The objectives  of Years Ahead include:

1. Bringing together organisations to ensure there is a common understanding of the key issues and trends around ageing and demographic change
   
   
2. Providing a platform to review and inform regional strategies, to ensure consistency of approaches to ageing and older people
   
   
3. Monitoring the impact of demographic change, including economic, environmental and social conditions, at regional level
   
   
4. Developing partnership working between organisations and across sectors, including dialogue with other communities of interest affected by demographic change
   
   
5. Providing a forum to share and promote best practice and through this to stimulate innovation, service and other improvements and new opportunities for older people
   
   
6. Encouraging the involvement of older people in, for example, economic activity, planning and political processes, and the research required to inform and implement effective regional strategies.

Such an approach is essential if Years Ahead is to harness effectively the vast resource of experience, skills, vision and energy of older people in the 21st century.