Resources relating to Inequality

In this third spotlight by Ageing Better, Runnymede Trust, Race Equality Foundation and People’s Health Trust, we look at the disproportionate impact of poor-quality homes on people from Black and minority ethnic communities.

This report highlights the available evidence around how older people often have unequal access to local businesses and community settings.

At the Centre for Ageing Better we believe that in order to reduce the number of unsafe homes across England, we need improve the local offer in accessing support for people to improve their homes.

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

This toolkit is aimed at commissioners of employment and skills provision, who want to create and commission services that work better for people in their 50s, 60s and beyond.

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.

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 looks at the inclusion of older characters in British films over the last decade, how often they're included and how they're portrayed.