Five-year plan revealed for “age- friendly Manchester”

Manchester City Council has published its new Age-Friendly Strategy, underlining the city’s direction of travel to push forward initiatives that understand and meet the needs of its older population.

Called Manchester: a city for life 2023-2028, the strategy builds on the foundations of age-friendly work ongoing in the city for the last two decades. It sets out the vision and priorities for Manchester to continue as an age-friendly city where people can age happily with equality, respect, and independence and where they have a voice in the life of the city and are economically, physically, and socially active. The strategy will focus on four themes: being heard and age equality; age-friendly neighbourhoods where we can all age in place; age-friendly services that support us to age well; and age-friendly work skills and money.

Developed through a consultation involving both the service and voluntary sectors – as well as the Age Friendly Manchester Older People’s Board – the strategy has been designed in a way which includes older people’s voices and experience at the heart of it.

Councillor Thomas Robinson said: “Our older residents are central to our culture and resilience as a city. We’re determined to celebrate that through this strategy.”