Category: Events and News

Light Up Your Life! Celebrate 2015

celfest

To celebrate International Year of Light, we have six themes to the Festival

Performance/Information stalls/marquees/displays…

  • The light fantastic: dance, performance, music, movement, exercise, visual light show
  • the light touch: technology, computers, photography, healing and therapy, health and well-being
  • I see the light: celebrating diversity: representation from all of the faith groups and cultures in our diverse community, mindfulness, meditation and positivity
  • light for the future: looking at sustainability and sustainable resources, raising awareness of environmental issues, solar power
  • light and flight: to infinity and beyond, the night sky, the moon, space travel and technology, raising aspirations in employment in the field of STEM technology, space exploration, sustainable travel
  • Light Up Your Life: the ultimate theme of the Festival: participation, engagement, reducing isolation, getting to know your neighbours,

The International Year of Light

IYL2015 is a global initiative adopted by the United Nations to raise awareness of how optical technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to worldwide challenges in energy, education, agriculture, communications and health.

The website contains some fascinating information, an events calendar including UK events…

And our Celebrate Festival!

(Bit ambitious but why not!)

http://www.light2015.org/Home/Event-Programme/2015/Other/UK-Celebrate-Community-Festival.html

Chorlton Good Neighbours (CGN)

Chorlton Good Neighbours  (CGN) is a neighbourhood care group working in Chorlton-cum-Hardy and parts of Whalley Range, Manchester

Started in 1967 by a group of local churches, community groups and other local people, we are now a well established charity offering social, practical and emotional support to mainly older people in our community.

  • Coffee mornings
  • Exercise classes
  • Lifts to and from appointments
  • Home visits
  • Help with odd jobs
  • Referal to other agencies
  • Provide general advice and useful local knowledge
  • Social events
  • Information events
  • History Group
  • Day trips
  • Gardening Club
  • Men social afternoon
  • Melodics singing group

Who are our users?

  • Local older people – mainly from Chorlton, Chorlton Park and the Whalley Range area..
  • Our users often have little or no local family support. The majority of our users are women; however, we are encouraging more older men to get involved through a project which specifically targets them.

Visit the website at: www.chorltongoodneighbours.org  

Manchester Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Research on Ageing (MICRA)

MICRA is a network promoting interdisciplinary and innovative research on all aspects of ageing. It is based at the University of Manchester, but works more widely in the Greater Manchester area and nationally. MICRA currently brings together around 1,000 academics, practitioners, policy makers and older people to enrich the research environment and to help bridge the gap between academic research and policy and practice.

MICRA aims to:

  • Bring together an interdisciplinary groups of researchers working on ageing from across the University of Manchester, enhancing our capacity to raise funding for and conduct research
  • Increase capability to translate research findings into practical applications (policy, clinical innovations, technology)
  • Act as a focus for research activity at postgraduate and undergraduate levels across Schools and Faculties, with the intention of developing the next generation of interdisciplinary researchers in the field of ageing

Read more and find out about upcoming events at:

http://www.ihs.manchester.ac.uk/MICRA/

The Older People Health and Wellbeing Atlas

Enter the Older People Health and Wellbeing Atlas

The Older People Health and Wellbeing Atlas provides a snapshot profile of each local authority in England. Interactive maps and charts enable comparisons to be made nationally for over 100 indicators.

The atlas can be used to highlight deficits in the health and care of older people and large variations between local authorities across England. The information will be of use to the wide range of organisations with an interest in the health and care of older people. The Older People Health and Wellbeing Atlas aims to support those responsible for:

  • delivering strategies for prevention and early intervention to improve the health and wellbeing of older people
  • providing evidence and intelligence to support the development of Joint Strategic Needs Assessments for their local area.

By providing a tool to:

  • Identify variations in the health and care of older people at local authority level
  • Compare a local authority with others, including viewing those demographically similar
  • Understand how the health and care of older people varies across local authority areas
  • Monitor progress to reduce inequalities between local authorities in the health and wellbeing of older people.

In March 2013 the WMPHO has released updates to the Older People Health and Wellbeing Atlas (more information link to the Data Page. The data download file and userguide will be released shortly). Further indicators will be added or updated in future phases of this project.

Read more: http://www.wmpho.org.uk/olderpeopleatlas/