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An introduction to Age-friendly Communities

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Centre for Ageing Better
15 May 2024

What is an Age-friendly Community? Learn about the WHO Age-friendly Communities framework and what can be achieved through becoming one.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Finding funds, fixing homes: innovation in local authority provision of home improvement grants and loans

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Centre for Ageing Better
10 Jul 2024

Finance is a fundamental barrier facing people who want to make improvements to their home. Learn how local areas are tailoring financial solutions to meet the needs of their residents.

  • Homes
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Building effective local home improvement services: Good Home Hubs

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Centre for Ageing Better
2 Oct 2024

What is a Good Home Hub? Learn about this comprehensive model for home improvement services and how it can benefit people living in your area.

  • Homes
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Housing quality and people’s health: making the case for improving health through housing

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Centre for Ageing Better
20 Nov 2024

Homes should be places of warmth and safety but for millions of people, their homes cause falls, asthma, heart problems, joint problems, and many more conditions. Understand how local areas are creating joint solutions across the health, care and housing sectors.

  • Homes

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Health and work: Healthy ageing webinars

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Centre for Ageing Better
25 Jun 2021

This webinar explored the importance of health, work and ageing, and what employers and government need to do to ensure that all employees are supported at work.

  • Age-friendly Movement
  • Work
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Developing Age-friendly Communities

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Centre for Ageing Better
23 Jun 2021

How can I get started with developing an Age-friendly Community? This half-day training will explore how communities can embed an Age-friendly Communities approach, taking you through the first stage of the Age-friendly Communities Framework.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Understanding the changing patterns of work at older ages

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Centre for Ageing Better
17 Jun 2021

Following new research by the IFS, this live-stream explored some of the challenges older workers and jobseekers might face when the furlough scheme is wound down.

  • Work
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Active travel: Healthy ageing webinars

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Centre for Ageing Better
29 Apr 2021

How do we create active travel environments for older adults?

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Good homes for all – who pays?

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Centre for Ageing Better
26 Apr 2021

A webinar hosted by the Good Home Inquiry, which explored how to overcome the financial challenges people experience when attempting to improve their homes.

  • Homes
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Age inclusive workforces: the business case and putting it into practice

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Centre for Ageing Better
22 Apr 2021

Together with the OECD, employers and thought leaders, we explored how we can maximise the benefits of multi-generational workforces as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Event: Ageing in a rural place

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Centre for Ageing Better
15 Apr 2021

This webinar explored the challenges and opportunities for people ageing in rural and coastal places, the impact of the pandemic on rural communities and the action required to support their recovery.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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Housing and our health and wellbeing: Healthy ageing webinars

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Centre for Ageing Better
31 Mar 2021

How can we identify and support people whose health is being affected by poor housing to access funds to repair and improve their homes?

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

Influence of social determinants of health in the evolution of the quality of life of older adults in Europe
Llorens-Ortega, R., et al. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
13 Mar 2024
This study investigates how social factors affect the quality of life of older adults in Europe, focusing on differences between men and women.
Ageism revisited
Ribera-Casado, J-M., European Geriatric Medicine
29 Feb 2024
This paper examines age discrimination, emphasising its prevalence and detrimental impacts on older people.
Systematic review of factors influencing loneliness in older-adult migrants
Ruan, Y-X., Cheung, M-C., Aging & Mental Health
9 Apr 2024
This review outlines factors that influence the loneliness experienced by older-adult migrants

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