Transcript Getting older in London (ppt, 1.16 MB)

Fit for Purpose!
Celebrating Longer, Healthier
Life and Getting ‘Engaged’:
or a look at a 5 year old strategy
Jill Manthorpe
[email protected]
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 2006
Key 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 egovernment & 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