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How to ensure that transport is age-friendly

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Natalie Turner
29 Apr 2025

The absence of good public and community transport can lead to older people being restricted in the way that they lead their lives.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Is it time we stopped generational framing?

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Carole Easton
28 Apr 2025

This week is Global Intergenerational Week, an awareness week encouraging everyone to embrace intergenerational practice and relationships.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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An Age-friendly initiative has launched in Bournemouth town centre with a microgrant scheme for local businesses

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Centre for Ageing Better
24 Apr 2025

It aims to make Bournemouth town centre more welcoming to older people alongside a microgrant scheme to help businesses make age-friendly improvements.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Recruiting older workers can fill gaps in the labour market 

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Tracy Riddell
23 Apr 2025

The hospitality, travel and leisure sectors offer positive employment opportunities for workers over 50, but those sectors are not always capitalising on this pool of older talent.

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Centre for Ageing Better to host UKRI research Fellow

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Centre for Ageing Better
23 Apr 2025

The Centre for Ageing Better has been selected to host a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Fellow, whose remit will be to improve policy and decision making on healthy ageing.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Latest Labour Market stats show government needs to show greater ambitions for older workers

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Centre for Ageing Better
15 Apr 2025

The Centre for Ageing Better is part of a group of organisations is calling on the government to be more proactive in getting more older people into work if it wants to meet its manifesto pledges around economic growth.

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Understanding differing experiences of ageing

Blog
Stephen James
9 Apr 2025

The week before last, Ageing Better were among a partnership of organisations that delivered The Age-Friendly Futures Summit in Manchester, bringing together around 250 leaders, policymakers, practitioners and researchers from the UK and around the globe.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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How ageism shapes the design of our communities

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Natalie Turner
8 Apr 2025

A new parliamentary report states that ageism is “widespread and culturally embedded” in the UK.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

Revisiting digital participation as a prerequisite of digital inclusion
Hänninen, R., The Information Society
This global study examines how digital participation is understood, especially in later life.
Can social prescribing reach patients most in need? Patterns of (in)equalities in referrals in a representative cohort of older adults in England
Fancourt D, and Steptoe A., Perspectives in Public Health
This study examines social prescribing for older adults in England.
HIV and long lives: new challenges for high-income countries
International Longevity Centre
This report examines the experiences of older adults living with HIV in high-income countries.

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