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Now is the perfect time to unleash the full potential of flexible working

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Carole Easton
9 May 2022

This week’s Queen’s Speech is the optimum moment for the UK Government to make good on its commitments to flexible working and Carers’ Leave.

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Age-friendly Communities can help ‘Level Up’ places for everyone

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Natalie Turner
27 Apr 2022

The Levelling Up White Paper has made closing the gap in healthy life expectancy one of its missions. This is how Age-friendly Communities can help.

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Creating age-friendly homes in Greater Manchester

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Nicola Waterworth 1
12 Apr 2022

We look at the work Greater Manchester have been doing to create a shared vision and ambition to increase the supply of age-friendly homes.

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Why it's time to invest in our homes

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David Orr
6 Apr 2022

The scrapping of VAT on home energy efficiency in the recent Spring Budget Statement is a welcome move – but it doesn’t go far enough.

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Ageing Better and NCVO partner on age-friendly inclusive volunteering

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Centre for Ageing Better
5 Apr 2022

We're partnering with the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) to help increase age-friendly inclusive volunteering in England.

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Age-friendly volunteering emerging from the pandemic

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Sarah Wilkinson
5 Apr 2022

Formal volunteering shifted in different ways among age groups throughout the pandemic, with informal volunteering rising considerably.

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Creating an age-friendly recovery

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Dr Thiago Hérick de Sá
1 Apr 2022

Age-friendly cities and communities were well-placed to respond to the pandemic. Encouraging communities to join the Network is more important than ever before.

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The hidden secret behind avoidable deaths

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Carole Easton
31 Mar 2022

Omitting over 75s in preventable death statistics has worrying implications for the value we place on older people’s lives.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

Loneliness and social isolation of ethnic minority / immigrant older adults
Joshi, M., Finney, N., and Hale, J. M., Ageing and Society
4 Jun 2024
This paper outlines evidence on experiences of loneliness amongst ethnic minority / immigrant older adults.
Barriers and motivators to undertaking physical activity in adults over 70
Kilgour, A., et al., Age and Ageing
22 Apr 2024
This systematic review summarises international evidence on barriers and motivators to physical activity amongst adults aged 70 and over. Drawing on 73 studies, it identifies key barriers such as…
Inequalities in caregiving strain during the COVID-19 pandemic: conceptual framework and review of the empirical evidence
Schmitz, A., et al., International Journal of Care and Caring
23 May 2024
This paper summarises findings on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on informal carers for older people.

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