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Society | The State of Ageing 2025

Older people take on varied roles in their communities but frequently come up against barriers of ageism, digital exclusion and cutbacks in local amenities and services.

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The Centre for Ageing Better is tackling inequalities in ageing. We are working to make our workplaces, homes and communities inclusive of older people, as well as building an Age-friendly Movement so that society sees ageing in a more positive and realistic way.

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Summary | The State of Ageing 2025

Our summary presents key data on our older population and shows that, quite simply, where you are born in England determines how long you live and how well you age.
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110 million lost hours of volunteering by older people due to post-pandemic slump

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20 Oct 2025
5 min read
Our latest State of Ageing chapter on Society reveals that the huge amount of volunteering carried out by people aged 50 and older has diminished compared to before the pandemic.
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The double prejudice facing Disabled older workers

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15 Sep 2025
6 min read
The Centre for Ageing Better launches new report calling for new policy and practice to improve support for Disabled people and people with long-term health conditions in their 50s and 60s to find and stay in work.
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Dorset becomes the 100th Age-friendly Community

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9 Oct 2025
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Dorset Council has become the 100th place in the UK to become an Age-friendly Community.
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Unequal access, unsafe homes: The home improvement gap for racially minoritised communities

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Centre for Ageing Better
15 Oct 2025
This report, commissioned by the Centre for Ageing Better and delivered by the Race Equality Foundation, explores the specific housing and home improvement needs and barriers experienced by racially minoritised communities in England.
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Age-positive image library

Centre for Ageing Better
7 Jan 2023

Photos in the image library, which depict older people in non-stereotypical ways, are available to download for free.

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Did the Spring Budget deliver for older workers?

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We discussed whether the Budget really will deliver more employment for people in their 50s and 60s.
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An introduction to Age-friendly Communities

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What is an Age-friendly Community? Learn about the WHO Age-friendly Communities framework and what can be achieved through becoming one.
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How to show ageing from a new perspective

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This webinar explained how you can capture photos that show the diversity of older people in realistic and authentic ways.

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Ensuring more older workers see a future in hospitality key to sector’s future success

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Centre for Ageing Better – breaking taboos

Lindsey Tuley, Director of HR, sets out some of the approaches that Ageing Better takes to fulfil being an Age-friendly Employer and why there’s an excellent business case for doing so.

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Age-friendly case study: Supporting older people to shape their environment through walk audits

This case study looks at how Age-friendly Bolton are applying the approach as part local redevelopments.

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Latest research from others

‘I’m not ill, I’m just old’: negotiations of risk – an ethnographic study of the subjectification of older people in assisted body care practices in institutionalized homes
Rosendal, K., Overgaard, D., and Lehn, S., Ageing & Society
This study examines assisted body care in Danish institutional homes.
Incorporating Informal Caregiving Time into Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Adults Aged 50 and Older
Jiao, B., et al., Value in Health
This US study examines the inclusion of informal caregiving time in cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) for adults aged 50 and older.
Exposome factors associated with multi-morbidity in older adults: a discovery-based cross-sectional analysis in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam
Mora, J.D., et al., European Journal of Public Health
This Dutch study examines exposome factors linked to multi-morbidity in older adults.

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