Project lead: Civil Society Organisation

• Local authorities
• Civil Society Organisation
• Social or health care provider
• Volunteers
• Research institution

How collaboration worked: Salford Age Friendly Programme has been developed as a city wide offer to enable older adults to age well in Salford. The collaboration is wide reaching and ranges from Salford University, Housing Providers, voluntary sector organisations, health care professions both primary and clinical all working along side older people. The model was developed in response to the requirement for the city to deliver a more integrated approach to addressing health and social care for older people and now sits within the Salford Locality Plan under the Age Well theme. The model is funding through Salford Clinical Commissioning Group and Salford city Council (Public Health) and commissioned out to voluntary sector partnership led by Inspiring Communities Together (a place based charity), Age UK Salford and Salford CVS (delivers the volunteer element of the programme) Governance is established a city wide and neighbourhood level reporting to Salford Health and Wellbeing Board at Salford Alliance brings together the wide ranging partnership and at a neighbourhood level the Salford Older Person Network explores what the priorities from a neighbourhood perspective.

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

Details on older people’s involvement: Older people are the drivers of the Age Friendly practise: Providing voice and sense checking of the work through the Older Person Network Co-designing new ways of working such as the development of our active ageing work Co- delivers of activities such as our ambition for ageing small grants project

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

Was the impact positive or negative:
Positive

Please share with us what you found in detail:
Between 2016 and 2019 Salford older people used the WHO domains to create their own four visions for Salford Vision one (WHO domains outdoor spaces, buildings, transport and housing) over 700 older people engaged in the development of strategic plans for Salford including housing and transport, 7 local green and growing networks were established and over 2,000 older people developed their digital skills Vision two (WHO domains community support and health services, communications and information) Older people improved their knowledge about malnutrition and hydration, over 2,500 wellbeing conversations have taken place and 300 older people have attended a six steps to preventing falls session. Vision three (WHO domains respect and social inclusion and social participation) Help older people become more connected as over 63% of people involved in new activities reported they live alone and over 6,000 hours of volunteering has been recorded by older people Vision four (WHO domains civic participation and employment) 60 older people regularly attend the Salford Older Person Network and shared their lived experience to help make a difference to lives in Salford.

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

Feedback:
Older people have provided feedback as can be seen in the video provided. The approach developed in Salford has enabled older people to feel part of a collective moment for change and feel supported to make a difference

Expansion plans:
We continue to build on our learning each year and develop an annual programme of work with older people

Reflections:
Our Age Friendly Salford work has been a journey of learning both for the city of Salford and for the older people of Salford. By working as a collaborative partnership Salford has been able to better understand what is important to enable older people to age well and older people have been supported to have a voice and developed their own knowledge and skills to look after they own health and wellbeing. This programme of work has taken time to develop and evolve and continues to do so as we continue to learn from each other. It is important that for Age Friendly programmes to work there needs to be financial investment and so element of freedom to change priorities and outcomes – not always an easy task when work is contacted

Challenges:
Building partnerships and relationships takes time and at the start of the work we had no investment to provide funds to support ideas or test new ways of working. Through raising the profile of the work through securing WHO status this gave the work a commitment form the city to invest.