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How can local elected members help us all age better?

Blog

23 Sep 2022

Can elected members make a difference to the lives of older people? We ask a former councillor for their thoughts.

Delivering Age-friendly programme

Measuring impact: Top tips on how to show the difference your home improvement services make

Guide

Centre for Ageing Better

6 Mar 2024

This briefing contains a series of ‘top tips’ and ideas to support your work to show the impact of your service – what it does and how your service achieves what it sets out to do.

Housing

Age Without Limits Day: Micro-grants for community groups information session (2)

Webinar

Centre for Ageing Better

12 Dec 2024

An online information session on the Age Without Limits Day micro-grants for community groups.

Delivering Age-friendly programme

Measuring ageing: An introduction to the Ageing Better Measures Framework

Toolkit

Centre for Ageing Better

31 Jan 2019

This is a compendium of 63 measures, survey scales and their associated data sources looking at outcomes at the individual level related to ageing and later life.

Delivering Age-friendly programme

Age-friendly and inclusive volunteering grant programme

Report

Centre for Ageing Better

5 Jun 2020

In partnership with DCMS, we funded five projects to trial different ways of engaging and supporting older volunteers.

Social participation

How the mayoral elections might impact the long-awaited plan to make London age-friendly

Blog

Margit Physant

11 Apr 2024

On May 2, more than 6 million Londoners will go to the polls to elect a mayor and 25 London Assembly members.

Social participation

Case study: Ageing Well Ambassadors in Sunderland

Case Study

Centre for Ageing Better

7 Jan 2025

As Age-friendly Communities, places are actively involving older adults, ensuring they have a voice in shaping their environment and the services they use. This case study highlights how Sunderland City Council established a network of ‘ambassadors’ to help achieve these goals.

Delivering Age-friendly programme

Case Study: Libraries in Manchester

Case Study

22 Jul 2025

Manchester libraries achieved ‘Age-friendly Libraries’ status in June 2022, recognising their commitment to a set of age-friendly standards. This case study shows how they have adapted services and physical spaces to better meet the needs of older people and highlights the benefits they have seen.