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Learning together, building connections: Bringing the Good Home Network together face-to-face

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Livia Dragomir
28 Feb 2024

The Centre for Ageing Better and Foundations are bringing together local authorities in the Good Home Network to support learning, peer support and innovation in home improvement services.

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England’s new regional leaders can lead the way in improving later life

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Bianca Rossetti
23 Feb 2024

Millions of people will go to the polls in May to decide who will lead a growing number of Mayoral and Combined Authorities.

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Dame Carol Black to lead occupational health taskforce

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23 Feb 2024

Centre for Ageing Better Chair Dame Carol Black will lead a new taskforce to improve employer awareness of the benefits of occupational health in the workplace.

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What will the retirement of the future look like?

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Emily Andrews
21 Feb 2024

Will working into our 70s become the norm or will retirement vanish altogether for many in the future?

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New survey reveals half of people don’t believe they will look good when they are old

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23 Jan 2024

The new data also reveals that significant proportions of the population have concerns about their mobility, mental function, competency in their jobs, and ability to drive as they get older.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Older workers will need tailored support to recover from steel plant redundancies

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19 Jan 2024

Tata Steel has confirmed it is cutting 2,800 jobs across the UK, including 2,500 at its Port Talbot site.

The steel industry is known for having a high proportion of older workers who are likely to be hit hard by this announcement.

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Are you ageist? England’s first ever anti-ageism campaign launches

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Centre for Ageing Better
16 Jan 2024

Today we're launching Age Without Limits, a hard-hitting new campaign highlighting the issue of ageism.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Professor Dame Carol Black recognised in New Year Honours List 2024 with senior honour

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Centre for Ageing Better
29 Dec 2023

The Centre for Ageing Better is delighted to congratulate its Chair, Professor Dame Carol Black, on being awarded the Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the New Year’s Honours List 2024.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

The effectiveness of interventions used to improve general health check uptake by the older adult population
Lau WY. et al., PLOS Global Public Health
This study examines interventions to improve general health check uptake, focusing on older adults in UK and Japan.
Sex and education differences in trajectories of physiological ageing
Bloomberg M. and Steptoe A., Age and Ageing
This report examines how education and gender affect the physical ageing of older adults in the UK.
Impact of workforce characteristics and monetary incentives on uptake of health and wellbeing initiatives in the United Kingdom
Edet, A., et al., PLOS Global Public Health
This study investigates demographic variations in the uptake of workplace health and wellbeing (HWB) initiatives.

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