Design for Life
Transforming the lives of older people by strengthening and connecting community action, strategic policy and local planning.
The Greater Manchester Healthy Ageing Ecosystem and its relationship between research, policy and practice are recognised by the World Health Organisation as an international exemplar. The global challenge of health inequity requires us to find ways of simultaneously engaging multiple systems through a wide range of stakeholders across the scales of international governance to local, interpersonal action. Greater Manchester is leading the way in both understanding and action with its enduring efforts around whole system place-based public health interventions addressing health across the life-course.
Design for Life marks an enduring collaboration between National, International and Regional partners to develop approaches to place based public health programmes addressing health inequity across the life course. Using architectural research to convene interdisciplinary expertise and curate partnership working around both policy creation and place planning Design for Life has emerged in order to consolidate and capture the expertise in implementation of ageing in place and age friendly neighbourhood programmes and planning. It is used as an innovation accelerator where prototypes have been designed and tested and then implemented in different contexts and translated into tools and guidance.