Resources relating to Economy

Across the UK, local businesses are overlooking one of their most significant and growing customer groups: older people.

This briefing outlines how Good Home Hubs could be funded and scaled up across the country.

Our comprehensive health and work evidence review finds older people with a long-term health condition more likely to be out-of-work than younger peers.

Ageing Better’s new report found that by removing the most serious risks to people’s health and safety from the country’s poorest quality homes where the head of household is 55 or over would result in savings to the NHS of nearly £600 million per year.

This report outlines the decline in national investment in home improvement, the consequences and what we need to do next.

Here are the three briefings Ageing Better has produced with the cross-party think tank Demos, supported by Dunhill Medical Trust, exploring the multiple benefits from improving the safety, heating and accessibility of homes.

This paper gives an overview of the harm that ageism causes to both individuals and society.

Partnering with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and DWP, this project looks at developing effective approaches to providing employment support for over 50s.