How to Use AARP.org/Livable

Created for community "influencers" — elected officials, planners, municipal staff, placemaking pros, local leaders, policy makers, citizen activists and residents — the AARP Livable Communities website contains a mix of best practices, research, ideas, slideshows, interviews, how-to's, publications and information about age-friendly efforts throughout the nation. 

 

Getting Around

Our home page features links to the AARP Livable Communities initiative's key programs and content about the subjects we cover.

• To return to the home page, from an article page, click on the phrase AARP LIVABLE COMMUNITIES that appears in either red or grey near the top left corner of the page. 

• To access our subject-based livability library directly, visit AARP.org/Livable-Communities-Archive.

No matter your background or level of experience, we have free, award-winning materials about livability topics and AARP’s state- and locally-driven livability and age-friendly work. 

Use this guide as a roadmap to help you navigate through the rich content on our website and other resources at your disposal through AARP.

Visit Us Online

• Bookmark AARP.org/Livable

• Sign-up for the free, weekly AARP Livable Communities e-Newsletter

• Explore the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities

• Learn about the AARP Community Challenge

• Use the AARP Livable Communities Map

• Look up your community’s livability score: AARP Livability Index

• Follow us on X: @AARPLivable

• Like us on Facebook: @AARPLivableCommunities

Stay Informed!

As the website of the AARP Livable Communities initiative, AARP.org/Livable contains informative, easy-to-understand content and resources for community leaders and involved residents.

To be among the first to know when new materials are posted, subscribe to the free, weekly, award-winning AARP Livable Communities e-Newsletter.

Use Our Free Resources

• Order or download our free publications from the Livable Library

Take a Deep Dive

• Livability topics found in the Livability Library

See What Livability Looks Like 

• Find answers to the question “What is a Livable Community?”

• See videos about projects funded by the AARP Community Challenge

• Watch the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities training videos

• Take some Livable Lessons (the “Local Planning” series is our version of "Livability 101")

• Listen to presenters and panelists from our Workshops and Conferences (we suggest starting with Gil Penalosa, Keith Benjamin and John Robert Smith)

Need to reach us? Connect with AARP Livable Communities