2025 Silver Economy Forum

This year, SEF 2025, in partnership with Greater Manchester (GM), one of the most successful age-friendly cities in the world, will focus on the critical role of age-friendly cities in reimagining 21st-century life, work, and communities as well as supporting the expansion of the Silver Economy.

We will explore how age-friendly cities can be the drivers of their own, national and international, policy changes, broadening the Silver Economy and being the cornerstone of fiscal sustainability and economic growth. These urban centers play a pivotal role in creating and integrating infrastructure to suit the needs of their older populations, attracting businesses engaged in the Silver Economy, promoting healthy aging and providing a hub for education and training of its population throughout their life course. Building and sustaining an age-friendly city creates new business opportunities, leverages the talent and engagement of the entire population, works to keep their populations healthy, diminishes ageism and is a beacon for all sectors of society.