Age-Friendly Pikes Peak Action Plan
In 2024 the City of Colorado Springs became the new home of the Age-Friendly Pikes Peak Action Plan following Innovations in Aging Collaborative’s ending its operations.
The City’s Housing and Homelessness Response Department hosts the action plan, while championing the Age-Friendly housing strategic focus area.
Read the Age-Friendly Pikes Peak Action Plan
The 2023-2028 Age-Friendly Pikes Peak Plan was built with the collaborative input of diverse stakeholders throughout the Pikes Peak region. Find out how your community can engage to achieve key priorities for aging and benefit from all the Age-Friendly Network of Communities has to offer.
Report: Aging in Place in the United States and Colorado Springs
Pikes Peak Housing Network partnered with Age-Friendly Colorado Springs to research the complicated issue of senior housing and aging in place. The study was completed in 2024.
AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities
The AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities supports the work of local, regional and state governments as they prepare for the nation’s changing demographics.
Innovations in Aging - Resolutions of Appreciation
The Innovations in Aging Collaborative launched Age Friendly Colorado Springs and Age-Friendly Pikes Peak efforts, building a network of community members, agencies and advocates that work together to make our community livable for people of all ages.
Explore these resources
Advocates, agencies and partners use these resources to continue making our community more age-friendly and to carry out the Age-Friendly Pikes Peak Action Plan.
AgeTech & Entrepreneurship Resources
AgeTech is a niche industry focused on the use of technology to address the needs and opportunities of aging populations.
Entrepreneurs and founders in the AgeTech industry develop innovative solutions to improve the quality of life, health, and well-being of older adults, supporting equity, independence, and autonomy at all stages of life.
Age-Friendly Business & Employment Resources
Anti-Ageism Culture Change Resources
Community Partners
These partners and champions were integral to the development of the Age-Friendly Pikes Peak Action Plan and making it a reality.
Age-Friendly Community Partners
- AARP https://www.aarp.org/
- Lifelong Colorado https://cdhs.colorado.gov/lifelong-colorado
- Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments https://beta.ppacg.org/
- Pikes Peak Area Agency on Aging https://agefriendlypikespeak.org/
- El Paso County Colorado https://www.elpasoco.com/
- City of Colorado Springs https://coloradosprings.gov/
AgeTech and Entrepreneurship
- Exponential Impact https://www.exponentialimpact.com/
- Colorado Startups https://coloradostartups.org/
- American Society on Aging https://www.asaging.org/
- Denver Startup Week https://www.denverstartupweek.org/
- UCCS https://www.uccs.edu/
- Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center https://pikespeaksbdc.org/
Age-Friendly Business
- Better Business Bureau https://www.bbb.org/local-bbb/bbb-of-southern-colorado
- Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC https://coloradospringschamberedc.com/
Creative Aging
- Cottonwood Center for the Arts https://cottonwoodcenterforthearts.com/
- Art Against Ageism https://artagainstageism.org/
Community-Based Organizations
- Pikes Peak Housing Network https://pphousingnetwork.org/
- The Independence Center https://www.theindependencecenter.org/
- Greccio Housing https://www.greccio.org/
- Dementia Friendly America https://dfamerica.org/
- Silver Key Senior Services https://www.silverkey.org/
- Senior Resource Council https://seniorresourcecouncil.org/
- AgeWise Colorado https://agewisecolorado.org/
- LinkAGES https://www.linkagesconnects.org/hubs
