Age-friendly towns and cities: a mixed methods approach to developing an evaluation instrument for public health interventions

BackgroundIn the context of population ageing and urbanisation, a growing number of cities are adopting the WHO's Age-Friendly Cities (AFC) framework, which incorporates eight interlinking domains. This study set out to design an evidence-based instrument to assess interventions intended to make urban settings more age-friendly.MethodsFieldwork is taking place in Liverpool, UK. A needs assessment used census, Hospital Episode Statistics, and …