An Older, Wiser Sheffield
The Sheffield First Strategy for an Ageing Population
The age profile of Sheffield is changing. The number of
older people in the city is rapidly increasing and the number
of younger people reducing. The Sheffield First Partnership
Strategy for an Ageing Population has been developed to
coordinate action in the city to respond to this change.
It sets out the partnerships' long-term approach to improving
the quality of life of older people and meeting the needs
of the city's increasingly older population, recognising
that Sheffield both already has a relatively old
population (with the highest proportion of people 50+ of
any of the major UK cites) and that the proportion of older
people in the city is set to grow significantly over the
next 20 years (with the number of people over 50 projected
to rise by around a fifth and the number over 80 by around
a third).
Our Aim is to effectively promote successful ageing as
a mainstream function of all agencies within the City; promoting
a positive approach to ageing and old age, supporting the
active citizenship of older people and ensuring the delivery
of high quality integrated services that enable people to
live independently for longer.
The strategy sets out how the family of partnerships in
Sheffield will work to continue to improve the quality of
life of an ageing population in the city. To do this, four
headings have been chosen to reflect key themes and activities
that influence people's quality of life. These are:
Theme 1: Active in, and contributing
to, stronger neighbourhoods and communities
Theme 2: Learning, working and making our
experience count
Theme 3: Staying healthy and improving
our well being
Theme 4: Shaping and improving our services
Responsibility for delivering the strategy is shared across
the Sheffield First family of partnerships and an action
plan has been agreed setting what we will be doing in the
next three years to achieve the aims and objectives in the
strategy. The Older People's Partnership Board (OPPB) will
be monitoring and reporting on progress against this action
plan to the wider Sheffield First Partnership. Detailed
work to coordinate and support the further development of
these actions and monitor progress will be led by the Older
People's Citizen and Inclusion group (a sub group of the
OPPB).
October 02, 2006 
