The role of faith-based organisations in developing age-friendly communities
A policy innovation partnership between public agencies and faith-based organisations in Greater Manchester.
Faith-based spaces are important community assets. They are a critical form of social infrastructure and often already provide important services to older people. Yet they have limited formal engagement with the age-friendly cities agenda. By working closely with Age-Friendly Manchester through a secondment scheme, this project explores the overlap of healthy ageing and faith in the context of age-friendly cities.
It investigates how older people are using and shaping faith spaces; how they enact cultural heritage in these spaces; and how intersecting aspects such as ethnicity, gender, social class, inform their participation.
The final report from this research is available here: Developing age-friendly communities to support healthy ageing: The role of faith spaces as social infrastructure.
Principle investigator
Research team
Funder
Partner organisations
Secondment partner
- Age-Friendly Manchester (Manchester City Council)
Other partner organisations
The project also involves the following partners:
- Centre for Ageing Better
- Greater Manchester Ageing Hub
- Greater Manchester Faith and Belief Advisory Panel
- Greater Manchester Older People's Network
- Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation
- Greater Manchester BAME Network
- Manchester BME Network
- Lincoln Theological Institute
- Creative Manchester
Contact information
- Dr Luciana Lang
E-mail: luciana.lang@manchester.ac.uk