Driven by the ageing process taking place in the Basque Autonomous Region (BAR), the ‘Age-Friendly Cities and Communities’ (AFCC) initiative has become a major political reference for the development of ageing policies in the territory. This article addresses this subject by means of a qualitative study that analyses how the three main capital cities in the region are implementing age-friendly strategies, with a focus on co-creation and co-production processes. The article examines the challenges they are currently facing in the development of the aforementioned participatory processes. Our research suggests that political involvement, even if necessary, is meaningless if the strategy is not embedded in the work of influential stakeholders. Moreover, the success of communities in becoming more age friendly will, to a large extent, depend on whether older people, including those facing social exclusion, become involved as key actors in future research and policies around age-friendly developments.

在巴斯克自治区 (BAR) 老龄化进程的推动下，“关爱老人的城市和社区”(AFCC) 倡议已成为该地区制定老龄化政策的主要政治参考。本文通过一项定性研究来解决这个问题，该研究分析了该地区三个主要首府城市如何实施关爱老人的战略，重点是共同创造和共同生产过程。本文审视了他们目前在上述参与过程的发展过程中面临的挑战。我们的研究表明，如果战略没有嵌入到有影响力的利益相关者的工作中，即使有必要，政治参与也是毫无意义的。此外，社区在变得对老年人更友善方面的成功在很大程度上将