Positive Ageing

The City of Fremantle’s Strategic Community Plan 2024-2034 aims for Fremantle to be an environment where it is easy for people to live safe, happy and healthy lives. It seeks to celebrate and support diversity and improve community inclusiveness and participation for all.

The purpose of an Age-Friendly Plan is to prioritise positive ageing opportunities for the Fremantle community and promote Fremantle as a great place for older people to visit.

The City’s journey to becoming an Age-Friendly City started in 2010 and in 2016 the City of Fremantle was accepted as a member to the World Health Organisation Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, an initiative that works to stimulate and enable cities and communities around the world to become increasingly age-friendly by:

• Connecting cities and communities worldwide to facilitate the exchange of information, knowledge and experience; and
• Supporting cities and communities to find appropriate innovative and evidence-based solutions.

In 2018 the City of Fremantle was recognised for its efforts by taking out the Age-Friendly Local Government category at the West Australian Seniors Awards in November 2018 and being a finalist in both 2023 and 2024. In 2024 Sing Swing and Mingle ~ an intergenerational concert project won the Local Government – Partnership & Collaboration award.

Age Friendly City Plan 2019-2024

The City of Fremantle Age Friendly City Plan 2019–24 has been developed and endorsed by council to guide the City’s direction over five years.

The aims for the Plan were to increase social participation and volunteering, provide intergenerational and cross-cultural activities, improve communications on relevant services and opportunities.

• Visit Age friendly Plan 2019 to 2024
• Spotlight on Positive Ageing: Age Friendly Freo 2019-2024 captures some of the most important outcomes generated by this plan.

WA State Seniors Strategy 2022-2023 & Action Plan

In 2023 the State government announced a 10-year Strategy, accompanied by the first five-year Action Plan that sets out a range of actions including a comprehensive campaign to tackle ageism in WA.

• Read a summary of the WA State Seniors Strategy (2022-2033) 
• Read the WA State Seniors Strategy Action Plan (2023-7) document 

Key documents

The City of Fremantle’s Age Friendly Plan 2025-30:

This work remains in progress, with further development currently underway to ensure the next plan reflects contemporary community needs, emerging priorities, and alignment with relevant strategic directions.

We appreciate your ongoing interest and patience, and we look forward to sharing further updates as the plan progresses.

Visit the links below for more information and progress updates:

Useful links

Use the links below to access helpful information about positive ageing support and services.