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Centre for Ageing Better
30 Nov 2023

Living in a cold home: A Good Home Network briefing

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Healthy homes: NHS initiatives to improve health by improving homes

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Centre for Ageing Better
19 Nov 2024
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The Impact of Poor Quality Housing on Older People

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

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Fixing England’s dangerous homes would deliver more than £1.5 billion in annual health and social care savings

New analysis reveals how poor quality housing is incurring huge costs and pressures on the NHS and social care.

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It is time to act on the silent scandal of nearly 4 million dangerous homes

We urgently need a national strategy to tackle the poor quality of the country’s homes, writes our Chief Executive Dr Carole Easton OBE.

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Housing quality and people’s health: making the case for improving health through housing

Homes should be places of warmth and safety but for millions of people, their homes cause falls, asthma, heart problems, joint problems, and many more conditions. Understand how local areas are creating joint solutions across the health, care and housing sectors.

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New Ageing Better campaign calls on government to halve number of unsafe homes within next decade to improve nation's health

Newly launched Safe Homes Now campaign with eight other charities says it is time to end the scandal of 8 million people living in dangerous homes that pose significant risk to inhabitants’ health.

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Safe Homes Now

No one should have to live in a home that damages their health, yet it is the norm for far too many people in England today. We’re leading a national campaign to fix unsafe homes.

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Home improvement is the ‘triple dividend’ the UK desperately needs

Whoever gains the keys to Number 10 at the next election knows they will have limited resources to work with to fix a range of large-scale, long-term challenges the country faces.

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The voices behind the numbers

Our new State of Ageing report details how older people from some Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds are more likely to live in poverty, poor housing and poorer health than average.

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Numbers of impoverished older people from minority ethnic backgrounds set to soar without urgent action

Our newly published State of Ageing report details how older people from certain ethnic minority backgrounds are currently much more likely to be living in poor health, deep poverty and inadequate housing than the national average.

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