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Pilot programme announced to help over 50s back to work

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Centre for Ageing Better
27 Feb 2020

The Centre for Ageing Better, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the Department of Work & Pensions have announced the ‘Greater Manchester Employment Support for Over 50s’ pilot programme to tackle worklessness in over 50s.

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Focusing on the fix: tailoring approaches to help over-50s back to work

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Jagdeep Soor 1
27 Feb 2020

Older jobseekers in the Greater Manchester area will be at the centre of a new pilot being developed to help over 50s to rejoin the workforce.

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Stretching out - the future of flexible, sustainable work

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Patrick Thomson
26 Feb 2020

In the UK the average worker already works 32 hours a week. But the average masks a division for some who would prefer more hours and others less.

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How can local leadership create better later lives for us all?

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Ellie Gotay
26 Feb 2020

How can the right local leadership make the changes urgently needed for better later lives?

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Ageing Better responds to decreasing life expectancy figures

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Centre for Ageing Better
25 Feb 2020

The Marmot Review 2020 reveals that life expectancy has failed to increase for the first time in more than 100 years, and for the poorest 10% of women it has actually declined.

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Local leadership can create better later lives for us all

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Natalie Turner
21 Feb 2020

Leadership is needed locally as well as nationally if we’re all going to benefit equally from our longer lives. A key source of that leadership must be local government.  

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Today's children set to reach retirement age in ill-health and disability

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Centre for Ageing Better
20 Feb 2020

New analysis from Ageing Better shows unacceptable inequalities in how long, and how healthily, babies born today in different parts of England can expect to live.

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Post-Brexit, we will need our older workers more than ever

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Emily Andrews
19 Feb 2020

The government’s post-Brexit immigration plans will bring new urgency to employers’ efforts to retain their workers for as long as they can. Our Age-Friendly Five shows how this can be done.

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Latest research from others

Transforming gyms into community Musculoskeletal (MSK) Hubs: Mobilising the UK leisure sector to deliver inclusive, accessible, personalised and gamified health services for older adults with MSK conditions
ukactive and partners
This report shares findings from a pilot study on the ‘MSK Hubs’, an initiative introduced in leisure centres, to evaluate its potential for public roll-out.
A wellbeing cost-benefit analysis of raising the state pension age
Frayman, D., Centre for Economic Performance
This paper examines proposed increases in the state pension age in the UK.
Scottish Housing Day 2024
Scottish Housing Day Partners
This report addresses the importance of housing in supporting people through all life stages.

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