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Lessons from Greater Manchester: Supporting the development of age-friendly homes at a local level

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Dr Mark Hammond
21 Aug 2024

Since its inception in 2016, the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub has been responsible for delivering on Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s (GMCA) ambition to be an age-friendly city region

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How to encourage greater participation in events for the International Day of Older People

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Jessica Duffy
20 Aug 2024

The Good Practice Mentors offer support to organisations who are working with older people to help reduce instances of loneliness and social isolation.

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Next Steps: Building on solutions for the housing crisis affecting older People

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David Done
13 Aug 2024

In a previous Ageing Better blog, housing sector expert David Done detailed the wide-ranging implications of poor-quality housing on an ageing population.

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Averting a pensions crisis

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Catherine Foot
9 Aug 2024

Less than three weeks after winning the election, the Labour government had announced a new pensions review, promising that it would look, among other things, at ‘retirement adequacy’.

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Organisations join forces to urge Chancellor to reconsider Winter Fuel Payment decision

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Centre for Ageing Better
2 Aug 2024

The Centre for Ageing Better has joined more than 20 organisations in signing a letter to Rachel Reeves calling on the UK government to halt the Winter Fuel Payment change announced this week.

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State of Ageing: Eight stats that show the diverse experience of getting older in the UK today

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Aideen Young
1 Aug 2024

If you want to know what it is like getting older in the UK, ignore assumptions and look at the facts.

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Vital government raises pension credit take-up if it is to go through with winter fuel payments reform

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30 Jul 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced yesterday that up to 10 million pensioners will no longer be eligible for winter fuel payments in a cost-cutting move.

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The missing 250,000 homes: Campaigners count the cost of two years of inaction on minimum accessibility standards

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29 Jul 2024

New analysis from the Centre for Ageing Better reveals it would take 44 years to meet the current demand for accessible and adaptable housing in England at the current rate of construction.

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Latest research from others

No Progress? Tackling long-term insecure work
The Work Foundation
This briefing examines how work quality impacts long-term employment outcomes, focusing on insecure work.
Fostering intergenerational harmony: Can good quality contact between older and younger employees reduce workplace conflict?
Drury, L., and Fasbender, U., Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
This UK study examined conflicts between older and younger co-workers and ways to reduce them.
On the limits of communication: The liminal positioning of older adults and processes of self-ageism and ageism
Schuurman, B., et al., Journal of Aging Studies
This study, based in the Netherlands, explores experiences of (self-)ageism among recent retirees.

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