
2015
Old Moat: Creating an Age-Friendly Neighbourhood
International exemplar for Age-Friendly Planning
White, S., Hammond, M., 2018. ‘From representation to active ageing in a Manchester neighbourhood: designing the age-friendly city’. In Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: A Global Perspective, Policy Press.
With a foreword by John Beard, Director of the Ageing Programme at the World Health Organisation (WHO), this important book shares a comprehensive survey of strategies for developing age-friendly communities, with an emphasis on how interventions can enable older people themselves to co-produce age-friendly policies and practices.
This chapter brings to an international audience the underpinning theoretical and methodological approaches to the design and implementation of whole system place-based public health interventions across the life course. It disseminates extensive design-research work on ageing and spatial inclusion through a case-study analysis of a project uniquely testing and extending the WHO Age Friendly Cities design guidance in a specific neighbourhood context working directly with older people to promote ‘active ageing’ in the ward of Old Moat in Manchester City. It sets out a post-hoc realist implementation evaluation of the Old Moat project in terms of a non-representational theoretical analysis of the co-produced action planning process as a capability model. This Old Moat pilot programme coined the term ‘Age Friendly Neighbourhoods’ which is now a central terminology of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Age Friendly Strategy.
The programme reports and co-created delivery materials, such as ‘Old Moat in an Age Friendly City report’ are widely cited as best practice in practitioner circles e.g at the UN in 2016. The Old Moat implementation approach has been applied and evaluated in a range of other contexts including the Manchester Age Friendly Neighbourhoods project as part of the £10m Big Lottery funded ‘Ambition for Ageing’ Programme which explored the application of key aspects of the Old Moat pilot to 24 neighbourhoods across Greater Manchester.
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With a foreword by John Beard, Director of the
Ageing Programme at the World Health Organisation (WHO), this important book shares a comprehensive
survey of strategies for developing age-friendly communities, with an emphasis
on how interventions can enable older people themselves to co-produce
age-friendly policies and practices.