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Too many homes don’t meet the needs of people in later life. We want everyone to be able to live in a safe and suitable home as they get older.

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Busting the “wealthy boomers” myth

The post-war generation now in their 60s and 70s are often portrayed as wealthy beneficiaries of circumstance. Yet almost one in five live in poverty.

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No place for older renters

The impact of the housing crisis on poverty is an area of growing public interest and understanding, but older people experiencing financial insecurity are often overlooked.

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Measuring impact: Top tips on how to show the difference your home improvement services make

This briefing contains a series of ‘top tips’ and ideas to support your work to show the impact of your service – what it does and how your service achieves what it sets out to do.

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Learning together, building connections: Bringing the Good Home Network together face-to-face

The Centre for Ageing Better and Foundations are bringing together local authorities in the Good Home Network to support learning, peer support and innovation in home improvement services.

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Home improvement is the ‘triple dividend’ the UK desperately needs

Whoever gains the keys to Number 10 at the next election knows they will have limited resources to work with to fix a range of large-scale, long-term challenges the country faces.

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The voices behind the numbers

Our new State of Ageing report details how older people from some Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds are more likely to live in poverty, poor housing and poorer health than average.

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Living in a cold home: A Good Home Network briefing

This briefing outlines some of the challenges and proposes potential solutions to help home improvement services to support people living in cold homes.

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Numbers of impoverished older people from minority ethnic backgrounds set to soar without urgent action

Our newly published State of Ageing report details how older people from certain ethnic minority backgrounds are currently much more likely to be living in poor health, deep poverty and inadequate housing than the national average.

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