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Community Transport Association - Tuesday 2 October 2018
Elaine Unegbu & Sophie Black
Age-Friendly Manchester:
Making our City a Great Place
to Grow Older

2. A Tough Patch…
• 22% of Manchester’s
population is 50 or older.
• Healthy life expectancy 7
years less than UK
average.
• 36% of older residents are
income deprived.
• Highest death rates from
cancer, heart disease,
stroke and lung disease.
• 44% of older residents rent
their home.

3. Age-Friendly
Manchester
The AFM Programme sets
out the vision of
Manchester as a place
where older people are
more empowered, healthy
and happy.

5. Involvement of
older people
• Manchester Older
People’s Board
• Older People’s Forum
• Good neighbour
groups
• Age-Friendly locality
Networks
• Culture Champions
• Consultation

6. Derek Taylor’s Top
Ten Tips

7. Here are Derek’s top ten tips
which helped him to feel less
lonely.
1. Make an effort to make new
friends.
2. Join a hobbies club.
3. Visit your local community or
resources centre and find out
what’s on offer.
4. Learn to use the computer at
your local library.
5. Seek help from your local social
services.
6. Consider taking in a lodger or a
paying guest.
7. Use your telephone more often to
contact people; don’t wait for
people to contact you.
8. Contact friends and relatives you
haven’t spoken to recently.
9. Make friends with your neighbours.
10. Do voluntary work if you are able
to.

8. Loneliness
• 8.5% of older people
‘always’ feel lonely.
• Loneliness can increase
the risk of premature
death by a quarter.
• 3.7 times more likely to
be lonely if you are in
poor health compared
with older people in good
health.
• 50% of young people
with depression are
referred to mental health
services. Only 6% of older
people are.

9. Manchester Cares
Community networks
of young professionals
and older neighbours
hanging out and
helping one another.
Social clubs, Love Your
Neighbour, Pro-active
Outreach and
Community
fundraising.

10. The North City
Nomads
A social membership
group of over 800
residents of North
Manchester.

11. Age-friendly Neighbourhoods
• Tackling loneliness is
about building
communities with the
social and physical
infrastructure that can
help build resilience.
• 80% of the time of older
people aged over 70 is
spent at home or the
immediate environment.
Age-friendly
neighbourhood
Mobility
Indepen-
dence
Health

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Elaine Unegbu
Chair of the Manchester Older
People’s Board
Sophie Black
Age-Friendly Manchester
Population Health & Wellbeing, MHCC
s.black1@manchester.gov.uk