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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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
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Helping out: Insights on age-friendly and inclusive approaches to engaging older volunteers

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Centre for Ageing Better
29 Jan 2021

Hear how supporting older volunteers has helped organisations respond to the pandemic.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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The great, green homes challenge: Retrofitting for warmer, safer homes

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Centre for Ageing Better
26 Jan 2021

A webinar hosted by the Good Home Inquiry and Federation of Master Builders

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Health inequalities: Healthy ageing webinars

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Centre for Ageing Better
14 Jan 2021

In this webinar we examined the role that poverty plays in healthy ageing, and heard what organisations are doing to address this major determinant of health inequality.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Webinar: The State of Ageing in 2020

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Centre for Ageing Better
27 Nov 2020

We held an interactive webinar to explore the key themes from our flagship report: The State of Ageing in 2020

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Community contributions: Healthy ageing webinars

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Centre for Ageing Better
22 Oct 2020

What does it mean to have age-friendly and inclusive volunteering, and whole-system approaches to community-centred public health?

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Latest research from others

How do research participants with age-related vision loss talk about their experiences?
Enoch, J., Subramanian, A., Wilig, C,. Ageing & Society
29 Feb 2024
This paper explores how age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is discussed by those affected.
Health state life expectancies in England, Northern Ireland and Wales: between 2011 to 2013 and 2020 to 2022
Office for National Statistics
26 Mar 2024
This bulletin outlines healthy life expectancies for the UK population by gender and across different geographical areas.
Scams Prevention and Support Programme Report: Empowering Older People in a Fraud Epidemic
Age UK
8 Apr 2024
This report provides an overview of Age UK’s Scams Prevention and Support Programme.

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