14 November 2009 / YAŞAR KURU , KASTAMONU
The International Centre on Aging, part of the İstanbul-based World Aging Council, plans to turn Turkey’s western Black Sea region into an international center of life for seniors.
Following a summit on global aging in İstanbul in February, the World Aging Council has been researching the possibility of building senior centers in the western parts of Turkey’s Black Sea region.Members of the World Aging Council, including architect and healthy cities planner Colin Mosher, life coach and project director John Dunlop, alternative medicine and ecology consultant Tsahai Ungar and coordinator of active aging İsmail Oyanık, met with health officials and mayors of districts in Kastamonu province on a six-day trip to Bolu, Karabük and Kastamonu. World Aging Council Chairman Kemal Aydın noted that the mayors of Devrekanı and Bozkurt were especially interested in their senior center projects. The council will present a report on the places where they conducted research to the Secretariat General of the United Nations.
