Did you know that...

• the Erlangen Seniors' Advisory Council was the first Bavarian seniors' advisory council to be founded?
• Alexandra Wunderlich has been its sixth chairperson since it was founded in 1974? Her predecessors in office were Ursula Rechtenbacher, Jutta Helm, Helga Steeger, Anette Christian and Dinah Radtke.
• an insufficient number of care places in Erlangen was the decisive factor in the founding of the advisory board?
• the focus of the work of all six chairpersons remained broadly the same and continued to focus on day care and the expansion of retirement homes (as long as the city of Erlangen had municipal homes), senior-friendly housing with the demand for more barrier-free living and traffic safety?
• that the focus later shifted to demographic change, loneliness, neighborhood work, communal living on a rental basis and dementia?
• that the senior citizens' magazine "Herbstzeitlose" was founded in 1986 as a municipal medium? It was the mouthpiece of the senior citizens' advisory council for a long time, soon had a circulation of 8,000 and was distributed free of charge. Erlangen's senior citizens' magazine is now still published under private sponsorship.
• that the Senior Citizens' Advisory Council is often only associated with "benches and toilets", which, by the way, are of great importance for all generations, especially for people with disabilities? In fact, this was just one of the important projects. It was to last until 2017, when the disabled toilet at Hugenottenplatz was realized.
• that Helga Steeger cleverly nipped the recurring discussion about opening the pedestrian zone to cyclists all day in the bud by calling on senior citizens to protest?
• that GERT exists? The age stimulation suit is often used by schools for teaching purposes. Thanks to GERT, everyone can experience first-hand how difficult it can be to move around in old age.
• that it is thanks to the Seniors' Advisory Council that there is now a requirement for municipal events to be held only in accessible venues?
• that the advisory board organizes many events for 60+ on its own initiative or with partners in order to draw the public's attention to a wide range of problems? Living with dementia, annual reception, day of caring relatives, senior citizens speak out, senior citizens' café Ukraine, AWO district café Büchenbach-Nord, poetry festival in care homes, themed breakfast, joie de vivre instead of frustration with old age, film afternoons...