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Fit for Purpose! Celebrating Longer, HealthierLife and Getting ‘Engaged’:
or a look at a 5 year old strategy
Jill Manthorpe
London focus• Lower proportions of older
people than the rest of England
• Slower growth of numbers of older people: some parts have declining numbers
• One in three older Londoners live alone
• Fewer are in residential care, more get home support
• More in work• Growing ethnic diversity (12%
to 23% by 2021)• Inner London core: poorer,
worse health, more alone• Differences eg mortality: men
72-78 range, women 78-83.
Accounting for London differences
• Outward migration especially of older couples, and when people need care
• Inward migration of younger people
• High cost of living and of housing
• Excellence with scarcity e.g. of primary care health services
Making London an Age Friendly City
• London Older People’s Assembly
• London Better Government for Older people Network/ London Councils
• London Older People’s Strategy Group (200 groups in coalition)
• Greater London Forum• Role of Mayor of London• And here we are !
Valuing Older People: the Mayor of London’s Older People’s Strategy 2006Key points• Not just seeing older
people as a problem• Not just seeing ageing as
an issue for health and social services
• Setting up partnerships with government & commercial & community sectors
• Responsibilities for older people set out
• (all before the recession)
Mayor’s strategy (2)
Enabling older people to benefit from e-government & information technology (IT)
• By promoting access to IT, eg in older people’s centres
• Providing training• Making information easier
to get & understand• Using IT for enjoyable
purposes eg culture and leisure
Mayor’s Strategy (3)
Housing and homelessness
• London high housing costs – how to use capital with less risk, development of Housing Equity Release schemes
• Renovating and renewing sheltered housing that is not fit for purpose
• Lifetime home standard
• Preparing for climate change
Key messages
• ‘happy and proud’ : one views about living in London. There are many advantages and, like anywhere, it is home.
• Becoming an Age Friendly City requires greater partnership working – not just across policy makers & professionals but with older people.
• Did the Strategy make a difference?
Did the Strategy make a difference?
• On the ‘agenda’• Reminder of the ‘grey’
vote• Multi-faceted• Potential for new
alliances?• Reminder to ‘Mind the
Gap’• Holding to account