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FoL’s Housing Older Londoners report summarises our Ageing Cities work, exploring how London can improve older people’s standard of living through better policy, housing and neighbourhoods.
Our latest guest Spotlight is from Matt Lally, a specialist in urban planning and placemaking at Arup. Matt recently returned from an assignment in Sydney researching age friendly cities and shares his findings.
Woodside Square in Muswell Hill is an exemplar in designing older people’s housing for easy adaptation and making downsizing attractive. Find out more from our field trip here.
Future of London’s Ageing Cities programme identifies opportunities to share experiences and innovation for supporting our ageing population.
The middle market for older people’s housing in London is significant and largely untapped. Our 8 November roundtable asked what stakeholders can do to support innovation into this space? Read the summary here.
Healthy placemaking is an essential part of delivering age-friendly cities, but it requires robust cross-sector collaboration. Planning can improve public health by promoting active travel, enhancing air quality, delivering and protecting open space. Social isolation, a key issue for our ageing population, can be reduced by supporting social interaction in town … Read more
In our latest spotlight we look at two examples of housing for older women in Barnet, a co-housing scheme and traditional alms houses.