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An introduction to Age-friendly Communities

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Centre for Ageing Better
21 Nov 2024

What is an Age-friendly Community? Learn about the WHO Age-friendly Communities framework and what can be achieved through becoming one.

  • Age-friendly Movement

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Housing quality and people’s health: making the case for improving health through housing

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Centre for Ageing Better
20 Nov 2024

Homes should be places of warmth and safety but for millions of people, their homes cause falls, asthma, heart problems, joint problems, and many more conditions. Understand how local areas are creating joint solutions across the health, care and housing sectors.

  • Homes
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LGA Conference Fringe Session: Preparing for an ageing population – what can local authorities do?

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23 Oct 2024

If you are attending the LGA Conference 2024, please join us for our fringe session about how local authorities can prepare for our ageing population.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Event: Building effective local home improvement services: Good Home Hubs

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Centre for Ageing Better
2 Oct 2024

What is a Good Home Hub? Learn about this comprehensive model for home improvement services and how it can benefit people living in your area.

  • Homes
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Redundancy Support Project: Insights and next steps

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Centre for Ageing Better
24 Sep 2024

Ageing Better is looking at new ways to support older workers through restructure and redundancy. Over the past three years we have researched, co-designed and delivered a pilot to improve outcomes for older workers at risk of redundancy.

  • Work
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Finding funds, fixing homes: innovation in local authority provision of home improvement grants and loans

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Centre for Ageing Better
10 Jul 2024

Finance is a fundamental barrier facing people who want to make improvements to their home. Learn how local areas are tailoring financial solutions to meet the needs of their residents.

  • Homes
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Exhibition - Challenging Ageism: See and Be Seen

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Centre for Ageing Better
20 Mar 2024

To celebrate our first Age Without Limits Action Day this photo exhibition celebrates the huge diversity across ages and shows there is no one way to grow old.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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The role of local Age UKs in Age-friendly Communities

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Centre for Ageing Better
13 Mar 2024

In this session we will outline the World Health Organisation's Age-friendly Communities approach and how it can bring benefit to local Age UKs

  • Age-friendly Movement
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The State of Ageing 2023-24: understanding ethnic inequalities in later life

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Centre for Ageing Better
12 Feb 2024

In this webinar invited experts examined what we know about the lives of older people from minority ethnic backgrounds, and what action is needed to address inequalities.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

On the limits of communication: The liminal positioning of older adults and processes of self-ageism and ageism
Schuurman, B., et al., Journal of Aging Studies
This study, based in the Netherlands, explores experiences of (self-)ageism among recent retirees.
A qualitative exploration of the lives lived by Irish centenarians
Fagan A., Journal of Ageing Studies
This study explores the lived experience of Irish centenarians.
Supporting engagement with reablement: a practice guidance resource for reablement services
University of York
This report provides guidance on enhancing older people's engagement with reablement services in England and Wales.

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