Do you have experience of accessing or supporting someone who has accessed mental health services as an older adult?
Join our network and use your experiences to influence the transformation of services!
If you would like to learn more and join as a network member, please email: gmopn@macc.org.uk or call 0161 834 9823.
Are you an older person aged 50 or over living in Greater Manchester?
Join Greater Manchester Older People’s Mental Health Network at one of their inspiring and creative poetry workshops where they will be exploring thoughts and feelings through poetry, whilst learning from each other in a safe and friendly space, and writing some great poetry too.
Sky is encouraging older people’s organisations and charities in Greater Manchester and around the UK to apply to set up and run a ‘Sky Up Digital Hub’ and receive free public Wi-Fi for three 
years and devices. The digital hubs provide support to people over the age of 65 who may lack skills and confidence to get online safely, offering them training and advice to make the most of online services and communication apps.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Good Things Foundation have joined forces to produce a brand-new practical guide to support more people to get online and benefit from doing 
digital in later life.
This research is being carried out by members of the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG) based at the University of Manchester. The group have been involved in a range of 
projects over the past two decades, developing innovative research on the lives of older people living in areas where there is often a mix of low incomes and poor housing.
Manchester Care and Repair help older, disabled and vulnerable people to stay safe, warm and independent in their own homes for as long as possible.
If you are aged 60 or over, you can receive a Home Energy Assessment.
The offer:
Age Friendly Manchester has partnered with national older person’s charity Independent Age to produce a new printed information guide called ‘Winterwise – a guide to keeping well this winter’.
Designed for older residents across Greater Manchester, the guide brings together key information on cost of living support and how to stay warm, stay safe and stay well.
Re-engage aim to alleviate loneliness and isolation in people aged 75+ by providing free Tea Parties once a month on a Sunday. Volunteer drivers collect the guests from their homes then drop them 
back again after they have enjoyed tea/coffee, cake and a chat. Re-engage also offer a Call Companion service for those people who could just do with a chat on the phone rather than leaving their home.
Age UK Manchester’s Scam Awareness sessions offer information, advice and support regarding scams to people aged 50+ in the city of Manchester. Community talks are delivered to groups to 
raise awareness of scams and how to protect yourself from them as well as one to one advice sessions can be tailored to the client’s needs, giving information on:
On 14 December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designated October 1 as the United Nations’ International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) (resolution 45/106). This was preceded by initiatives such as the Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing, which was adopted by the 1982 World Assembly on Ageing and endorsed later that year by the UN General Assembly.