Involving marginalised groups of older people in age-friendly programmes: lessons from the Ambition for Ageing programme

• Published in: Reimagining Age-Friendly Communities pp. 85 - 99
• Main Authors: Lang, Luciana, Yarker, Sophie
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol, UK Policy Press 28.06.2024
• Subjects: Minority communities; Diversity; Inequalities; Age-friendly programmes; Co-production
• ISBN: 9781447368557; 144736855X
• DOI: 10.51952/9781447368571.ch005

This chapter discusses how age-friendly programmes can advance social and spatial justice in cities through their involvement of older people from marginalised groups. It draws on the experience of the Ambition for Ageing programme, a programme of work aimed at creating age-friendly communities in Greater Manchester, to show how an explicit focus on issues of (in)equalities can help age-friendly programmes in reaching out to and involving older people living in low-income neighbourhoods as well as those from minority communities of identity and experience. It explores how the Ambition for Ageing programme did this through a focus on co-production, adopting a ‘test and learn’ approach and by reconsidering the different geographies at which older people experience marginalisation. It offers important lessons for future age-friendly programmes working with diverse communities.