Co-production Learning

This Spring Ageing Better held a Festival of Co-production Learning. During this festival, Ageing Better partner organisations shared their co-production learning from the last six years through 12 distinct themes. Ageing Better is an initiative to improve the lives of people aged over 50 by addressing social isolation and loneliness. 

How does Connect Hackney approach co-production?
The programme defines co-production as enabling the participation of older people throughout the programme including design, delivery, setting priorities, financial oversight, management and evaluation. The programme understands co-production to be a relational approach, the ambition of which is to operate as a meaningful collaboration between professionals and older people.

In pursuit of this goal the programme produced a survey completed by over 800 older people, has run focus groups with over 300 older people and established an Older People’s Committee whose members are involved in both strategic and operational work including commissioning, recruitment and setting priorities.

Read our key messages on co-production with older people and watch our co-production video belowdf