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The Road to Recovery: Can we 'Build Back Better'?

Join our webinar as the panel explores how we can recover from the pandemic, so we can all age better.

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Ageing Better's response to the COVID-19 pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact us all, Ageing Better remains as committed as ever to its mission of improving later lives.

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Age-friendly Communities and COVID-19

We've gathered some examples and resources from age-friendly communities in response to COVID-19.

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Featured publications

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Home and dry: The need for decent homes in later life

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Centre for Ageing Better
5 Mar 2020

The Centre for Ageing Better and Care & Repair England's new report reveals that over two million over-55s are living in a home that endangers their health or wellbeing.

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The State of Ageing in 2019: Adding life to our years

Publication
Centre for Ageing Better
13 Mar 2019

Our report gives a snapshot of ageing today and in the future, focusing on the areas we know make a difference to people’s later lives.

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Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework

Publication
Centre for Ageing Better
27 Feb 2019

The Centre for Ageing Better developed the Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework, which is intended to stimulate ideas and provide thinking points for the ISCF.

Our work

Being in fulfilling work

Fulfilling work

Our goal is 1 million more people aged 50 to 69 in fulfilling work by 2022.

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Safe and accessible homes

Our goal is that by 2030 there will be 1 million fewer homes defined as hazardous and half of all new homes will meet accessibility standards. 

Keeping physically active

Healthy ageing

Our goal is for people to have five more years free of preventable disability, and to reduce the gap between the richest and poorest people in disability-free life expectancy by 2035.

Contributing to communities

Connected communities

Our goal is to see an increase in the proportion of people aged 50 and over who report they feel they strongly belong to their neighbourhood.

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Other areas of work

Beyond our main areas of work, we work on broader issues that are important in changing society to ensure we have good later lives.

Kevin Berry, Age-friendly Champion, Isle of Wight

Age-friendly Communities

We want more people to live in age-friendly communities.