
2015
The Life of the City: Manchester City Centre as an age friendly neighbourhood
Manchester City Council
£17,000
Most larger cities in the UK are home to very few older people, yet globally cities are recommended as ideal places for people to live as they grow older. This project was commissioned by Manchester City Council to explore how the Manchester city centre operates as a place to live for older people, investigating what ‘neighbourhoods’ exist and what they are like. It investigated a complimentary City Centre context to the World Health Organisation’s Age-Friendly Cities neighbourhood-based implementation programmes in Old Moat, Cheetham, Crumpsall, Whalley Range and Chorlton which explore how place-based whole system public health interventions can be designed and implemented. The report provided key recommendations to Manchester City Council which informed their Age Friendly strategy.
Key questions
- Is the city centre a suitable place for people to choose to live as they grow older?
- How do neighbourhoods in and close to the city centre serve the needs of different groups of older people?
- How can the city centre provide opportunities for Active Ageing?
- How can the needs of different ages and lifestyles be accommodated in different areas?