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Age Friendly Communities in Practice

Pam Smith Chief Executive of Stockport Council GM Lead Chief Executive for Equalities, Fairness and Inclusion.

Welcome

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Session One: Introductions

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Session Two: Age-friendly good practice sharing

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Why is Ageing a Core Issue for GM?

Chris Phillipson Professor Sociology & Social Gerontology The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA)

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Why is ageing a core issue for GM? Challenges & Priorities for ‘Ageing in Place’

Chris Phillipson

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES MANCHESTER INSTITUTE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON AGEING THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER #agefriendlygm

• Why are age-friendly places important?
• Challenges for creating age-friendly places
• Key issues
• If we could do four things………..

AREAS FOR DISCUSSION

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• The influence of the neighbourhood:

80% of the time of people aged over 70 is spent at home

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the immediate environment; hence the importance of a high quality physical & social environment (Wahl et al., 2012)

• Neighbourhood as a source of inclusion (e.g. social

connections) and exclusion (e.g. poverty, crime)

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• Around 29% of people 65 + in GM have a Long-term

limiting illness where their day-to-day activities are ‘limited a lot’

• Substantial increase projected (2036) in people 65 + in

GM unable to manage one domestic task (41.5%) or

• ne self-care activity (34%) (Buckner et al., 2011)
• Substantial growth in single-person households over

the next two decades – especially amongst those 75 and over

Challenges for age-friendly places: population change

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• 36% of the population of GM live in a

neighbourhood among the most 20% deprived* nationally

• 22% of the population of GM live in a

neighbourhood among the most 10% deprived

• In Manchester, the majority of people (59%) live in

deprived neighbourhoods

• Unmet need for social care highest in deprived

areas*

Based on Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2015 (DCLG) Health Survey for England (2018)

Challenges for age-friendly places: economic deprivation

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• Many communities lack resources to support ageing

populations – age-friendly initiatives not a panacea

• Resources to enable ageing in place may need to be

increased to support those with cognitive and/or physical disabilities

• Ageing in place may be unattractive where the places

in which people are ageing are facing economic and social decline

• Decline in community nursing & social work and

rationing of home care– over 400,000 fewer people 65+ in the UK receiving care since 2009

Challenges for ageing in place for GM

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• Develop GM as a ‘social city’ – one which promotes

connections across different ethnic groups, communities and generations

• Develop partnerships which can tackle deep-rooted

poverty within communities

• Tackle loss of core services affecting communities
• Developing co-research with older people
• Encouraging innovations in community-based

support

Ageing in place: core issues for GM

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• Planning for greater diversity in ethnic identities in old

age will be a significant issue for realising an age- friendly GM.

• Strengthening support networks/advocacy groups

within the BAME community (e.g. the Manchester BME Network/Ethnic Health Forum).

• Developing specialist programmes to support carers

within the BAME community.

• Expanding programmes which tackle social isolation

amongst older people from minority ethnic groups (especially given the increase in people from BAME communities living alone)

Creating age-friendly places: core issues for GM

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• Encourage greater innovation amongst housing

associations e.g. co-housing, shared housing, intergenerational housing

• How can the principle of lifetime homes and

neighbourhoods be applied across the GM region?

• How will the need for housing vary within and

between different generations/age cohorts?

Creating age-friendly places: core issues for GM

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• Promoting neighbourhood networks:

developing informal networks to combat social exclusion and provide support to informal carers;

• Support co-operative enterprises: e.g. food co-
• ps, mobile food deliveries
• Housing interventions: assistance with

adaptations, review of housing options, help with jobs in the home, assistance with home safety

• Environmental interventions: promotion of

green spaces, importance of local parks, age- friendly shops and transportation

If we could do four things………..

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Please come back to the room for 11.45

Break

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Session Three: Good practice in more detail

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Please come back to the room for 1:40

Lunch

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Introducing a Community Shuttle Bus

• Dr. Mark Hammond

Research Associate Manchester School of Architecture (Ambition for Ageing)

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Manchester Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods

• Dr. Mark Hammond

Manchester School of Architecture m.hammond@mmu.ac.uk @MSAphase

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1. Partnership approach 2. Action planning methodology 3. Co-creating projects

Moston Miles Platting Burnag e Hulme and Moss Side City Centre

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Transport: St. Georges

• Located in area

with poor health, bad public transport, low car

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residents reporting missing appointments. Problems when given early appointments

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Learning from Marginalised Communities

Nicola Shore Engagement & Wellbeing Service Manager Age UK Oldham (Ambition for Ageing)

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Introduction to the Afternoon

John Hannen Programme Manager, Ambition for Ageing, GMCVO

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Developing a framework for age-friendly places

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Understanding

There is a clear identification of boundaries, a demographic profile of place, clear identification of relevant inequalities

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Insight

There should be mechanisms for local people to contribute, a recognition of barriers some will face in engagement and should not rely on a single means of engagement

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Planning

Using asset mapping techniques to identify strengths to be built on alongside the identification of key physical, economic and socio-cultural barriers to connection

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Promotion

People change when they see others changing – local institutions can motivate and mobilise

• thers by showing how they’re contributing to

making a place more age friendly.

Session Four: Developing a framework for Age-Friendly Places and Communities

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Thank you and next steps

Paul McGarry Head of the GM Ageing Hub Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

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Please take this time to catch-up and grab a drink

Refreshments and Networking

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