Tag design for life

Healthy Life Expectancy diagram showing the relationship between Housing, Services, Economy, Environment and Transport

Story of Stockport

This project explored the use of data analysis and representation to understand the spatial implications of structural discrimination across Stockport Borough.
Screenshot of the Ageing in Place Pathfinder webpage

Greater Manchester Ageing in Place Pathfinder

The Ageing in Place Pathfinder is a complex whole system public health intervention focussed on the role of place across the life course with an emphasis on later life. 
Cover of the Creating Age-Friendly Developments guidance

Creating Age-Friendly Developments

Creating Age-Friendly Developments is a guide for developers, designers and policymakers setting out 62 considerations for ensuring new residential developments and urban regeneration initiatives can better serve the needs and aspirations of older people.
Cover of the Design for Life ebook

Design for Life Age Friendly Urban Design guidance

This public facing report curated by Dr Hammond sets out co-produced guidance informed by the DfL Ageing in place Research programme. It extends the Design for Life Manifesto for urban ageing into specific supplementary planning guidance for new developments in Greater Manchester.
Cover of the Rightsizing report

Rightsizing: Reframing older people’s housing choices

The rightsizing project responded to the observation that a potentially very large number of older people were living in unsuitable accommodation for later life or had an expressed preference to move home but very few (<4%) every year did actually move house and of those less than half moved into smaller properties i.e it is incorrect to assume that older people seek to ‘downsize’.

Manchester Age Friendly Neighbourhoods

The Manchester Age Friendly Neighbourhoods project explored the systematic implementation of the Old Moat Age Friendly Neighbourhood prototype for co-produced place-based urban planning for health across the life course through creating 5 resident led multi-stakeholder age friendly partnerships in deprived wards across Manchester City.

Cheetham Hill Urban Living Lab

The Cheetham Hill Urban Living Lab built on the Old Moat project by exploring the application of the WHO AFCC guidance to a district centre situation with a focus round community cohesion and healthy living.