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Working Inclusively to Make Communities Age-Friendly

12 Apr 2019 - 11:48 by michelle.foster

The Ambition for Ageing Equalities Board has launched a new briefing titled Working Inclusively to Make Communities Age-Friendly. The briefing asserts that equality, diversity and inclusivity are core to understanding and reducing social isolation, and emphasises key ways to embed inclusion in building age-friendly communities: Ambition for Ageing

• Knowledge needed for inclusive age-friendliness: It is necessary to have a good understanding of communities themselves, and of the wider world, to ensure that equalities-driven work to reduce social isolation has the best chance of being effective.

• Ways of working that deepen inclusion: To fully include marginalised groups, we need to make sure that we design genuinely inclusive opportunities that are open to all, as well delivering targeted approaches.

• Working with an equalities mindset: When equalities working is seen as more than meeting obligations under the Equalities Act 2010, then community work to reduce social isolation is more effective

This briefing will be of interest to those working to tackle loneliness and social isolation of older people from marginalised communities, and those concerned that community and neighbourhood-level work reaches people in marginalised communities.

The briefing is available to download from the Ambition for Ageing website at: www.ambitionforageing.org.uk/inclusiveneighbourhoods.

For more information about the Equalities Board, visit: http://lgbt.foundation/ambition-for-ageing or email: [email protected]

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