The Good Home Network brings together local authorities to make connections, share challenges and drive change to improve the quality of homes. The Network is delighted be able to support members to visit other member areas to learn from each other.
Older people living in rural and coastal areas can face challenges in staying connected, accessing health and care services, and accessing the right housing, writes our Learning Officer for the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities, Pippa Mannerings.
Ageing Better has welcomed the Prime Minister’s decision to look again at the eligibility threshold for Winter Fuel Payments to allow more pensioners to qualify for support.
Our in-house evaluation of the Steps to Your Goal employment support pilot. The pilot, developed by Centre for Ageing Better following an extensive co-design process and delivered by Triage and HealthFind, supported people over 50 in Middlesbrough looking to find work.
The Women and Equalities Committee recommended the government consider replicating the framework in Wales for a Commissioner for Older People in a report published earlier this year.
People from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic backgrounds are more likely to live in a poor-quality home and less likely to be able to access home improvement support.
Ageing Better were among a partnership of organisations that delivered the recent Age-Friendly Futures Summit in Manchester, bringing together around 250 leaders, policymakers, practitioners and researchers from the UK and around the globe.
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