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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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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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Good Home Inquiry

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

  • Homes
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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

  • Age-friendly Movement
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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?

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Double jeopardy? The cumulative inequalities of age and ethnicity

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Centre for Ageing Better
29 Sep 2020

Watch this webinar as we explore what more should be done to prevent inequalities of age and ethnicity.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Good Home Inquiry

Homes, health and coronavirus

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Centre for Ageing Better
22 Sep 2020

This webinar launched a review of the impact that our homes have on our health – especially in the wake of COVID-19.

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Attitudes to ageing

Anna Dixon In Conversation With AARP Executive VP Debra Whitman

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Centre for Ageing Better
17 Sep 2020

Our Chief Executive, Dr Anna Dixon, is joined by the AARP's VP and Chief Public Policy Officer to discuss her book 'The Age of Ageing Better? A Manifesto for Our Future'.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

Measuring progress, well-being and beyond GDP in the UK
Office for National Statistics
9 May 2024
This statistical release presents an overview of UK measures of wellbeing, including specific findings related to older people. Drawing on economic, environmental, and social statistics, findings…
The Disabled Facilities Grant
Age UK
28 May 2024
This report outlines current evidence on the delivery of the Disabled Facilities Grant - funding available to Disabled people to make changes to their home. Based on Age UK Advice Line data and…
Reablement, Rehabilitation, Recovery: Everyone’s Business
The British Geriatrics Society
15 May 2024
This report outlines changes needed to improve rehabilitative care for older people in the UK. Providing 12 key recommendations, this report calls for greater investment in and prioritisation of…

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