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Our events bring people, organisations and experts together to share knowledge and experience.

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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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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

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Good Home Inquiry

How does digital connectivity support and enhance a good home?

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Centre for Ageing Better
12 Aug 2021

In this webinar, hosted by the Good Home Inquiry, we examined how a digitally connected home supports  and enhances a good home and how we can ensure more people are connected in ways that work for them in their existing homes.

  • Homes
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Putting age in the frame

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Centre for Ageing Better
22 Jul 2021

This webinar looked at how imagery shapes and reinforces negative attitudes to ageing, and explored current efforts to depict older age in a more positive and realistic light.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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The missing market – how can we each better meet the needs of over 50s consumers?

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Centre for Ageing Better
15 Jul 2021

This webinar launched our report, which explores how we can better meet the needs of older adults through inclusive design.

  • Homes
  • Age-friendly Movement
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Responding to the experience of older people in the COVID-19 pandemic

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Centre for Ageing Better
12 Jul 2021

This event marked the launch of the University of Manchester report, ‘Covid-19 and Social Exclusion: Experiences of older people living in areas of multiple deprivation’.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Digital skills to connect

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Centre for Ageing Better
8 Jul 2021

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected digital skills training for older adults?

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Making the most of a multi-generational workforce; Don't let ageism limit your talent pool

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Centre for Ageing Better
1 Jul 2021

A webinar hosted by ACAS. Explore the business benefits, the barriers of assumptions and the legal requirements of a multi-generational workforce, and how this may help you recruit the best talent for your sector.

  • Work
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Health and work: Healthy ageing webinars

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Centre for Ageing Better
25 Jun 2021

This webinar explored the importance of health, work and ageing, and what employers and government need to do to ensure that all employees are supported at work.

  • Age-friendly Movement
  • Work
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Developing Age-friendly Communities

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Centre for Ageing Better
23 Jun 2021

How can I get started with developing an Age-friendly Community? This half-day training will explore how communities can embed an Age-friendly Communities approach, taking you through the first stage of the Age-friendly Communities Framework.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

Inequalities in caregiving strain during the COVID-19 pandemic: conceptual framework and review of the empirical evidence
Schmitz, A., et al., International Journal of Care and Caring
23 May 2024
This paper summarises findings on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on informal carers for 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.
‘The boots will be on the coffin!’: multiple meanings of ageing for older people playing walking football
Thomas, G. M., Ageing and Society
24 Apr 2024
This paper looks at how older people reflect on the meaning of ageing whilst participating in sports and leisure activities. Based on interviews with 65 adults over the age of 50 living in the UK, it…

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