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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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Understanding the changing patterns of work at older ages

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Centre for Ageing Better
17 Jun 2021

Following new research by the IFS, this live-stream explored some of the challenges older workers and jobseekers might face when the furlough scheme is wound down.

  • Work
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Active travel: Healthy ageing webinars

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Centre for Ageing Better
29 Apr 2021

How do we create active travel environments for older adults?

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Good Home Inquiry

Good homes for all – who pays?

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Centre for Ageing Better
26 Apr 2021

A webinar hosted by the Good Home Inquiry, which explored how to overcome the financial challenges people experience when attempting to improve their homes.

  • Homes
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Age inclusive workforces: the business case and putting it into practice

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Centre for Ageing Better
22 Apr 2021

Together with the OECD, employers and thought leaders, we explored how we can maximise the benefits of multi-generational workforces as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Work
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Event: Ageing in a rural place

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Centre for Ageing Better
15 Apr 2021

This webinar explored the challenges and opportunities for people ageing in rural and coastal places, the impact of the pandemic on rural communities and the action required to support their recovery.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Good Home Inquiry

Housing and our health and wellbeing: Healthy ageing webinars

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Centre for Ageing Better
31 Mar 2021

How can we identify and support people whose health is being affected by poor housing to access funds to repair and improve their homes?

  • Age-friendly Movement
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One year on: the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of people approaching later life

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Centre for Ageing Better
25 Mar 2021

In this webinar we presented the findings of our research on work, health, housing and communities, which looked at the impact of COVID-19 on people aged 50-70.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Preventing the preventable: Healthy ageing webinars

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Centre for Ageing Better
25 Feb 2021

This webinar examined why a focus on prevention across the life course and across the health and social care system is essential to promote healthy ageing.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

Intergenerational inequality and the future of the social contract
International Longevity Centre UK
12 Jun 2024
This report explores social and economic intergenerational fairness in the UK.
Climate change and healthy ageing: An assessment of the impact of climate hazards on older people
Prina, M., et al., Journal of Global Health
24 May 2024
This paper reviews international evidence on the current and future impacts of climate change on older people. The review identifies a wide range of climate related hazards and outlines varying…
A narrative case study of an older disabled Muslim woman during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK
Alnamnakani, A., Frontiers in Sociology
17 Apr 2024
The study explores the experiences and perceptions of an older, disabled, Muslim woman living in UK, providing insight into intersecting experiences of discrimination. Based on multiple narrative…

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