Making London Age Friendly City: Next Step Conference, 6 March 2020. Following our recent very well attended event in partnership with the London Metropolitan University on 6th March 2020, see the speaker’s presentations from the day below:
Chris Walsh, Age-Friendly London have your say
Chris Walsh, Involving Diverse Older People
Margit Physant, Age-Friendly Healthcare & Toilets
John Bent, Age-Friendly London Changing Narrative
Kathleen Egan, AgeUK Making London Age-Friendly
Peter Denton, Age-Friendly street Audits 2020
Centre for Ageing Better, Age-Friendly best practice
Charles King, Age-Friendly Transport and Streets
Ellen Lebethe, Age-Friendly Housing Proposal
Making London Age Friendly: Have your Say Conference, 10 January 2020. Following our recent attended event hosted in partnership by London Metropolitan University on the 10 January 2020, see the speaker’s presentations from the day below:
Chris Walsh, Age-friendly have your say introduction
Kate Jopling, Reducing loneliness and Social Isolation
Bridgit Sam-Bailey, Inclusive Age-Friendly
Chelsea Fleming, Age-friendly community engagement
Milo Crummie, Age-friendly environment and building
Making London Age Friendly Conference, 10 May 2019. Following our recent very well attended event in partnership with the Greater London Authority (GLA) on 10 May 2019, see the speaker’s presentations from the day below:
Paul McGarry, Engagement and Participation of Older People
Spencer Thompson, How Age Friendly Is London?
Anthea Tinker, London’s Journey as an Age Friendly City
Diversity Conference, 22 February 2019. The speakers’ presentations from the conference are available to download:
DOWNLOAD THE FULL RECOMMENDATIONS
Jim Glennon, Confidence to Care
Bridgit Sam-Bailey, Invisible and Unsung
Judy Bolton, The Windrush Generation
Nigel Keohane, Disability employment London
Health & Wellbeing Conference, 22 October 2018 The speakers’ presentations from the conference are available to download:
DOWNLOAD THE FULL RECOMMENDATIONS
Lotty Davies, Understanding your risk of dementia
Ben Wilkins, Staying Active ? Why we need to remain physically active
Kieron Sparrowhawk, Building Cognitive Resilience for Independence and Control
Anna Watkins and Sheila Nicholson, Senior Co-housing – A Different Way of Living
Andy Nazer, Staying Connected – Campaign to End Loneliness
Prof Jose Iparraguirre, Age UK?s Wellbeing Index
Life Long Learning Conference, 23 May 2018 The speakers’ presentations from the conference are available to download:
DOWNLOAD THE FULL RECOMMENDATIONS
Chris Walsh, overview of older people and Life Long Learning
Prof Alex Murdock, Life Long Learning ? the changing perspective of older people and the differences in lifestyle choice
Ian Tucknott, Long Learning ? the Future of Adult Education
Hilary Farnworth, Curiosity and Later Life Challenges ? the Ransacker Experience
Eleanor van den Heuvel, Learning for Ageing Well
John Miles, Active Minds ? Still Learning? Why we?re setting up a campaign.
Digital Inclusion Amongst Older Londoners, 22 February 2018 The full recommendations from the conference are available to download:
The recommendations are grouped under five broad themes:
- Helping older Londoners to develop and improve their digital skills
- Training and research
- Co-designing digital services
- Connectivity and security
- Transport services
Employment and Economic Development for Older Londoners
There were presentations on The DWP’s Strategy for Older Workers by David Anderson, on Universal Credit by Andrea and Corrine Gregory from DWP, on the Economic and Employment Contribution of Older Londoners by Chris Walsh of PAiL & Wise Age, and on The Benefits of Older Londoners to London’s Economy by Gordon Deuchars from Age UK London.
See attached the submission that we have made to the Mayor’s office.
Positive Ageing Response to the London Housing Strategy
You can now download a full summary of our recommendations from the conference here.
Positive Ageing Response to the Mayor’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
Following our successful consultation event at City Hall on 1 September 2017, click here to read Positive Ageing in London’s response to the Mayor’s vision for diversity and inclusion based on older Londoners’ feedback.