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New Old – Designing the Right Balance

New Old – Designing the Right Balance

Blog
24 Feb 2017

The 'New Old' exhibition at the Design Museum explores the role of new design in helping people to lead fuller, healthier and happier later lives. 

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Lifelong learning

Lifelong Learning

Blog
22 Feb 2017

Keeping mentally active and engaged is important for wellbeing at any age, and it’s also a key part of what people want for a good later life. 

  • Work
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Decline in job security

Decline in job security over the last decade for older workers

Blog
14 Feb 2017

Matthew Taylor, the lead for a review of modern employment, has called for the improvement of the quality of work in the UK to become a new “national goal”.

  • Work
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Housing white paper

Housing White Paper: Ageing should have been front and centre

Blog
13 Feb 2017

We welcome the reference to housing and ageing (p63) - but this was a missed opportunity to put the housing needs of our ageing population, front and centre.

  • Homes
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Housing white paper response

Centre for Ageing Better responds to the Housing White Paper

News
7 Feb 2017

Over the next 25 years, the proportion of households where the oldest person is 85 or over will grow faster than any other age group.

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Goal of a million more older people in work

We support the goal of a million more older people in work

News
6 Feb 2017

Government Business Champion for Older Workers, Andy Briggs, announces a new target to get 1M more people aged 50 and over in work over the next 5 years.

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Banishing the blues

Banishing the blues

Blog
6 Feb 2017

Blue Monday is now behind us and yet for many people loneliness is something they experience every day. 

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Local butcher - Eccles, Greater Manchester

Our response to the Government’s Fuller Working Lives strategy

News
2 Feb 2017

There are around 3.5 million people not in work between 50 and the state pension Age, and around a million of those stopped work before they were ready.

  • Work

Latest research from others

Telling it like it is: Experiences of Older People at End of Life 2025
Community Foundation Ireland
This Irish report examines the needs of older people and their families around end-of-life care.
Early retirement for workers in physically demanding jobs? An ageing society conundrum
Dalen, H.P., and Henkens, K., Ageing & Society
This study examines views in the Netherlands on reasonable pension ages, considering job type and personal circumstances.
Digital Divides in Older People: Assessment of Digital Competencies and Proposals for Meaningful Inclusion
Fernádez-Piqueras, R., et al. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education
This study explores digital capability among older adults in Spain.

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