Planning for an ageing community

Why monitor and evaluate action on ageing?

Regular monitoring of action is an important element of the implementation process and can assist in ensuring accountability and best value is achieved for both the council and residents. Moreover, an effective monitoring process can highlight how different activities in the strategy are being used and understood, to assist with the allocation of resources and to position high quality activities as potential funded projects.

How can your council evaluate their action on ageing? This section provides tools for evaluation, ensuring that the ageing strategy remains relevant to a community over time and as conditions change.

 Tool 11

Identifying indicators for success - tool provides you with a selection of indicators to enable measurement of progress against the goals of your council's ageing strategy.

 Tool 12

Evaluating action on ageing - This tool is a checklist to help you assess the effectiveness, effort and efficiency of your council's ageing strategy and/or individual initiatives.

See also: Resource Centre > Monitoring progress.
For further information on translating the ageing strategy into action.