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Putting off planning for later life

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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Five pound paper notes.

When it comes to our future finances, why must so many people be left in the dark?

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’.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Man working at Tesco till.

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

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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Retirement planning guide books

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

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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Snow globe in the office

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

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

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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Am I too young to be working on ageing?

As a millennial who works on the issue of ageing, you may be susceptible to loaded questions about if you're too young to care about people in their later lives.

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Older person in exercise class

Adding life to our years

How long do you think you’ll live? Until you’re 70? 80? 90? Do you think you’ll reach 100?  

  • Age-friendly Movement

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