Going outdoors is essential for maintaining health and wellbeing into later life, but many older people find it becomes less easy, enjoyable and meaningful as they age.

To help ensure that living longer is a positive experience for everyone, we need evidence-based solutions to the various challenges presented by our urban and rural environments.

Over a three-and-a-half-year period, the Mobility, Mood and Place (MMP) research project has been bringing together early career designers and older participants to envision places, from homes to public spaces, which are inclusive, enabling and inspirational.

The project’s findings have implications for the way we design for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities so that going outdoors in younger years becomes a lifelong passion for getting out and about.

On Wednesday 8th November 2017, join A&DS and the MMP team for the launch of the project’s latest publication.

Created for planners, architects, landscape architects and urban designers, the beautifully-designed and illustrated book takes you through 13 key things uncovered through the co-design process about older people’s needs and preferences for age-friendly environments.

Many are surprising; challenging widespread assumptions about ageing and place.

By sharing them with you, we hope to encourage you to think about your own practice through an age-friendly lens, and about the benefits of meaningful collaboration with end users.