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Felxible working

Flexible working crucial to supporting older workers and boosting the COVID-19 recovery

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29 Sep 2020

We've launched a new toolkit for employers on the steps they can take to introduce and manage flexible working in their workplaces.

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Good Home Inquiry

COVID-19 has shone a light on our non-decent homes

Blog
22 Sep 2020

Improving England's housing stock will have massive benefits for people's safety and health, but also have a positive impact on the economy and the strain on the NHS.

  • Homes
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Good Home Inquiry

Millions in cold and damp homes could be at greater risk of COVID-19 this winter

News
22 Sep 2020

About 1 in 5 homes in England do not meet the national standard to be considered in decent condition. These are more likely to be lived in by people identified as most at risk from the virus, new report shows.

  • Homes
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Alcohol treatment

Alcohol and ageing: the hidden harms

Blog
18 Sep 2020

A new report by the Commission on Alcohol Harm has concluded that a new UK-wide alcohol strategy is urgently required.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Lessons from lockdown

Action to support the 50-70s crucial to building UK’s resilience post-pandemic

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15 Sep 2020

Improving health resilience and maximising the economic contribution of 50-70 year olds will be crucial to support economic recovery and growth, new report says.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Dawid Konotey-Ahulu

Dawid Konotey-Ahulu appointed trustee at Centre for Ageing Better

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14 Sep 2020

He will take up the position from mid-September and will work with us to on our mission to create a society in which everyone enjoys later life.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Elderly road sign

Age-positive icons competition launched

News
10 Sep 2020

We've launched a competition to design ‘age-positive’ icons to replace the negative symbols that commonly represent people in later life, such as ‘hunched-over stickmen’.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Co-design

Optimising co-design to create better life outcomes

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9 Sep 2020

The UK needs to design products with older people, carers and communities in mind rather than retrofitting to poorly understood needs.

  • Homes

Latest research from others

No country for cold homes: Key considerations for the Warm Homes Plan
Leather, Z., and Marshall, J., Resolution Foundation
This report examines the UK Government’s Warm Homes Plan.
‘A little bit of empathy and compassion would go a long way’: emotional and psychosocial experiences of money management and cognitive decline in later life
Hall, A., et al., Ageing & Society
This UK study examines support for older people with cognitive decline in managing money.
Evaluating gender bias in large language models in long-term care
Rickman, S., BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
This English study examines whether large language models (LLMs) show gender bias when summarising long-term care records for older people.

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