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Flexible working

What are the benefits of flexible working?

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Patrick Thomson
13 Oct 2020

A recent report revealed almost three quarters of UK employees aged 55 or over reported in a survey that they either already work flexibly or want to.

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Lincolnshire Partnership Manager

New partnership launched to improve later life in Lincolnshire

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Centre for Ageing Better
12 Oct 2020

Lincolnshire and the Centre for Ageing Better announce an exciting new partnership to ensure more people in the county enjoy later life.

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Barclays redundancy

New pilot project to support West Midlands workers at risk of redundancy

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Centre for Ageing Better
12 Oct 2020

The Centre for Ageing Better’s project, funded by Barclays, will test new ways to retrain and reskill older workers at risk of redundancy.

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Greater Manchester

Valuable not vulnerable – how Greater Manchester is changing the narrative on ageing

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Nicola Waterworth 1
1 Oct 2020

Our strategic partner, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, has launched a campaign for International Day of Older Persons, highlighting the crucial roles older people have played in the city region during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Work

We cannot allow the inequalities of 2020 to become entrenched in later life

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Emily Andrews
30 Sep 2020

Longer working lives can benefit our individual finances and the economy – but Coronavirus risks setting back the progress we've made.

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Felxible working

Flexible working crucial to supporting older workers and boosting the COVID-19 recovery

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Centre for Ageing Better
29 Sep 2020

We've launched a new toolkit for employers on the steps they can take to introduce and manage flexible working in their workplaces.

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Good Home Inquiry

COVID-19 has shone a light on our non-decent homes

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David Orr
22 Sep 2020

Improving England's housing stock will have massive benefits for people's safety and health, but also have a positive impact on the economy and the strain on the NHS.

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Good Home Inquiry

Millions in cold and damp homes could be at greater risk of COVID-19 this winter

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Centre for Ageing Better
22 Sep 2020

About 1 in 5 homes in England do not meet the national standard to be considered in decent condition. These are more likely to be lived in by people identified as most at risk from the virus, new report shows.

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Latest research from others

Dynamics of unmet need for social care in England
Vlachantoni, A., et al., Ageing and Society
19 May 2024
This study explores patterns of unmet social care need amongst people aged 65 and over living in England. Based on an analysis of English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) data, this study shows…
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…
The communication of State Pension age increases for women born in the 1950s
House of Commons
15 May 2024
This briefing provides an overview of changes to the pension entitlement of UK women born in the 1950s, and an update on the related Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) investigation.

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