In August 2012, Liverpool’s elected mayor Joe Anderson signed a pledge signalling the city’s commitment to being an age-friendly city. Liverpool were accepted as a member of the Global Network in 2014.
As lead organisation, Liverpool City Council, will undertake a further five-year planning, implementation and evaluation programme, with local people involved in assessing Liverpool’s strengths and gaps based on their own experiences of living in the city.
We are currently having a BIG CONVERSATION with people to understand what the city’s older resident’s views are about their neighbourhoods. We’re also asking the city what’s important to them. This can then inform how we prioritise our actions, and how we work with partners across the city. The health, charitable and voluntary sector will assist us to ensure we have the broadest reach and widest conversations possible.

To assist this we have:
· Appointment of Cabinet Member for Inclusivity and Accessibility.
· Appointment of officer for Inclusive Design.
· Appointment of 2 Mayoral Leads for Older People.

Some initial plans include:
· A multi-million pound plan to transform social care for people living with dementia in Liverpool. The work includes a £7.8m dementia hub on South Parade in Speke and the £8.2m Venmore Dementia Centre in Anfield. Each centre will provide 60 bed spaces, along with state-of-the-art care facilities for people with dementia and other long-term residential and nursing care needs.
· A commitment to the requiring a minimum % of new build residential properties are Life Time Homes. The Lifetime Homes Standard is a series of sixteen design criteria intended to make homes more easily adaptable for lifetime use at minimal cost.
· Integrated Community Care Teams, to support older people with long-term conditions so that they can better manage their health, stay well and avoid hospital admission.
· Work tirelessly with NHS partners to reduce health inequalities for those across the city.
· Development of Technology solutions:
5G internet accessibility across a corridor of the city benefitting some of the more deprived areas where internet access is known to be low.
Push to talk – currently bring isolated carers together via the telephone
Med dispenser – one way camera connecting people with pharmacists
More detail to be added shortly
· Liverpool In Work to work with DWP’s Fuller Working Lives Team
· Improve information about accessible buildings, starting with a pilot in St George’s quarter.
· Development of an accommodation strategy, specifically to consider how to meet the needs of older people.

More details about the accommodation strategy:
We aim to secure the best quality of life for our older residents both now and in the future. This means delivering a range of housing that enables older people to live fulfilling lives and enjoy good health in attractive homes that meet their needs and allow them to retain their independence as they age.  Actions to achieve this include:
a. expanding the provision of extra care housing by a minimum of 500 units and, therefore, reducing the use of residential care because people tell us that’s their (preference);
b. developing a wider range of housing and care options to support people living with dementia;
c. working with housing partners to ensure that sheltered housing is an attractive option in the future for some older people;
d. promoting the development of for sale retirement housing options, by housing associations and private developers;
e. promoting the application of HAPPI3 design principles [dementia design] in the development of new older people’s specialist housing and mainstream market and social housing;
f. aligning the use of housing assets including extra care and sheltered housing with local health and social care resources [including aiding discharge from hospital via step-down and transitional care] and voluntary activity; and
g. ensuring that information is readily and easily available so that people can make their own choices and decisions, particularly those who will self-fund.

After engaging with the city’s residents, this plan will only grow!