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Centre for Ageing Better
1 Oct 2017

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Safe Homes Now Spotlight: Black and Minority Ethnic Communities

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Centre for Ageing Better
13 Mar 2025
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People should not have to live like this: Time to end the poor-quality housing crisis

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Safe Homes Now Spotlights: Cold homes

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As society ages, good-quality homes are needed more than ever before

This week the government's cross-department Older People’s Housing Taskforce released its report on the housing options available to us as we age, highlighting the need to improve the quantity and quality of our homes.

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Healthy homes: NHS initiatives to improve health by improving homes

This report aims to raise awareness of the links between health and homes and provide examples of local systems that have developed cross-sector initiatives to improve residents’ health by tackling problems in the home.

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The Impact of Poor Quality Housing on Older People

The Safe Homes Now campaign was launched earlier this year to highlight the consequences of England’s poor-quality housing for a range of different groups and persuade the UK government to fix this hidden housing crisis.

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Safe Homes Now Spotlight: Older people in poor-quality housing

Unsafe and poor-quality homes have serious health consequences for millions of people in Britain today.

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Fighting back against falls at home

Falls are the biggest causes of accidents in the home and place huge pressures on health services.

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Removing serious fall hazards from older people’s homes would save NHS £330m a year

New analysis conducted for the Centre for Ageing Better by built environment experts BRE reveals the huge financial repercussions to the NHS and society from falls in the home.

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Summer heatwaves threatening health of up to 3 million older people

Research from the Centre for Ageing Better shows that older people living in properties between 45 and 80 years old are most likely to experience the worst effects of heatwaves.

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Lessons from Greater Manchester: Supporting the development of age-friendly homes at a local level

Since its inception in 2016, the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub has been responsible for delivering on Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s (GMCA) ambition to be an age-friendly city region

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