efforts will emphasize moral support, information, awareness, and relief for caregivers. Through the Positive Health methodology and in collaboration with VUB, Bruges is implementing preventive health actions for elderly residents. A 2023 environmental analysis revealed key concerns: low participation in cancer screenings, underuse of hearing aids, and infrequent dental visits. The policy instrument will be extended towards a new local social policy plan: Brugge draait om mensen: 2030. The main objective is to make the city of Bruges a stronger age-friendly city through the adjusted plan.

In Programme for the European Union funds’ investments in 2021-2027 4th priority “A more socially responsible Lithuania” are two specific objectives: 4.8 To enhance equal and timely access to quality, sustainable and affordable services, including services that promote the access to housing and person-centred care including healthcare; to modernise social protection systems, including promoting access to social protection, with a particular focus on children and disadvantaged groups; to improve the accessibility including for persons with disabilities, effectiveness and resilience of healthcare systems and long-term care services; and 4.10. To ensure equal access to health care and to foster resilience of health systems, including primary care, and promote the transition from institutional to family-based and community-based care. These specific objectives envisage promoting preventive measures that strengthen public health and psychological well-being and resilience, where one of the target groups is the elderly. Investments are also planned for improving the quality, accessibility and efficiency of the health system, so that it better responds to the challenges of more frequent chronic health disorders, population aging and health inequalities. The timing of the implementing policy is perfectly in line with ACT-Age, as the policy is running and with investments possible until the end of 2030 (end of ACT-Age follow up phase - 2028).

The total financial allocation amounts to 1.318 M€, divided into 4 Priorities (employment, education and training, social inclusion, and youth employment) and 10 Specific Objectives. Over 40% of the regional program's value is directed towards promoting employment.
A significant portion is allocated to supporting female employment, individuals expelled or at risk of expulsion from the labour market, aspiring entrepreneurs, and the strengthening of employment services. Specific resources are earmarked for improving skills, with a focus on training aimed at acquiring qualifications consistent with labour market needs. In this context, lifelong learning is supported, including the recognition of skills acquired through various means and the strengthening of the vocational training system.
An equally important portion of resources is aimed at ensuring equal access to services for vulnerable groups; over 30% of the resources are dedicated to the Priority of social inclusion, as well as strengthening the local welfare service system through integration between local authorities and the third sector, and between labour policies and social policies.
The resources from the Regional Programme Piemonte ESF+ 2021-2027 contribute to the implementation of the regional Plan for Active Ageing.