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Major decisions about pensions need to be delayed pending a thorough review

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Centre for Ageing Better
18 Dec 2024

Dr Carole Easton OBE warns of risking rise in pensioner poverty if further pension reforms are rushed through at the Work and Pensions Committee in Parliament this morning.

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Health inequalities in older age between richest and poorest are widening

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Centre for Ageing Better
17 Dec 2024

New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) highlight growing inequality in healthy life expectancies between regions and more local areas.

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New Year resolutions to make a more age-friendly world

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16 Dec 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, we turn our attention to the new year and the good intentions for 2025.

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Crucial that older people’s commissioner has sufficient powers, Ageing Better CEO tells parliamentary committee

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Centre for Ageing Better
12 Dec 2024

Dr Carole Easton OBE was speaking at the Women and Equalities Committee in Parliament yesterday afternoon.

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Investing to support people with health conditions and improving their wellbeing and financial security

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12 Dec 2024

One of the government’s first acts on taking the keys to Downing Street was the removal of Winter Fuel Payments for all pensioners.

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How to ensure flexible working works for employers and employees

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John Kiernan
11 Dec 2024

Employees have gained new flexible working rights this year and the Labour government are set to outlay plans to expand those rights further.

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The government’s major employment support reforms could make a major difference to workers in their 50s and 60s…if they really want it to

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Emily Andrews
3 Dec 2024

The government recently published proposals to reform employment, health and skills support to tackle economic inactivity and support people into good work in the form of its Get Britain Working Again White Paper.

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As society ages, good-quality homes are needed more than ever before

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Christos Tuton
28 Nov 2024

This week the government's cross-department Older People’s Housing Taskforce released its report on the housing options available to us as we age, highlighting the need to improve the quantity and quality of our homes.

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Latest research from others

Workplace discrimination statistics in 2025
Ciphr
This report examines workplace discrimination in the UK.
Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in activities of daily living disability-free life expectancy in England
Davies, L., et al., The Lancet Healthy Longevity
This study looks at how socioeconomic inequality affects the chances of living longer without a disability among older people in the UK.
Supporting Older Men’s Social Participation
Cowen, K., et al., Journal of Men’s Studies
This study explores facilitators and barriers of social participation among older men.

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