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Planning and preparing for our later lives

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20 Sep 2018

Ageing Better’s report, ‘Planning and preparing for later life’, summarises the available evidence on what enables people to plan for their later lives and what factors can present barriers to planning.

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PM calls for more social housing – our response

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19 Sep 2018

The Prime Minister spoke to the National Housing Federation about the need for more social housing.

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Putting off planning for later life

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19 Sep 2018

While we might want to plan ahead for our future, the day-to-day challenges we all face can make it hard to do in practice.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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When it comes to our future finances, why must so many people be left in the dark?

Blog
17 Sep 2018

A typical worker has about 11 pension pots over their career, making it difficult to track. The pensions sector has recognised this problem and has been developing the ‘pensions dashboard’.

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Business can reap the rewards of longer life, and we might just avert the looming care crisis

Blog
14 Sep 2018

With sharp advances in life expectancy, supporting healthy ageing can enable more people to enjoy extra years living healthy, independent lives and avert a social care crisis.

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Sometimes it takes a jolt to make us start planning for the future

Blog
12 Sep 2018

While some people know the basic things they need to plan for as they approach later life, many of us leave the fine details to the last moment.

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Planning for later life doesn’t have to involve a crystal ball

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11 Sep 2018

For many people, looking ahead to what we’ll think, feel and need in later life is almost impossible – even if they’re aware of the importance of planning.

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Call for employers to do more for older workers

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10 Sep 2018

The Centre for Ageing Better's report calls for employers to be more age-friendly and inclusive of those over 50, including doing more to tackle age discrimination in the workplace.

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Latest research from others

When to care? A MAIHDA analysis of intersectional inequalities in the age of caregiving onset using European longitudinal data
Alonso-Perez, E., et al., Ageing & Society
This study examines when adults aged 50+ in Europe begin providing family care and how timing differs across intersecting identities.
Voices of Concern: The reality of health and social care for older people in Northern Ireland
Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland
This Northern Irish report explores older people’s experiences of current pressures to help shape the Commissioner’s priorities.
Pensions and economic status among the 1958 birth cohort prior to reaching State Pension age
Department for Work and Pensions
This UK report examines retirement outcomes for people born in 1958.

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