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A home with a very steep set of stairs

Charities and housing organisations call on public to back proposals for better homes

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Centre for Ageing Better
4 Nov 2020

The Housing Made for Everyone (HoME) coalition is calling for urgent action to tackle the UK’s accessible housing crisis by raising the mandatory building standards.

  • Homes
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UK’s damaging views on ageing revealed in new report analysing language used across society

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Centre for Ageing Better
3 Nov 2020

Language used across society to describe ageing and older people risks ‘damaging UK’s social fabric’, our new report says.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Hackney skyline

Windrush & Diversity: Stories of a Hackney Generation

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30 Oct 2020

A collection of booklets and podcasts from Hackney CVS have helped to record and celebrate the diversity of Hackney.

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Healthy homes

The need for healthy homes

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23 Oct 2020

Town and Country Planning Association's Healthy Homes Act sets out to create a clear definition of what a healthy home should be and to bring in a law that would require all homes to meet this standard.

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Guide launched to help community organisations future-proof their volunteer base in wake of COVID-19

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Centre for Ageing Better
22 Oct 2020

The guide will help voluntary organisations mobilise and engage a more diverse range of over 50s volunteers, including those who typically face barriers to getting involved in their communities.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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The rise in entrepreneurialism among older workers post COVID-19

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Stuart Lewis
19 Oct 2020

Starting up your own business at any stage of life is not an easy task, but when compared with the alternatives, it appears that increasing numbers of talented over 50s are deciding to invest in themselves.

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Lockdown boosted neighbourliness and trust, according to new study

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Centre for Ageing Better
16 Oct 2020

People feel more trusting of their neighbours and more people now say they have someone to count on to help them out as a result of lockdown, new data reveals.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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innovation of ageing

How innovation can facilitate a better quality of life

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14 Oct 2020

The Rayne Foundation, The Tudor Trust, The Dulverton Trust and The John Ellerman Foundation have been collaborating to create scalable and sustainable ways of improving the lives of those in later life.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

‘The boots will be on the coffin!’: multiple meanings of ageing for older people playing walking football
Thomas, G. M., Ageing and Society
24 Apr 2024
This paper looks at how older people reflect on the meaning of ageing whilst participating in sports and leisure activities. Based on interviews with 65 adults over the age of 50 living in the UK, it…
Subjective social status across the past, present, and future: status trajectories of older adults
Kuball, T. and Jahn, G., European Journal of Ageing
23 May 2024
This paper outlines older adult’s views of their own subjective social status at a number of time points across the life course from 10 years past to 10 years into the future, using survey data from…
Reablement, Rehabilitation, Recovery: Everyone’s Business
The British Geriatrics Society
15 May 2024
This report outlines changes needed to improve rehabilitative care for older people in the UK. Providing 12 key recommendations, this report calls for greater investment in and prioritisation of…

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