What areas does the Centre for Ageing Better focus on?
As well as being a centre of excellence on ageing, we have chosen to work intensively in three areas where we have accrued deep expertise and knowledge and where we can make the biggest difference:
- Ensuring fair access to decent work in our 50s and 60s
- Developing age-friendly homes and communities
- Tackling ageism and the impact of other forms of discrimination in later life.
All our work is supported by a network of ‘experts by experience’, ensuring the voices and perspectives of older people are at the heart of what we do.
Our three areas of work
Ageism and inequality
We are tackling the huge inequality in people's experience of older age and helping to change the way we all think and talk about ageing.
Work
We influence policy and practice so that everyone has access to good jobs that are right for them, through their 50s and 60s.
Homes and communities
Our homes and communities are crucial in helping us to live healthy, independent and sociable lives - which in turn reduces pressure on over-stretched health and care systems.