... empower residents. Social implications See practical implications. Originality/value The paper provides an assessment of the relevance for older people of three decades of policies designed to improve areas of multiple deprivation. The paper brings together a range of literature not hitherto...

... aimed to test the potential of the Village model to work with groups of older adults in two economically deprived, inner-city neighbourhoods in Manchester, UK. Design/methodology/approach Participatory methods were used to work with residents to, first, adapt the Village model to the Manchester...

.... In the context of a study that examines the concerns of older people living in areas of England characterised by intense social deprivation, this article explores older people's perceptions of the local environment. Early findings are reported from a survey of older people (n=600) conducted in nine socially...