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The Traitors’ Diane Carson Smashing Ageist Stereotypes

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Centre for Ageing Better
7 May 2025

The latest stage of the Age Without Limits campaign features a reality TV star taking a hammer and golf club to fragile household items.

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Mental health in older age

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Stephen James
1 May 2025

Ageing Better were among a partnership of organisations that delivered the recent 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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The age-friendly role of Business Improvement Districts

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Rebecca Bayliss
30 Apr 2025

There is huge untapped potential for Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) to play a pivotal role in making places more accessible and welcoming to us as we age.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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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.

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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.

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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

Latest research from others

Trajectories of job resources and the timing of retirement
Khawli, E., et al., Work, Aging and Retirement
This study examines how work resources, such as job autonomy, skill development and social recognition, influence the timing and trajectory of retirement.
Policies to help people manage defined contribution pension wealth through retirement
Institute for Fiscal Studies
This report, published in partnership with abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, explores what policies might help people manage their defined contribution pension wealth in later life.
Fuel Poverty in the UK
House of Commons
This report explores how fuel poverty has changed, and how levels and policies vary across the UK.

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