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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.

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The future of ageing: Ageing better / Ageing badly?

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Ellie Gotay
27 Feb 2019

What might the future of ageing look like and how can we bring about lasting changes in society that make a difference to peoples' experiences of later life?

Age-friendly Movement
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Economy and inequality in the UK

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Ellie Gotay
16 Nov 2018

What’s a fair way of distributing wealth through generations?

Age-friendly Movement
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How can business meet the Grand Challenge on Ageing?

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Ellie Gotay
24 Oct 2018

This breakfast debate explored the opportunities that the ‘grand challenge’ of an ageing population presents.

Age-friendly Movement
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Room to improve: innovation and good practice in housing adaptations conference

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Centre for Ageing Better
8 Oct 2018

This conference launched our latest report: Adapting for Ageing. We were delighted to welcome special guest: Nick Knowles, who hosted a panel discussion on home adaptations.

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Loneliness and isolation: an age-old story, not just a story of old age

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Ellie Gotay
27 Sep 2018

We hosted a breakfast debate in Leeds to explore this powerfully emotive topic and considered what we can all do to create and maintain friendships and connections to last us a lifetime.

Age-friendly Movement
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A message to myself: planning and preparing for later life

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Ellie Gotay
24 Sep 2018

We held a panel event that explored what enables people to plan for their later lives, and the challenges they may face along the way.

Age-friendly Movement
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Mind the digital gap

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Ellie Gotay
13 Jun 2018

How do we tackle digital exclusion in later life? We held a debate to discuss how society should respond to the issue of digital exclusion in later life, now and in the future.

Age-friendly Movement
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Ageism: the last taboo

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Ellie Gotay
2 May 2018

Ageing is still a taboo in our society. We held a debate about how we could take steps to collectively change this.

Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

Fire safety in houses and flats
House of Commons Library
2 May 2024
This report outlines new fire safety regulations that have been introduced because of the Grenfell Tower fire. Framed within research that identifies older people as at greatest risk of dying in a…
Barriers and motivators to undertaking physical activity in adults over 70
Kilgour, A., et al., Age and Ageing
22 Apr 2024
This systematic review summarises international evidence on barriers and motivators to physical activity amongst adults aged 70 and over. Drawing on 73 studies, it identifies key barriers such as…
Poverty and financial disadvantage in later life
Age UK
19 May 2024
This report outlines the current evidence on pensioner poverty in the UK. Based on DWP annual statistics, it finds 16% of UK pensioners as living in relative poverty, with higher-than average risk…

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