Blog
Anna Dixon
6 Mar 2017
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At 58, Janet started to suffer from a bad back. She started taking medication but the pain became so bad that she had to leave her job as a retail assistant.
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“I was taken aback when my back went out. It was the first time I ever thought about getting old – for me the good life is having a job again.”
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We are on average living much longer. The Government needs to urgently address how to provide care and support to a growing number of people.
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According to Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing, creativity is the top factor in whether people are happy in later life.
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Retirement is not necessarily the one-off event it used to be, but for many, it still marks a time of major change in later life.
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The 'New Old' exhibition at the Design Museum explores the role of new design in helping people to lead fuller, healthier and happier later lives.
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Keeping mentally active and engaged is important for wellbeing at any age, and it’s also a key part of what people want for a good later life.
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Matthew Taylor, the lead for a review of modern employment, has called for the improvement of the quality of work in the UK to become a new “national goal”.
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