Valuing Older People (VOP)

Introduction

The Valuing Older People partnership is an initiative to improve life for older people in Manchester involving a number of different services, organisations, agencies and most importantly, older Manchester residents.

It was launched in 2003 by Manchester City Council, NHS Manchester and community and voluntary organisations. The first strategy 'Quality of Life Strategy for Manchester' was produced in 2004 and since then the city has made important and significant progress in many areas, as outlined in the Update Report 2004-08.

There is still work to be done and the revised strategy, Manchester : A Great Place to Grow Older 2010-2020 presents a vision of Manchester as a place where older people are more empowered, healthy and happy.

See a summary of Manchester : A Great Place to Grow Older 2010 - 2020

The VOP partnership recently held a working policy conference in partnership with the Beth Johnson Foundation and the Centre for Social Gerontology at Keele University on 1 November 2010.  For more information on the conference and to download conference materials, visit the news section below. 

Below you can also find out more about:

• News and events for older people
• How you can get involved with VOP
• Projects VOP is working on