Consequently, the aging population will require policy makers, planners and municipal governments across the globe to change their mindset and focus on making our communities age-friendly. In order to lead and initiate policy changes in countries affected by an aging population, the WHO introduced the “Active Ageing” and “Age-friendly cities” frameworks in 2002, outlining the key issues related to the development, research, and implementation of policies for making our communities age-friendly. The government in British Columbia was influential in the development of these frameworks, and in 2008 developed a provincial ‘Healthy Living Framework’ to address the anticipated increase in the proportion of BC’s population of people older than 65 (25% of BC’s population will be 65 years or older by 2031 based on estimates) (British Columbia Ministry of Healthy Living and Sports, 2008; Plouffe et al., 2012).