AARP Livable Communities
Get Started with the AARP Roadmap to Livability
The AARP Roadmap to Livability features six free workbooks with strategies and solutions that make a community great for people of all ages. Order or download the entire collection or choose among the booklets about housing, transportation, community engagement, economic development and more.
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New and Notable
AARP Home and Community Preferences Survey
Here's what Americans age 50 or older think about where they live, and where and how they want to live in the future
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Free Publications
Creating Parks and Public Spaces for People of All Ages
Order or download this free step-by-step parks and placemaking guide by AARP, 8 80 Cities and The Trust for Public Land
MORE PUBLICATIONS
About Us
About the AARP Livable Communities Initiative
Learn what a livable community is, and how and why AARP is working with local leaders nationwide to make more places more livable for people of all ages
MORE ABOUT AARP LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
Livable Resources
TOOLS & GUIDES
AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit (and Leader Guide)
Use this survey kit to observe and document the safety and safety risks of the streets in your community.
LIVABLE LESSONS
How to Volunteer for a Tax Break
Medford, Massachusetts, lets its older residents lower their property taxes in exchange for helping out at City Hall
INTERVIEWS
Q&A with Mayors Melvin Carter and Jacob Frey
The Twin Cities’ leaders (pictured with Snoop Dog) on making their communities livable for people of all ages
SLIDESHOWS
Main Street Gets a Makeover
See before and after photos of how a weekend demonstration project made Bethel, Vermont, pop!
ABOUT LIVABILITY
In a Livable Community ...
Download our poster about the features of a livable community (available in five languages)
Livability Subjects
GETTING AROUND
HOUSING
Take a Tour of a 'Lifelong' Home
An Oregon couple custom creates an age-friendly house. Plus: A real estate program worth replicating
PLACES AND SPACES
Pop Goes a Plaza
Learn how a demonstration project in a New Jersey downtown transformed a sorry space into a destination. (Then follow the links to see other projects.)
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Helping Retailers be Age-Friendly
From AARP Hawaii, advice for how businesses can better serve older adults
LIVABLE POLICY
Livability Index
This interactive, online tool scores communities across the U.S. for the features, services and amenities that make for great places to live