Municipal Infrastructure Program for Seniors (PRIMA)

With the PRIMA, municipalities that have adopted a seniors' policy and a MADA action plan under the program to support this approach will be able to benefit from maximum funding of $100,000 for carrying out infrastructure and development work. facilities aimed at meeting the needs of seniors and improving their quality of life. This work may contribute to the improvement, construction or replacement of municipal buildings, recreational infrastructures, street furniture or roads.

Goal

Québec is one of the societies where the aging of the population is the most marked in the world. This situation poses many challenges for municipalities, regional county municipalities (RCMs) and Aboriginal communities. Because of their proximity to citizens and their areas of responsibility, they are the most capable of intervening and mobilizing local actors and seniors in their territory to build more inclusive environments at all ages of life.

To help them, the Government of Québec provides them with:

• the Age-Friendly Municipality Support Program ;
• and the Age-Friendly Municipal Infrastructure Program .

Increasing support for the municipal sector is one of the government priorities included in the 2018-2023 action plan A Québec for all ages 

 , the second action plan stemming from the Aging and living together, at home, in one's community, in Quebec 

 in force since 2012. The planned actions are oriented towards supporting active aging advocated by the World Health Organization, with a view to encouraging the social participation of seniors, their healthy aging and their access to environments healthy, safe and welcoming.

The positive effects of the Age-Friendly Municipalities (MADA) initiative are undeniable, both for municipal administrations and for seniors themselves. Recent research conducted by the Research Center on Aging of the Integrated University Health and Social Services Center of Estrie – Sherbrooke University Hospital Center shows that the MADA approach has had the following effects in particular:

• it ensured the development of “senior thinking and acting”, which resulted in increased local and regional investments for the benefit of seniors;
• it has made it possible to establish new collaborations between the various players concerned with the well-being of seniors.

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