Age Friendly Strategy and Action Plan 2025 -2030

The Age Friendly Strategy and Action Plan bring together key services with a focus on prevention to increase the number of years people spend in good health. By doing so, it seeks to reduce or delay the need for reactive services. We know that around 80% of what influences our health and ageing well is outside of health and care.

The World Health Organisation's Age Friendly Communities Framework sets out the domains (topics) that local places can address to improve structures and services to meet people's needs in later life. This provides a clear framework of 'what works' to promote ageing well. These broadly cover the wider determinants of health, including social factors, employment and the built environment required to support ageing well."

Our Topic (Domain) Areas: The following six topic areas have been adapted for Leeds from the Age Friendly City domains developed by the World Health Organisation.

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Active, included and respected

Encompassing several areas to promote inclusion and participation in public and community life by:

Raising the profile of Age Friendly Leeds to promote a positive attitude to ageing, incorporating intergenerational work.

Enabling older people in Leeds to have the opportunities, freedom and support to live the life they choose.

Working with older people across the city to capture a diverse range of voices, with a view to shaping policy and action.

Supporting older people to engage with a diverse citywide cultural offer as participants, audience, and creative practitioners.

Providing opportunities and resources for social and intergenerational connection within welcoming community hubs and library spaces in the heart of communities.

Providing volunteering opportunities in the city that are inclusive and equitable for people in later life.

Ensuring Older People in Leeds have equal opportunity to use digital tools, technology, and services in the right way for them.

Ensuring older people in Leeds are safe and feel safe in their homes, in the streets, and the places they go.

Employment and learning

Supporting people in later life in the workplace, improving access to the workplace and to stay in work by:

Supporting people aged 50+ back into the workplace, to stay in work, explore career change and upskilling.

Supporting people aged 50+ to have access to education and learning opportunities.

Hiring and developing the 50+ workforce within Leeds City Council.

Supporting the health, wellbeing and benefits of the 50+ workforce within Leeds City Council.

Promoting an age positive culture and flexible working within Leeds City Council and wider.

Healthy and independent ageing

Supporting people in later life to live healthy and independent lives in the community by:

Further developing ways for people in later life to keep active and stay healthy, with a focus on supporting people to age well in more deprived areas and ethnically diverse communities.

Developing Leeds as a mentally healthy city for people in later life.

Promoting financial inclusion in order to support the financial health and wellbeing of Older People in Leeds.

Sustaining community-based approaches that empower people in later life to live independently, to thrive and age well, engaging in their neighbourhoods.

Housing

Ensuring housing supports people to stay living independently, comfortably and safely in later life:

Increasing public and agency awareness of information and advice on housing options with preventative focus.

Improving housing quality and access to adaptations to support independence.

Increasing provision of Age Friendly housing options including accessible new housing and specialist housing with support.

Public and civic spaces

Support people in later to access and enjoy outdoor spaces in Leeds by:

Supporting older people to access and enjoy outdoor spaces in Leeds by ensuring that parks and green spaces are accessible for everyone who wants to use them.

Supporting older people to access and enjoy outdoor spaces in Leeds by providing and promoting a wide range of opportunities for people to get the health benefits of spending time in green spaces.

Supporting older people to access and enjoy outdoor spaces in Leeds by working with communities: Having a positive, open, helpful and collaborative approach to delivering the Parks and Countryside service.