Search for
in
Filter results by subjects:
Select a Topic to filter by Subject
Filter results by content type:
Resource
Centre for Ageing Better
1 Oct 2017

Strength and balance infographics

Download

Recommended

Link to content
Preview Group-of-older-people-taking-a-selfie

Latest life expectancy stats remain below pre-pandemic levels

News
Centre for Ageing Better
24 Oct 2024
Link to content

Age-friendly case study: Supporting older people to shape their environment through walk audits

Story
Link to content

Reaching out to rural areas: South Lanarkshire’s mobile Men’s Shed

Story

Recommended content

Filter by:
Link to content
Man wearing visual impairment glassses

Increasing the visibility of visual impairment in later life

Sight loss is often easily treated and managed, but the level of under-diagnosis is astonishing.

Link to content
Park bench

Ageing Better welcomes ‘Trailblazer Competition’ to drive innovation and transform later life

A new funding competition offers up to £40 million for solutions to help people enjoy five more years of healthy, independent life.

Link to content
Older Asian woman using resistance band

Response to new guidelines from the Chief Medical Officer

New guidelines recommend that older adults should do muscle strengthening activities on at least two days a week to improve balance in later life.

Link to content
Innovation and investment

Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Healthy ageing innovation and investment in the UK

This paper provides a discussion on where further investment and innovation is necessary and proposes how the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund can fill identified gaps and complement existing initiatives.

Downloadable Resource
Link to content
Home open day

Prevention Green Paper: how will we know if it’s working?

The Government’s Green Paper on prevention and public health will in part be measured by ‘disability-free life expectancy’. This has major implications for future health policy.

Link to content
Couple walking down street, Nottingham

Ageing Better welcomes Prevention Green Paper - but more radical change is needed

We welcome the government's Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s paper that looks to proactively improve the well-being of those approaching later life.

Link to content
Older neighbours

If we shoot for the moon, we can win healthier, longer lives for everyone

Fifty years ago, the US mobilised all of government and society in pursuit of a single goal: putting a man on the moon. Now, we need the same will and investment to be geared towards the challenge of healthy ageing.

Link to content
Care home

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

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.

Sign up to receive the latest news, research, policy updates and events about ageing.

Subscribe

Contact our team for more information

Contact us