Age Friendly Manchester
Ageing Strategy Refresh
Project Manager:
Sophie Black
Programme Lead:
Dave Thorley
Senior Reporting Officer:
Paul McGarry
Secure
Safe
Informed
Influential
Healthy
OUR VISION:
We want to make our city a
better place in which to grow
older and in turn improve the
lives of older people.
Independent
Dignity
Respected
Happy
Manchester’s Older
Population
Background
• The existing Age Friendly Manchester (AFM) Strategy is
titled ‘Manchester: A Great Place to Grow Older 20102020’.
• However, the economic and social landscape of
Manchester is very different today to how it was in
2009, when the existing strategy was written.
• In the same period the concept of ‘age-friendly cities’
has gained considerable recognition, not only in the UK
but across the globe.
The Need
for an
Update…
The new ‘Our Manchester’
approach – a ten year strategy
launched in 2016, seen as the
city-wide vision
Research and collaboration
links with the University of
Manchester, Manchester
Metropolitan University,
MICRA and Architecture
School
World Health Organisation
Recognition
The Greater Manchester
Ageing Hub, created in 2016
as part of the GM devolution
deal.
Part of the UK Age Friendly
City network
Raising the profile of LGBT
Older People in Manchester,
documented in a report
focused on their needs.
We’re now ‘Age Friendly
Manchester’!
Featured in an OECD ‘Ageing
in Cities’ Report published in
2015
Our older population in
Manchester is growing in size
and proportion
What if a nightclub became a night-time
venue reserved for older people only?
What if a wearable badge were able to
interact with traffic lights to allow for
longer, more comfortable crossing
times?
What if an ageing market hall were reimagined as an ‘ageing enterprise
centre’?
What if an ‘elders only’ dance class went
dancing outdoors in a local park after
dark?
What if private gardens were reappropriated as urban allotments?
What if the communal lounge in a
sheltered housing complex were turned,
temporarily, into a poker-playing club?
Bringing the leisure-zones of the high
street from the outdoors in?
What if a parkour street running group
provided training specifically for an
older age group?
What if…
What Will Change
In Manchester as a result of the refreshed strategy?
• The lives of older residents across Manchester will improve.
• Benefits of the programme will be measured through the creation of an indicator set.
• The strategy visions and objectives will be included in wider key city strategies.
• Key agencies and organisations will agree to deliver the set of objectives.
• Visions will be supported and delivered by cultural organisations in Manchester, and its
universities.
• There will be further investment in Age Friendly projects and programmes.
• Act as a key document to demonstrate ‘who we are, what are our priorities are and where we
are going’ – the City’s key reference document on ageing.
• Reinforce the commitment AFM has to working with local community groups and older people,
to guarantee and provide a voice for older people in key decisions affecting them.
Structure
• In 2014, Manchester City Council and partners
published ‘A Research and Evaluation Framework for
Age-Friendly Cities’. This goes through the seven of
the eight World Health Organisation’s Age Friendly
domains, and offers a series of recommendations to
support the development of city-wide strategy.
• AFM intend to use the document’s recommendations
to shape the refreshed strategy. For example:
For the theme of HOUSING, the framework
recommends:
1. Secure city-wide commitment to provide GOOD
QUALITY and AFFORDABLE housing for older
people across the city.
2. Develop strategies that enable older people to
REMAIN LIVING INDEPENDENTLY in their own
homes and neighbourhoods
3. Ensure the city is signed up to commit all its new
housing developments to LIFETIME HOMES
STANDARDS.
How can we
translate these
recommendations
over to a
Manchesterfocused level?
How do (/can)
these
recommendations
translate:
On a policy level?
On an action and
implementation
level?
Indicators
work: how can
we measure
our success?
The strategy will further aim to include cases for:
Transformative Change
Emblematic Projects
• Areas identified for ‘transformative
change’ (active caring and learning
communities; Phillipson 2016),
could lead to developing business
cases to be included within the
appendices of the strategy.
• Here, we will aim to identify areas
where effective change can come
quickly; this draws attention to the
strategy and programme of work.
• Our work with partners will be
paramount to implementing
change.
• This offers the opportunity to bring
the strategy down to day-to-day
life, turning strategic visions into
reality, and will further show the
academic context to being put into
practice within Manchester.
Existing examples of emblematic projects and transformative change….
What we’ve achieved
Ambition
for Ageing
Older People’s
Nightclub
Old Moat Project
Collaboration
with MICRA
Manchester
MUCH
Design
Week
AF Charter
Buzz Age
Friendly
Networks
Links with
Southways
Housing
Audits of
Alexandra and
Heaton Park and
Rochdale Town
Centre
Community
Researchers
Intergenerational
Symposium
North City
Nomads
Timescales and Governance
• The strategy refresh will report to the
AFM Steering Group and Older
People’s Board, the Council’s Health
and Wellbeing Board and MHCC
Executive.
• The new strategy will be launched
around the 4th October to coincide
with International Older People’s Day.
March
Planning
Stages
April
Fieldwork
and research
conducted
May
Fieldwork
and research
conducted
June
Fieldwork
and research
conducted
July
August
September
October
Write Up and
sharing with
partners for
agreement
Finish the redrafting and
submit to
comms by
21st August
With comms
for design
and
production (6
weeks); plan
launch event
Launch to
coincide with
Int. Older
People’s Day
Age Friendly Manchester Board - 07/04/17
Sophie Black
Graduate Management Trainee, Age Friendly Manchester
Manchester Heath and Care Commissioning
0161 234 3178 | [email protected]