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Experts Debate Age-Friendly Communities at Symposium

October 15, 2012 6:49 AM | News


An international panel of experts will debate whether the place we live can become age-friendly at the Winnipeg Art Gallery this afternoon.

Hosted by the University of Manitoba’s Centre on Aging and the province’s Seniors and Healthy Aging Secretariat, the panel will discuss age-friendly rural and remote communities and places.

The public can sit in on the discussion from 1-4 p.m. as part of the three-day International Symposium.

The 45 invited delegates will come from Canada, Australia, Ireland, Ghana, Uganda, Cameroon, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Bolivia, Russia, the U.S. and Switzerland.

— Staff