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Senior figures appointed to transform later life across work, health, housing and communities

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21 Jun 2019

The Centre for Ageing Better has appointed heavyweights from key sectors to be Associate Directors, helping to deliver its vision of giving everyone a good later life.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Long-term thinking needed to give everyone a good later life

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20 Jun 2019

A new report from Resolution Foundation, supported by the Nuffield Foundation, provides an audit of the big generational living standards issues facing Britain.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Settle countryside

What works in rural areas?

Blog
17 Jun 2019

More than one in five local authorities are already reflecting the kind of numbers of older people we are expecting in 2080, with around 44% of their population over the age of 50.   

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Terraced housing

Ageing Better welcomes GMCA Local Industrial Strategy focus on over 50s

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13 Jun 2019

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has published its Local Industrial Strategy, with a focus on seizing the opportunities of an ageing population.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Older men

How services can reach older men

Blog
12 Jun 2019
4 min read

Older men can often be more lonely or isolated than others. For charities that aim to make communities more connected, they can be the hardest to reach.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Older worker

Lifelong learning: unlocking the potential of older workers

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11 Jun 2019
4 min read

Too many older workers are being denied training and progression opportunities. This doesn't just hold them back, but our whole economy.

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Care home

More of us will need care in future – but who will care for the carers?

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11 Jun 2019

Around 7.6 million people work as unpaid carers for a family member or friend. Around a quarter of people aged 45-64 are carers, and even that’s an underestimate.

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Volunteer group

What's stopping you from volunteering?

Blog
7 Jun 2019

We need to make sure that volunteering opportunities are more broadly inclusive and remove barriers associated with race and ethnicity, disability, poverty and disadvantage.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

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.
Factors Influencing Food Choice of Older Black African Adults in the United Kingdom
Amenyah, S., et al, Sage Open Aging
This UK study explores what shapes the food choices of older African adults.
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.

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