Greensleeves Care chief executive Paul Newman is leading the development of a new international standard for smart multigenerational neighbourhoods.

ISO 25553 is the latest in a series of ISO standards aimed at enhancing the quality of life for older people.

Newman, founding chair of the National Committee on Ageing Societies at the British Standard Institution (BSI) and representing the UK at ISO, said: “At the ISO committee on Ageing Societies, we identified the need for more multigenerational neighbourhoods as a priority.

“Central to this agenda is ISO 25553, a new standard framework, relating to the design, creation, operation and maintenance of mixed tenure ‘Lifetime Neighbourhoods that Care’ where young and old, disabled and able, can co-exist in well-designed technologically enabled housing, to help facilitate independent living and enhanced wellbeing.”

Ian Spero,  founder of the Agile Ageing Alliance and Honorary Professor at the UCL Bartlett School for Sustainable Construction, said: “Healthy ageing is about creating the environments and opportunities that enable people to be and do what they value throughout their lives. This involves promoting ‘smarter’, more inclusive, green and healthier urban regeneration.”

“In scoping out ISO 25553, we aim to change the way we think and operationalise healthy ageing in the places we want to be where putting people and the planet’s needs as a priority will translate into homes and shared public spaces that are more accessible and enabling, adapting to different stages of life and ever-changing human requirements.”

An event will he held on 3 November at NatWest HQ in London to develop the standard.

You can register your interest to attend via this link. For further information contact [email protected]