Presenter: Prof. Tine Buffel, professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology at the University of Manchester, where she directs the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group

Theme: Reimagining age-friendly communities: Urban ageing and spatial justice.

Description: This presentation sets out the importance of a focus on social and economic inequalities, and their consequences, for research on urban ageing. The implications of such inequalities for age-friendly policy and practice will be discussed, arguing that unless they pay attention to questions of inequality and social justice, such programmes run the very real risk of amplifying inequalities. An overview of the main challenges and opportunities for the future of the age-friendly movement will be presented, together with a manifesto to inspire progress for the movement, one which builds on ideas around spatial justice and the right to an age-friendly community.