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Organisations join forces to urge Chancellor to reconsider Winter Fuel Payment decision

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Centre for Ageing Better
2 Aug 2024

The Centre for Ageing Better has joined more than 20 organisations in signing a letter to Rachel Reeves calling on the UK government to halt the Winter Fuel Payment change announced this week.

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State of Ageing: Eight stats that show the diverse experience of getting older in the UK today

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Aideen Young
1 Aug 2024

If you want to know what it is like getting older in the UK, ignore assumptions and look at the facts.

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Vital government raises pension credit take-up if it is to go through with winter fuel payments reform

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30 Jul 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced yesterday that up to 10 million pensioners will no longer be eligible for winter fuel payments in a cost-cutting move.

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The missing 250,000 homes: Campaigners count the cost of two years of inaction on minimum accessibility standards

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29 Jul 2024

New analysis from the Centre for Ageing Better reveals it would take 44 years to meet the current demand for accessible and adaptable housing in England at the current rate of construction.

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The latest thinking in the studying of ageing and older people

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Aideen Young
24 Jul 2024

The British Society of Gerontology held its 53rd Annual Conference in Newcastle at the start of this month.

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Overtly ageist businesses will pay the price for such blinkered thinking – in a myriad of ways

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Emily Andrews
19 Jul 2024

An employment tribunal has granted a multi-million award to a senior executive dismissed by a firm that had a policy of only hiring people under the age of 45.

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To realise economic growth mission, Labour must unleash potential of 50+ population

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18 Jul 2024

The new Labour government set out its legislative agenda for the next year in yesterday’s King’s Speech.

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Professor Dame Carol Black receives latest honour marking distinguished career

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Centre for Ageing Better
17 Jul 2024

Ageing Better is delighted to congratulate its Chair, Professor Dame Carol Black, on receiving the Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

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Too old to be included: age diversity statements foster diversity yet fall short on inclusion
De Saint Priest, O., et al., Frontiers in Psychology
18 Jul 2024
This paper discusses two studies on age diversity statements' effects on older employees in the US and UK.
Food insecurity: The resilient, but “silent poverty” perspectives of older ethnic minority individuals within UK communities
McEachern, M. G., et al., Social Policy & Administration
17 Jul 2024
This study examines food insecurity among older Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities in Greater Manchester, through the lens of individual and community resilience.
Heat vulnerability: health impacts of heat on older people in urban and rural areas in Europe
Fastl, C., et al., Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
19 Aug 2024
This article explores the impact of extreme heat on older adults in Europe.

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