How to Use AARP.org/Livable

Created for community "influencers" — elected officials, planners, municipal staff, placemaking pros, local leaders, policy makers, citizen activists and residents — the AARP Livable Communities website contains a mix of best practices, research, ideas, slideshows, interviews, how-to's, publications and information about replicable livability efforts throughout the nation. 

Getting Around

The AARP.org/Livable home page features links to the AARP Livable Communities initiative's key programs and content.

• To return to the home page from an article page, click on the phrase AARP LIVABLE COMMUNITIES that appears in either red or gray near the top left corner of the page. 

• To access the subject-based livability library directly, visit AARP.org/Livable-Communities-Archive.

No matter your background or level of experience, we have free, award-winning materials about livability topics and AARP’s state- and locally-driven livability and age-friendly work. 

Use this guide as a roadmap to help you navigate through the rich content on our website and other resources available through AARP.

Visit Us Online

• Bookmark AARP.org/Livable

• Sign-up for the free, weekly AARP Livable Communities e-Newsletter

• Explore the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities

• Learn about the annual AARP Community Challenge grant program

• Use the AARP Livable Communities Map

• Use the AARP Livability Index to look up a community’s livability score

• Follow us on X: @AARPLivable

• Like us on Facebook: @AARPLivableCommunities

Stay Informed!

To be among the first to know when new materials are posted, subscribe to the free, weekly, award-winning AARP Livable Communities e-Newsletter.

Use Our Free Resources

• Order or download our free publications from the AARP Livable Communities Livable Library

Take a Deep Dive

• Use the subject-based Livability Library

Learn From the Pros 

• Find answers to the question “What is a Livable Community?

• Take some Livable Lessons (the “Local Planning” series is our version of "Livability 101")

• Watch presentations from our Workshops and Conferences (we suggest starting with Gil Penalosa, Keith Benjamin and John Robert Smith)