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An introduction to Age-friendly Communities

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Centre for Ageing Better
21 Aug 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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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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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

Past events

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How community organisations contribute to healthy ageing

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Centre for Ageing Better
24 Mar 2022

This webinar explored the findings from our evaluation of the Leeds Neighbourhood Network.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Older group of adults taking a selfie in front of a lake

Community connections as we age: lessons from the pandemic

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Centre for Ageing Better
9 Mar 2022

In this webinar we explored what needs to be in place to enable everyone to maintain, rebuild or grow social connections as we age.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Three older adults from different ethnicities sit around a table outside at a cafe

Ethnic health inequalities in later life

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Centre for Ageing Better
14 Jan 2022

This webinar explored the latest research on ethnic inequalities in health in later life.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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How can we develop a national post-pandemic resilience programme?

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Centre for Ageing Better
16 Dec 2021

The Centre for Ageing Better and The Physiological Society launched a new joint report ‘A National Post Pandemic Resilience Programme: Supporting older adults to recover from the pandemic’.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Age-friendly training: plan and act

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Centre for Ageing Better
6 Dec 2021

Learn more about developing your strategic plan and action plans to achieve desired outcomes for your Age-friendly Community.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Best foot forward: Understanding active travel

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Centre for Ageing Better
4 Oct 2021

This webinar explored the motivators and barriers to active travel for people in their 50s and 60s, and by extension, what might work to get people in this age group walking or cycling as their default mode of travel.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Improving the recruitment of older workers

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Centre for Ageing Better
30 Sep 2021

In this webinar we explored the recruitment of older workers both from the perspective of employers and workers, as well as the impact of language in job adverts.

  • Work
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The Good Home Inquiry: How to get the homes we want

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Centre for Ageing Better
16 Sep 2021

In this webinar we discussed the Good Home Inquiry’s findings and recommendations, the policy priorities of the public and the next steps needed to improve our homes and improve the lives of millions of people.

  • Homes

Latest research from others

Work and Retirement Among Women: The Health and Employment After Fifty Study
Palermo, G. et al., Occupational Medicine
23 May 2024
This study examines the employment patterns of older women aged 50-64, and the factors leading to job exit.
Development, feasibility, and acceptability of a process-based intervention to decrease internalized ageism.
Murphy, D, J., et al., Gerontology & Geriatrics Education
2 Jun 2024
This paper outlines the impact and feasibility of a 6-week online process-based intervention aimed at reducing internalised ageism in older people.
Development of the Community-based complex Interventions to sustain Independence in Older People (CII-OP) typology
Crocker, T, F., et al., Age and Ageing
25 May 2024
This paper presents a typology of community-based interventions to support older people to sustain independence.

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