July 2024 / Akhter
Eldercare - Attending gardening project
Ethnic Health Forum Eldercare project in collaboration with Manchester Mind, organised visit to local garden allotment at Southern Cemetry, Manchester. The participants enjoyed day out and learnt planatation and growing basics from the senior Garden Coordinator. The day our provided the participants with an opporunity to spend a day out in a healthy and stress free environment.
July 2024 / Hanif
Eldercare Awareness in Manchester Mela
Ethnic Health Forum Eldercare project participated at the Manchester annula Mela held at Platfield Park, Rusholme, Manchester. The Lead Eldercare met communities members to promote older people project and its needs for the local communities. The local MP and Local Councillor visited our stall and appreciated the efforts of Ethnic Health Forum in engaging local communities and older population.
June 2024 / Akhter
Eid Get Together Event
Ethnic Health Forum organised an Women Eid Get Together for this year at Platfield Park on a sunny day. The members of the local communities participated in this outdoor event. It was a intergenerational acitivity bringing older member of the communities and younger together.
June 2024 / Akhter
Raising Cancer Awareness among Elderly
Ethnic Health Forum organised half day session of raising cancer awareness among elderly from South Asian and Middle Eastern background.Primary care cancer nurse shared information about access to early detection clinic.We also discussed how communities can access the breast and bowel cancer screening and early diagnosis clinics.
8 June 2020 / Hanif
Covid-19, Inequality and Older people
"Ethnic Health Forum found that their information and advice service worked better for older people over the telephone and using WhatsApp." EHF contributed in writing up to this publication while representing the voices of older people from minority ethnic backgrounds particularly from South Asian and Middle Eastern background.
22 June 2020 / Hanif
Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG):
A research partnership with the University of Manchester
The lived experiences of older people during COVID-19: examining inequalities in Greater Manchester'.
The project takes a longitudinal approach to assess the impact of the pandemic on older people over time and involves telephone interviews with people aged 50 and over, drawn from a range of marginalised groups. More specifically, it includes older people who are at risk of social exclusion: either because of their individual characteristics and/or because of the neighbourhoods in which they live. The group views this work as particularly pressing given the context in which COVID-19 is having a disproportionate impact on low income and BAME communities. Which has already been affected by cuts to public services, the loss of social infrastructure, and pressures on the voluntary sector.
For more details about this project, Click here.
April 2019 / Rauf
Social and Cultural Barriers to Accessing Services Within Bedoun (Stateless) Arabic Speaking Communities: A research project approved by Ambition for Ageing
The research project set out to explore social and cultural issues affecting members of the Bedoun community of Central Manchester aged over 50. EHF also wanted to find out what barriers they experience when trying to access services. To view the report, you can visit external website of Ambition for Ageing, click here.
