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Centre for Ageing Better
1 Oct 2017

Contributing to communities infographics

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Thriving together: How hospitality can support older people to age well in the community

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Lorna Wang
11 Nov 2024
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The A-Z of International Day of Older People 2024 activities

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LGA Conference Fringe Session: Preparing for an ageing population – what can local authorities do?

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Let’s celebrate local community volunteers

International Volunteers Day is a great opportunity to celebrate the diverse contributions people make in their community.

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Using creativity to improve health and wellbeing in later life

An age-friendly cultural exchange in the Netherlands took place, where successes and challenges were shared by colleagues and cultural visits were had.

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Charities risk running out of volunteers

Volunteering needs to be flexible enough to fit around changes to people’s lives, like ill health, bereavement or the need to care for loved ones.

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What makes the glue that keeps our communities connected?  

At Ageing Better, we want to ask how we can ensure that we live in connected communities as we age.

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Older Indian male volunteer in hospital setting.

Government funding to help pilot, develop and share better ways of supporting older volunteers

The Centre for Ageing Better will award Government funding of up to £250,000 to pilot better ways to sustain lifelong involvement in voluntary and community activities and attract more diverse older volunteers.

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Age-friendly and inclusive volunteering fund

The Age-friendly and inclusive volunteering fund has been set up to develop and document models of good practice in supporting older people’s voluntary and community activity.

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Demonstrating the value of voluntary actions 

For many people, being shown the community impact of their activity is extremely important. 

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Nurturing and supporting people to do more in their community means doing more on inclusion 

The review of community contributions in later life finds that some people can be shut out of ‘formal’ volunteer roles.

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