GMCVO-led project Ambition for Ageing’s new report Social Infrastructure: How shared spaces make communities work, argues that to reduce social isolation, we need a diversity of social infrastructure to ensure chance social encounters with a diversity of people.
The author of the report, Sophie Yarker is a Research Fellow based in the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) at the University of Manchester.
MICRA is a leading research centre carrying out multidisciplinary research into fundamental questions about ageing and society through collaborative research. MICRA is a partner in the Ambition for Ageing programme.