Developing age-friendly communities in an emergent post-pandemic world: Phase 1 Stakeholder Focus Group Summary Report

This summary report details an overview of the interim findings from the 'Developing age-friendly communities in an emergent post-pandemic world' research project. The work is funded by The Dunhill Medical Trust and is being completed by a partnership led by the University of Salford with Inspiring Communities Together and Manchester Metropolitan University.The work investigates the legacy impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on older people’s social connections and aims to develop evidence-based recommendations on how older people can continue to be supported in place.This report presents a summary of the findings from Phase 1, which comprised a series of focus groups and interviews with key community stakeholders, groups, and service providers. These were organisations from across the City of Salford that either support older people, provide community services that include older people or develop policies that support older people