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The future of transport might not look the way we expect

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18 Sep 2019

Our recent Ageing and mobility report explores how the current transport system is complex and fragmented, leading to barriers in innovation and collaboration to support healthier later lives.

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Why I wrote When We’re 64

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16 Sep 2019

When We’re 64 arms readers with the knowledge, tips and pointers to think very differently about the amazing opportunity that a long life can bring.

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Ageing Better responds to new DWP stats on over-50s in work

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12 Sep 2019

We respond to new analysis showing that, for the first time, the employment rate for women aged 60-64 is higher than the economically inactive rate.

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Research Roundup Blog - Summer Special

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12 Sep 2019

A list rounding up the most engaged articles from our Research & Policy e-newsletter from the first half of the year.

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Are we being overly optimistic about optimism?

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10 Sep 2019

Research into links between life expectancy and outlook on life made headlines last month, but there are other factors that make more of a difference.

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When We're 64 – Your Guide to a Great Later Life

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10 Sep 2019

New book from Louise Ansari, published by Green Tree – Bloomsbury, gives the essential guide to making sure you have a fabulous later life.

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Response to new guidelines from the Chief Medical Officer

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9 Sep 2019

New guidelines recommend that older adults should do muscle strengthening activities on at least two days a week to improve balance in later life.

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Older women's health in the workplace

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5 Sep 2019

With more women working for longer, it's crucial that employers are able to support the health needs of their older women workers.

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Latest research from others

When to care? A MAIHDA analysis of intersectional inequalities in the age of caregiving onset using European longitudinal data
Alonso-Perez, E., et al., Ageing & Society
This study examines when adults aged 50+ in Europe begin providing family care and how timing differs across intersecting identities.
Pensions and economic status among the 1958 birth cohort prior to reaching State Pension age
Department for Work and Pensions
This UK report examines retirement outcomes for people born in 1958.
Voices of Concern: The reality of health and social care for older people in Northern Ireland
Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland
This Northern Irish report explores older people’s experiences of current pressures to help shape the Commissioner’s priorities.

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