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Our Age Friendly Journey

Our Age Friendly Journey

Status: Completed

Evaluated

Salford United Kingdom
Print this page City population: 23390011% over 60Practice started in 2019

Summary

The short easy to read leaflet summarises the tangible achievements for Salford since we embarked on our Age-Friendly journey.

Salford started using the Word Health Organisation model back in 2014 as a way to bring together some ideas and projects which were important to older people’s health and wellbeing. These activities and events have been recognized as valuable local assets within Salford’s Integrated Care programme for older people, and it was important that their collective value continued to be recognized.

Salford’s older residents used the WHO framework to develop four local visions against which the work in Salford over the past four years has been developed.

Key facts

Main target group: Older people in general

Sector(s): Health, Information and communication, Labor

Other sector(s): community engagement

Desired outcome for older people:
Learn, grow and make decisions

Other issues the Age-friendly practice aims to address:
  • Ageing in place
  • Healthy behaviours (e.g. physical activity)
  • Intergenerational activities
  • Inclusion
  • Participation
  • Technologies

Contact details

Name: Bernadette Elder

Email address: bernadette@inspiringcommunitiestogether.co.uk

Age-friendly practice in detail (click to expand):

Engaging the wider community

Project lead: Civil Society Organisation

Others involved in the project:
  • Local authorities
  • Civil Society Organisation
  • Older People’s Association
  • Volunteers
  • Research institution

Older people’s involvement: Older people were involved in the age-friendly practice at multiple or all stages

Moving forward

Has the impact of this age-friendly practice been analysed: Yes

Was the impact positive or negative:
Positive

Evaluation report: Age-Friendly-booklet-final-Nov-19.pdf

Looking back

Challenges:
The past four years has enabled a strong multi agency partnership to develop building on the voice of older people. Engagement, voice and influence takes longer than expected and this can at times bring challenges and opportunities wider then the work set out. By spending time listening to the voice of older people we have been able to manage the balance between developing new ideas and working to support a strategic city wide plan to supporting older people to age well in Salford. The commitment of partners from a wide variety of sectors as experts in their own work, providers of resources and delivers of activities has been one of the great achievements of this work, but this would not have been possible without the support and leadership of the multi agency Age Friendly Salford team.