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An introduction to Age-friendly Communities

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Centre for Ageing Better
10 Sep 2025

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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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
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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

Latest research from others

Social care costs of depressive symptoms in the English older population: Then role of housing quality improvements
Hu B. et al., Innovation in Aging
This study examines the impact of poor housing on mental health and associated social care costs for older people in England.
Can social prescribing reach patients most in need? Patterns of (in)equalities in referrals in a representative cohort of older adults in England
Fancourt D, and Steptoe A., Perspectives in Public Health
This study examines social prescribing for older adults in England.
Room for improvement: The experiences of people from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic backgrounds accessing home improvement support
Centre for Ageing Better
This project briefing examines housing support and home improvements for minority ethnic people in England.

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