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#AgeProud

Join the campaign challenging the outdated, ageist attitudes that prevent too many of us from making the most of our longer lives

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Ageing Better leads over 60 organisations in setting out shared vision for healthy ageing

Centre for Ageing Better
16 Oct 2019

Ageing Better and Public Health England (PHE), along with over 60 organisations, will work together to make England the best country in the world to grow old.

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When We're 64

When We're 64 – Your Guide to a Great Later Life

Centre for Ageing Better
10 Sep 2019

New book from Louise Ansari, published by Green Tree – Bloomsbury, gives the essential guide to making sure you have a fabulous later life.

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Featured publications

Ageing and mobility

Ageing and mobility: A grand challenge

Publication
Centre for Ageing Better
18 Sep 2019

Mobility and transport are key in helping people to remain healthy, active and connected in later life. This report explores how the current transport system is complex and fragmented, leading to barriers in innovation and collaboration to support healthier later lives.

Mid-life support

Mid-life support: Insights for employers

Publication
Centre for Ageing Better
29 Aug 2019

This report highlights the importance of providing support to employees in mid-life as a way of helping them stay in work for longer if they want to, plan for what they will need in retirement, and think ahead about their future needs.

Raising the bar on strength and balance: The importance of community-based provision

Raising the bar on strength and balance: The importance of community-based provision

Publication
Centre for Ageing Better
12 Feb 2019

This report presents the models of delivery, issues, barriers and innovative solutions of community-based strength and balance programmes.

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.

UK Network of Age-friendly Communities

UK Network of Age-friendly Communities

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