Resilience in an ageing Greater Manchester

This report aims to explore ideas around resilience together with its implications and opportunities for ageing communities, and how resilience can be built into the heart of communities. 

To fully understand resilience outside of individual responsibility, this report will focus on resilience of individuals, communities and institutions, as outlined in Paton and Johnson’s model of resilience (2006):

• Individual resilience (self-efficacy, sense of community, sense of place)
• Community resilience (reciprocal social support, collective efficacy) 
• Societal/institutional resilience (business continuity planning) resources required to support adaptation. 

Working in collaboration with the GM Resilience Partnership, the findings within this report will feed into the Greater Manchester Resilience Strategy to help inform future policy interventions. 

The Greater Manchester Resilience Strategy will aim to find solutions to the modern challenges the city region faces - from climate change, poverty and homelessness, to flooding and life-threatening emergencies. 

Greater Manchester is part of the 100 Resilient Cities programme, pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation. 100 Resilient Cities help cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century. 

Ambition for Ageing is working with colleagues at GMCA to explore these ideas around resilience through a number of structured conversations on the topic of ageing and resilience.