Reports

The Giving Voice to Grief Report outlines the development, delivery, and impact of two creative well-being workshops for people aged 50+.  The project explored grief and loss through voice, breath, and singing to explore grief and loss.  It presents survey data and participant feedback that demonstrate improved mood and reduced feelings of isolation alongside learning to inform future delivery.

The Living it Up in Later Life Report brings together insight based on a workshop held with our members at an event in October 2023.  The report details the key aspects that contribute to a good later life when our members discussed what really matter to them.  It also makes recommendations for what organisations and leaders can do to support this as well as detailing commitments that the GMOPN makes to help bring about a better later life for people aged 50+ across Greater Manchester

We are excited to publish our new report, Age Proud: Exploring Positive Ageing. Thank you to those of you who attended our Age Proud Event in October 2019 and contributed to our findings. Join us in building an Age Proud Movement in Greater Manchester! 

This report is based on the findings from the development survey we conducted in 2019 to enable us to find out priorities for older people in Greater Manchester. The findings from the survey will be used to guide our development going forward. 

This Guide to Participation is a report based on the findings of the GMOPN events held in Leigh and central Manchester, in May 2019. The report reflects wide-ranging discussions and makes recommendations to ensure good participation for older people in relation to attitude, process and practicalities.  Our report and recommendations will be used to inform future participation opportunities delivered by the GMOPN and shared with organisations working with or wanting to engage with older people to ensure that people are engaged with on their own terms and in a meaningful way.

Our Insights and Recommendations Booklet brings together all of the recommendations that we’ve developed through our events and reports, reflecting the views and priorities of older people in Greater Manchester.

We will continue to add to the document as we hold more events and produce new reports and recommendations. 

On 8 January 2019, the Greater Manchester Older People's Network held an event, to celebrate everything that the network has acheived so far and to set a campaigning agenda for the coming year. To find out more information about the event and to view photos, presentations and videos from the day, click to read the report below.

This is a report based on the findings of our Health and Social Care event held in May 2018. The report reflects wide-ranging discussions and makes recommendations for improvements and changes in order to ensure an age-friendly health and social care system. Some of the questions that came out of the workshop at the Health and Social Care event, but were not put forward to the panel members, were sent to the Health and Social Care Partnership. Click here to read their responses.

The report based on the findings from this conference makes 10 recommendations which we believe will support the development of a more age-friendly transport system in Greater Manchester. The Greater Manchester Older People’s Network would hope to continue to work with the combined authority, Transport for Greater Manchester and other providers to help translate some of these recommendations into action.

Our Housing Manifesto has come out of our own experience and a workshop with Ambition for Ageing’s Greater Manchester Older People’s Network, MACC and Care and Repair England who support action by older people’s groups to improve housing and related services for an ageing population. Participants were older people from across Greater Manchester who are keen to see their aspirations incorporated into housing and integration strategies across Greater Manchester.